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Manage CA RS Maintenance

After CA RS maintenance packages have been downloaded, you can manage the maintenance in an existing SMP/E product installation environment.

Important! Before you start, update the error HOLDDATA in your software catalog. To do so, click Update Error HOLDDATA in the Actions section on the Software Catalog page. You can also set up the automatic error HOLDDATA download.

Note: While you are working with a particular SMP/E environment, the SMP/E environment is locked and other CA MSM users cannot perform any action against it. When the task finishes, or when you log out from CA MSM, or when your CA MSM session is inactive for more than 10 minutes, the lock releases.

The following installation modes are available:

Receive and Apply

Receives the CA RS maintenance and applies it to the selected target zone of the SMP/E environment.

Receive and Apply Check

Receives the CA RS maintenance and checks if the maintenance can be applied to the selected target zone of the SMP/E environment.

Receive, Apply Check, and Apply

Receives the CA RS maintenance, checks if the maintenance can be applied to the selected target zone of the SMP/E environment, and applies it if it can be applied.

Receive Only

Receives the CA RS maintenance.

Note: You can also manage CA RS maintenance to an SMP/E environment using the SMP/E Environments, CSI Information section. You can manage CA RS maintenance for any products in an SMP/E environment using the SMP/E Environments, Installed Product section.

Follow these steps:

1. Click the SMP/E Environments tab.

   A list of SMP/E environments existing in CA MSM appears.

   Note: If you select an SMP/E environment being used in CA MSM by another user, a notification message appears. You are prevented from performing any actions on the SMP/E environment. You can either wait until the notification message disappears and the SMP/E environment becomes available, or click Cancel to select another SMP/E environment.

2. Locate the SMP/E environment for the products whose CA RS maintenance you want to manage, click the Actions drop-down list to the right of the SMP/E environment, and select Upgrade CA RS Level.

   The CA RS Processing wizard opens to the Introduction step.

3. Review the information on this step, and click Next.

   A list of CA RS maintenance level appears.

4. Select the CA RS maintenance level that you want to upgrade the SMP/E environment to, and click Next.

   The SMP/E environment and its products and FMIDs are listed in the tree form. Those products and FMIDs that are ready to be upgraded are selected. The current CA RS level is identified for each product and FMID.

   Note: FMIDs that are not related to any product within the SMP/E environment are also listed and marked as not having ++FEATURE defined. You can select them for upgrading their CA RS level. If any products found do not have FMIDs related (no ++PRODUCT defined), they are listed and disabled by default.

5. Review and adjust the tree selections if necessary, and click Next.

   You are prompted to select SMP/E zones where CA RS maintenance packages should be installed.

6. Click Select Zones to review and adjust the zones where the CA RS maintenance will be installed, click OK to confirm the selection and return to the wizard, and click Next.

   The wizard displays a list of any CA RS maintenance packages missing from Software Catalog. These packages must be downloaded before proceeding with installation.

   Note: If a maintenance package is being applied to multiple zones, the package appears multiple times (once for each zone). Although there are multiple entries, the package will be downloaded once, but it will be applied to all of the necessary zones.

7. Do one of the following:
   • If there are no missing packages, click Next.
   • If there are missing packages, review them and click Download to start downloading them into Software Catalog. When the download is finished, click Next.

     Note: If there are a lot of missing packages, you can cancel the wizard and either download the maintenance packages manually on the Software Catalog page, or configure the automatic download using the SMP/E Environments page. After the download is completed, restart the wizard.

   The CA RS maintenance packages to install are listed.

8. Review and adjust the list if necessary, and click Next.

   You are prompted to select the installation mode.

9. Select the installation mode for the selected maintenance, and click Next.
   • If prerequisites exist and are available, review them and click Next. CA MSM installs these prerequisites as part of the process. If a prerequisite is not available, the wizard cannot continue. You must acquire the prerequisite and restart the process.
   • If HOLDDATA entries exist, review them, and click Next.

     Within the HOLDDATA displayed, error HOLDDATA may be reflected for those maintenance packages that CA Technologies has marked as PE (PTF in Error). These packages are automatically removed from the list passed to SMP/E for APPLY processing.

     GROUP statement processing handles dependencies automatically and may pull in PE SYSMOD from the GLOBAL zone if the corrective SYSMOD that resolves the HOLDREASON of the PE is being processed.

     Note: Click Export Table to open all HOLDDATA information for all selected maintenance in a separate browser window. This action is similar to running the LIST SYSMODS HOLDDATA command within your SMP/E environment.

   SMP/E work DDDEFs of SMPWRKx and SYSUTx, with their allocation parameters, are listed.

   Note: For more information about SMPWRKx and SYSUTx data sets, see the IBM SMP/E for z/OS Reference.

10. Review the allocation parameters of work DDDEFs, and edit them if necessary to verify, that sufficient space is allocated for them during the maintenance installation:

    Note: Changes in the allocation parameters apply to the current maintenance installation only.

    1. Click Override for a DDDEF to edit its allocation parameters.

       A pop-up window opens.

    2. Make the necessary changes, and click OK to confirm.

       The pop-up window closes, and the DDDEF entry is selected in the list indicating that the allocation parameters have been overridden.

    Note: To update allocation parameters for all DDDEFs automatically, click Retrieve DDDEF. CA MSM provides values for all DDDEFs based on the total size of the selected maintenance packages that you want to install. All DDDEF entries are selected in the list indicating that the allocation parameters have been overridden.

    • If you want to cancel a parameter update for any DDDEF, clear its check box.
    • If you want to edit the allocation parameters for a particular DDDEF after you automatically updated them using the Retrieve DDDEF button, click Override. Make the necessary changes and click OK to confirm, and return to the wizard.
11. (Optional) Review SMP/E work DDDEF and their allocation parameters for the selected SMP/E zones, and click Close to return to the wizard.

    Note: The allocation parameters can differ from the allocation parameters that you obtained using the Retrieve DDDEF button.

    Click Next.

    A summary of the task appears.

12. Review the summary, and click Install.

    A dialog that shows the progress of the task opens. When the task completes, you can click Show Results on the Progress tab to close this dialog. The task output browser opens and you can view the action details. Click Close to close the task output browser.

    Note: While a task is in progress, you can perform other work. You can click Hide to exit the dialog and view the task status later on the Tasks tab.

The task applies the CA RS maintenance. You can accept the applied maintenance (except USERMODs) using the SMP/E Environments, Maintenance tab.

Note: CA MSM prevents you from accepting USERMODs.