IBM z/OS Management Facility (z/OSMF)

IBM z/OSMF

IBM z/OSMF

The IBM z/OS Management Facility framework improves programmer productivity by using simplified, streamlined and automated tasks. This easier-to-use functionality reduces both programmer training time and the learning curve.

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  • 1.  Software Management - Adding new software instance doesn't always discover products in a SMP/e CSI

    Posted Mon June 27, 2022 11:39 PM
    Hi
    Just trying out the Software Management plugin.
    I have found that when adding a software instance the plugin doesn't always successfully detect the products that are contained with an SMP/E CSI.
    There are no error messages I can find that there was an issue in accessing or reading the SMP/E CSI or why it did not detect the product FMIDs within the CSI.
    Is there anything  I can do to determine why some of our CSI's seem to be incompatible with the plugin.  I have done a review of set-up of those CSI's that work and those that don't and can't see any difference in the way they are set-up.

    For example the plugin was able to detect the products within the CSI's for CICS TS 5.1, 5.2, 5.4, 5.5 but not those we use for 5.3 and 5.6.
    Similarly it was able to detect the products within the CSI's for DB2 V10 and V11, but not DB2 V12.
    Yes I know a lot of these product versions are end of life - but some of our development teams have requirements to continue to use. 

    Thanks

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    Andrew Davies
    Systems Programmer
    HCL technologies
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  • 2.  RE: Software Management - Adding new software instance doesn't always discover products in a SMP/e CSI

    Posted Tue June 28, 2022 08:45 AM

    Andrew, Software Management gets the Product and Feature information by analyzing the FMIDs installed in the target zones and the corresponding FEATURE and PRODUCT entries in the SMP/E global zone.  It is possible the global zones for CICS TS 5.3, 5.6, and DB2 V12 do not have the corresponding PRODUCT and FEATURE entries.  You can check this in SMP/E by using either the ISPF Query dialog or the LIST command, like this:

    SET BDY(GLOBAL).
    LIST PRODUCT FEATURE.

    Do you see the PRODUCT entries for the subject product releases?  If not, how did you acquire and install these product releases?  The ++PRODUCT and ++FEATURE statements are provided by IBM with the FMIDs in a CBPDO offering, and the PRODUCT and FEATURE entries are in the global zone provided by IBM in a ServerPac offering.  If you use either of these then the entries should be present.  However, if you are no longer using the global zone where those PRODUCT and FEATURE entries originated, then that probably explains why the entries are missing.

    On the other hand, if you do see the subject PRODUCT entries in the global zone, then we have a bit more debugging to do.  Let me know your findings and we can pursue further if necessary.



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    Kurt Quackenbush
    IBM, z/OS SMP/E and z/OSMF Software Management
    kurtq@us.ibm.com
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  • 3.  RE: Software Management - Adding new software instance doesn't always discover products in a SMP/e CSI

    Posted Tue June 28, 2022 08:48 AM
    And I forgot to mention, if your global or target zones for some reason do not have the necessary information to identify the Product and Features for the installed FMIDs, you can manually add that information to the Software Instance objects in z/OSMF.  Just use the Modify action and go to the Products tab to Add the subject products.

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    Kurt Quackenbush
    IBM, z/OS SMP/E and z/OSMF Software Management
    kurtq@us.ibm.com
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  • 4.  RE: Software Management - Adding new software instance doesn't always discover products in a SMP/e CSI

    Posted Wed June 29, 2022 03:50 AM

    Hi Kurt
    you were correct, the products that didn't having the product details retrieved were missing the PRODUCT and FEATURE entries from the SMP/e global zone.  I suspect that the effected products may have been installed using an early support version of the SMP/e package rather than the GA version.  We have experienced issues currently and in the past getting access to GA versions of the product from SHOPz till well past the GA date, so have probably installed from a GM copy of the SMP/e package so that our developers can verify compatibility with our products.   

    Anyway I added the entries into the effected global zones using some UCLIN, and now they are now being detected correctly by the Software Management plugin.

    Thanks for you quick response on this.



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    Andrew Davies
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