Hello CICS community,

I have inherited a CICS SYSPROG role and noticed that an older z/OS SMP MTS is included in our 'EXEC  DFHAUPLE' jobs used to assemble our CICS tables (SIT tables, etc.)  Is it recommended to include the z/OS SMP MTS in the CICS TS syslib for 'EXEC  DFHAUPLE' ?  Does anyone have any thoughts as to why this might have been included in the past?  I am thinking I should just remove the old z/OS SMP MTS as I reassemble tables but hesitate to just remove this without knowing the history of why it was included.

Appreciate any insight anyone may have!

Thank you,

Tracy

Hi Tracy. 

I can't tell you anything about your shop's DFHAUPLE history.  But I can tell you that DFHAUPLE is installed with CICS from yourcicshlq.CICS.SDFHINST(DFHAUPLE).  There are steps in it to make the tables you assemble SMP/E "controlled". (I'm not sure that's the right term.)   

Just a wild guess, but adding a DD for the MTS sounds like something I might do to try to get around a problem with the MTS definition in your CSI (because I didn't know how to correct it with UCLIN). 

I don't tell SMP/E anything about my CICS table assemblies.  On the rare chance applying service might mean they should be reassembled, I would just reassemble them myself.  

Here's the start of the proc we use: 

//DFHAUPLE PROC ASMBLR=ASMA90,                                   
//       LNKED=IEWL,                                             
//       RENTATT=NORENT,                                         
//       INDEX='CICSTS61.CICS',                                  
//       SYSLIB='our.SOURCE',            
//       LOADLIB='our.TS61.LOADLIB',                
//       OUTC='*',                                               
//       REG=4M,                                                 
//*      INDEX2='CICSTS61.CICS',      /* REPLACED W/LOADLIB      
//*      NAME=SDFHLOAD,                   /* REPLACED W/LOADLIB      
//       WORK=SYSDA                                              
//*      SMPPGM=GIMSMP,                 /* NOT USING SMP     
//*      GZONE='CICSTS61.GLOBAL.CSI',                            
//*      ZNAME=TZONE,                                            
//*      OPTIONS=CICSOPT                                         
//*                                                              
(All of the SMP-related parameters are commented out, because I've deleted the steps that use them.)

HTH.

Hello CICS community,

I have inherited a CICS SYSPROG role and noticed that an older z/OS SMP MTS is included in our 'EXEC  DFHAUPLE' jobs used to assemble our CICS tables (SIT tables, etc.)  Is it recommended to include the z/OS SMP MTS in the CICS TS syslib for 'EXEC  DFHAUPLE' ?  Does anyone have any thoughts as to why this might have been included in the past?  I am thinking I should just remove the old z/OS SMP MTS as I reassemble tables but hesitate to just remove this without knowing the history of why it was included.

Appreciate any insight anyone may have!

Thank you,

Tracy