5655-G44 IBM System Modification Program Extended (SMP/E) for z/OS V3.6
IBM United States Sales Manual
Revised: July 12, 2011.
| Program Number | VRM |
Announced |
Available |
Marketing Withdrawn |
Service Discontinued |
| 5655-G44 | 3.06.0 | 2011/07/12 | 2011/09/30 |
- | - |
| 5655-G44 | 3.05.0 | 2008/08/05 | 2008/09/26 |
- | - |
| 5655-G44 | 3.04.0 | 2005/07/26 | 2005/09/30 |
2008/09/26 | 2010/09/30 |
| 5655-G44 | 3.03.0 | 2004/08/10 | 2004/09/24 |
2005/09/30 | 2007/09/30 |
| 5655-G44 | 3.02.0 | 2003/05/13 | 2003/05/30 |
2004/09/24 | 2007/09/30 |
| 5655-G44 | 3.01.0 | 2001/09/11 | 2001/10/26 |
2003/05/30 | 2007/03/31 |
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- IBM SMP/E for z/OS V3.6 V360 (5655-G44)
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System Modification Program/Extended (SMP/E) is IBM's foundation for
software installation and maintenance on the IBM z/OS platform. Its role
is to consolidate and perform the low-level operations required to
install software products and service, while maintaining an inventory of
the software and service it is used to install.
SMP/E V3.6 is designed to support z/OSMF software deployment, and
provide two new reporting capabilities.
V3.6 of SMP/E includes:
- Support for the software deployment task provided with z/OS
Management Facility V1.13 (5655-S28) and z/OS V1.13 (5694-A01). The
z/OSMF Software Deployment is designed as a z/OSMF application and is
intended to make it easier to manage your software images by simplifying
and standardizing these deployment processes. z/OSMF Software Deployment
is simple and easy to use, and provides an IBM developed and supported
process for deploying software on z/OS.
- Two report enhancements
- The REPORT CROSSZONE and REPORT SYSMODS commands have been updated to
compare the contents of target and DLIB zones that are defined in
different global zones.
- A SYSMOD Comparison HOLDDATA Report is provided by REPORT
SYSMODS.
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SMP/E V3.6 is available under its own product number and also remains
a base element of z/OS. This allows customers who are licensed for a
currently supported release of z/OS to order and install the latest
release of SMP/E without having to upgrade their entire operating system.
The benefit can be that products other than z/OS can exploit the
packaging and installation enhancements in SMP/E without necessarily
having to install the prerequisites for a new level of the operating
system.
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SMP/E V3.6 is designed to support z/OSMF software deployment, and
provide two reporting capabilities.
Specifically, SMP/E V3.6 includes:
- Support for the new software deployment task provided with z/OS
Management Facility V1.13 (5655-S28) and z/OS V1.13 (5694-A01). The
z/OSMF software deployment task is designed to simplify cloning and
deployment for SMP/E-installed software.
- Two report enhancements:
- The REPORT CROSSZONE and REPORT SYSMODS commands have been updated to
compare the contents of target and DLIB zones that are defined in
different global zones. In prior releases of SMP/E, the zones to be
compared must be defined in a single global zone. This is intended to
help simplify cross-zone reporting.
- A SYSMOD Comparison HOLDDATA Report is provided by REPORT
SYSMODS. In addition to comparing the SYSMOD content of two target or
DLIB zones, SMP/E now is designed to extract SYSTEM and USER HOLD
information from the global zone to provide information about HOLDs that
are new. When the global zone does not contain all the data needed to
generate the report, a list of SYSMODs is provided so you can determine
whether any HOLD actions are needed. This report is intended to help
speed the deployment of maintenance upgrades by quickly identifying the
differences in HOLDs between the existing and updated zones.
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System Modification Program/Extended (SMP/E) is IBM's foundation for
software installation and maintenance on the IBM z/OS platform. Its role
is to consolidate and perform the low-level operations required to
install software products and service, while maintaining an inventory of
the software and service it is used to install.
SMP/E releases prior to SMP/E V3.5 cannot process the new FIXCAT
HOLDDATA. If you use a prior SMP/E release, you must install toleration
APAR IO07480 (PTF UO00700 for SMP/E V3.3 or UO00701 for SMP/E V3.4) to
allow those releases to silently ignore the FIXCAT HOLDDATA. Version 3.6
product will do away with this requirement.
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SMP/E is the software installation and maintenance tool for the IBM
z/OS platform. Its role is to consolidate and perform low-level
operations required to install software products and service. It can
also maintain an inventory of the software and service installed by
SMP/E. SMP/E V3.6 is designed to simplify various tasks for installing,
maintaining, and deploying software, with specific focus on supporting
z/OSMF software deployment, and provide two new reporting capabilities.
These reporting capabilities are intended to help simplify cross-zone
reporting and to help speed the deployment of maintenance upgrades by
quickly identifying the differences in HOLDs between the existing and
updated zones.
SMP/E V3.6 is available under its own product number and also remains
a base element of z/OS. This allows customers who are licensed for a
currently supported release of z/OS to order and install the latest
release of SMP/E without having to upgrade their entire operating system.
The benefit can be that products other than z/OS can exploit the
packaging and installation enhancements in SMP/E without necessarily
having to install the prerequisites for a new level of the operating
system.
SMP/E V3.6 runs in the same operating environments required by
z/OS V1.11 or later.
None.
Compatibility
SMP/E V3.6 runs on all supported z/OS releases.
If migrating from a release of SMP/E prior to SMP/E V3.5, then the
UPGRADE command allows you to determine when and if incompatible changes
should be made to SMP/E data sets. If the UPGRADE command is run, then
SMP/E V3.6 should be used to process the SMP/E data sets affected by that
command from then on. Such data sets may not be processed correctly by
previous releases of SMP/E.
SMP/E data sets, created and processed by earlier levels of SMP/E, can
be processed properly by SMP/E V3.6.
The following PTFs are designed to provide coexistence support and to
prevent corruption of SMPCSI data sets when such data sets are processed
by both SMP/E V3.6 and prior release levels of SMP/E.
SMP/E Release Coexistence PTF
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SMP/E V3.5 PTF UO01213
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Customer Responsibilities
The customer is responsible for evaluation, selection, and
implementation of security features, administrative procedures, and
appropriate controls in application systems and communication facilities.
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The announced program uses the security and auditability features of
the host hardware or operating system software.
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