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SMP/E Fundamentals

Duration: 5.0 Days

Overview:

Learn the skills necessary to use the current release of the System Modification Program/Extended (SMP/E) to install, and maintain OS/390 and its base elements, and optional features. Learn to define the SMP/E database and invoke SMP/E to add, modify, or replace system elements. Hands-on labs are incorporated to learn the necessary tasks to prepare the SMP/E environment and install products and services. Lab projects may be done in teams depending on number of attendees and location.

Who Should Take This Course:

System programmers with no prior SMP/E experience who plan to use SMP/E for system, or subsystem maintenance and installation.

What You Are Taught:

• Describe how SMP/E is used as a tool for system maintenance
• Interpret Modification Control Statements in a System Modification (SYSMOD)
• Create a Consolidated Software Inventory data base to support installation, and maintenance requirements
• Manage exception SYSMOD data
• Describe the use of the primary, and secondary data sets required by SMP/E
• Analyze output from SMP/E processing, and resolve commonly encountered problems
• Create a function SYSMOD from either a target zone and libraries, or distribution zone and libraries using the BUILDMCS command

Topics Include:

• SYSMOD Packaging
• Tracking Element Levels
• Consolidated Software Inventory
• RECEIVE/REJECT
• APPLY
• ACCEPT/RESTORE
• Execution Requirements
• JCLIN.GENERATE, BUILDMCS, and LINK
• LIST and REPORT Commands

Prerequisites:

Ability to:

• Use basic Job Control Language (JCL) statements, and describe the use of the following OS/390 Utility programs:
• High level assembler
• Linkage editor or Binder