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Step 1. Plan Your Installation

Follow these steps to obtain planning information for this product.

1. Establish the CA Mainframe VM Product Manager Environment.
2. Load Product Control Files and VMFINS PRODLIST.
3. Load and Generate the Planning Resource File.

Step 1.1 Establish the CA Mainframe VM Product Manager Environment

Follow these steps to establish the CA Mainframe VM Product Manager environment:

1. Log on to the VMANAGER user ID to access the CA Mainframe VM Product Manager environment.
2. Make the SERVLINK file available to the VMANAGER user ID. The SERVLINK file must be on a minidisk or Shared File System directory accessed as file mode A or C.

Note: The PROFILE EXEC on the VMANAGER user ID will access the disks or SFS directories needed for the CA Mainframe VM Product Manager environment as follows:

• The work disk is accessed as file mode A.
• The CA Mainframe VM Product Manager code is accessed as file mode B.
• The VMSES CA Software Inventory disk is accessed as file mode D.
• The CA Mainframe VM Product Manager database is accessed as file mode V.
• The CA Mainframe VM Product Manager Common disk is accessed as file mode W.
• The IBM VMSES system disk is accessed as file mode X.

Step 1.2 Load Product Control Files and VMFINS PRODLIST

The product control files include the following:

• Memo-to-Users file (MEMO)
• Product Parameter File (PPF)
• PRODPART file

The VMFINS PRODLIST contains a list of products on the installation envelope file.

The VMFINS command loads the control files to the Software Inventory Disk and creates the VMFINS PRODLIST file on the A-Disk. VMFINS loads from an envelope file. The envelope is either downloaded or retrieved from a DVD media.

Issue the following command to install the product control files and create the VMFINS PRODLIST file:

VMFINS INSTALL INFO ( NOMEMO ENV ZVME031A

NOMEMO

Specifies that the Memo-to-Users file is to be loaded, but VMSES/E will not issue a prompt to send it to the system printer. The CMS file type of this file is MEMO.

ENV

Indicates the value following this option keyword, which is the name of the envelope file for a specific product and release. For this release the CMS file name is ZVME031A. The CMS file type of this file is SERVLINK.

Step 1.3 Load and Generate the Planning Resource File

The planning resource file (PLANINFO) contains the planning information required to install the product. The VMFINS command with the PLAN option loads the necessary components from the envelope file and generates the PLANINFO file.

Files may be loaded either to minidisks or to Shared File System (SFS) directories using the following command:

VMFINS INSTALL PPF ppfname component ( PLAN NOMEMO ENV ZVME031A

PPF

Indicates the values following this keyword, and the values are the Product Parameter File (PPF) file name, followed by the name of a component defined in the PPF.

In most cases, to specify the ppfname use the name of the supplied PPF file for this release, which is ZVME031A. If you have created a PPF Override file, as described below and in the appendix Create Product Parameter File (PPF) Override, you specify the file name of your PPF override file.

For the component value, use VMDIRECT for installing on minidisks. Specify VMDIRECTSFS for installing on the Shared File System directories.

PLAN

Creates a PLANINFO file. This file contains product requisites and resources required for the product (user IDs, minidisks, and SFS directories). PLAN does not generate, allocate, or commit any system resources.

NOMEMO

Specifies that the Memo-to-Users file is to be loaded, but VMSES/E will not issue a prompt to send it to the system printer. The CMS file type of this file is MEMO.

ENV

Indicates the value following this option keyword, which is the name of the envelope file for a specific product and release. For this release the CMS file name is ZVME031A. The CMS file type of this file is SERVLINK.

During the execution of the VMFINS command, you are prompted to create an override for the ppfname and component you specified:

VMFINS2601R Do you want to create an override for :PPF ZVME031A
VMDIRECT :PRODID ZVME031A%VMDIRECT?
Enter 0 (No), 1 (Yes) or 2 (Exit)

Do one of the following:

• If you are accepting the default resource names and values, specify NO to the override prompt and skip to the next section.
• If you specify YES, you are presented with a panel for changing resource values such as disk owners, disk addresses, or SFS directory names. See the appendix Create Product Parameter File (PPF) Override for a sample of creating a PPF override.

Note: If you are not familiar with creating PPF overrides using VMFINS, you should review the Using the Make Override Panel section of the IBM VMSES/E Introduction and Reference before you continue.

More information:

Create Product Parameter File (PPF) Override