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z/OS UNIX System Services Planning
GA32-0884-00

Installing z/OS UNIX

Methods of installing z/OS UNIX

Setting up BPXOINIT as a started procedure

Establishing an /etc file system for a new release

Customizing z/OS UNIX

Setting up for full function mode

Prioritizing kernel work on your system

FILESYSTYPE

Restrictions on VIRTUAL(max)

Defining system limits

Defining system features

Customizing other members of SYS1.PARMLIB

Running a temporary file system in a colony address space

Steps for creating a cataloged procedure for a temporary file system

Establishing UNIX security

Steps for preparing RACF

Using RACF with z/OS UNIX

Defining z/OS UNIX users to RACF

Steps for defining z/OS UNIX users to RACF

Storing user-specific information in OMVS segments

Automatically generating UIDs and GIDs

Steps for obtaining security information about a group

Obtaining security information about users

Steps for obtaining security information about users

Setting up field-level access for the OMVS segment of a user profile

Steps for creating z/OS UNIX groups

Assigning superuser privileges

Steps for authorizing selected users to transfer ownership of any file

Allowing z/OS UNIX users to change file ownerships

Steps for setting up the CHOWN.UNRESTRICTED profile

Using the BPX.SUPERUSER resource in the FACILITY class

Steps for changing a superuser from UID(0) to a unique nonzero UID

Switching in and out of superuser authority

Setting classes for a user's process

Steps for setting up the FILE.GROUPOWNER.SETGID profile

Using access control lists (ACLs)

Using security labels

Using multilevel security

Security labels for zFS files and directories

Auditing access to files and directories

Specifying file audit options

Using sanction lists

Maintaining the security level of the system

Steps for maintaining the security level of the system

Managing the z/OS UNIX file system

How does zFS differ from HFS?

HFS compatibility mode

Mount behaviors of zFS

Determining the zFS file system owner

Setting up the z/OS UNIX file system

Mounting file systems

Automatically replacing the sysplex root file system with the alternate sysplex root file system if it becomes unowned

Dynamically replacing the sysplex root file system

Steps for dynamically replacing the sysplex root file system

Managing file systems

Mounting the root file system for execution

Customizing the cron, uucp, and mail utilities for a read-only root file system

Ways to back up file systems

Using direct mount

Handling file system failures

Steps for recovering from file system problems with the root

Installing service into the z/OS UNIX file system

Installing products into the file system

Using the automount facility

Sharing file systems in a sysplex

File systems in single system environments

Establishing a shared file system in a sysplex

Updating COUPLExx to define the z/OS UNIX CDS to XCF

Sysplex scenarios showing shared file system capability

Minimum setup required for file system availability

Situations that can interrupt availability

Moving file systems in a sysplex

Implications of shared file systems during system failures and recovery

Managing the movement of data

Shared file system implications during a planned shutdown of z/OS UNIX

State of file systems after shutdown

Customizing the shells and utilities

Customizing the shell environment variables

Customizing the RACF user profile

Customizing files for the z/OS shell

Customizing /etc/profile

Customizing $HOME/.profile

Steps for customizing /etc/rc

Customizing /etc/inittab

Customizing files for the tcsh shell

Customizing $HOME/.tcshrc

Customizing /etc/complete.tcsh

Targeting a z/OS release earlier than the current one

Targeting an earlier release

Customizing the terminfo database

Customizing electronic mail

Customizing for your national code page in the shell

Concatenating target libraries to ISPF

PROFILE PLANGUAGE and the OMVS command

Configuring the UNIX-to-UNIX copy program (UUCP)

The UUCP communications network

Maintaining UUCP

Cleaning up UUCP files

Converting files between code pages

Setting up Enhanced ASCII

Using Unicode Services in a z/OS UNIX environment

Managing operations

Steps for partial shutdowns for JES2 maintenance

Planned shutdowns using F OMVS,SHUTDOWN

Dynamically activating the z/OS UNIX component service items

Dynamically changing the BPXPRMxx parameter values

Dynamically changing certain BPXPRMxx parameter values

Steps for activating a single sockets file system for the first time

Activating a multiple sockets file system for the first time with Common INET (CINET)

Steps for activating a multiple socket file system for the first time with Common INET

Specifying the maximum number of sockets

Steps for increasing the MAXSOCKETS value

Adding another sockets file system to an existing Common INET (CINET) configuration

Steps for adding another sockets file system to an existing CINET configuration

Tracing events

Filtering trace data

Recovering from a failure

Managing Interprocess Communication (IPC)

Managing processing for z/OS UNIX

Controlling code page conversion

Example of data conversion specified by a user

Customizing code page conversion

Example of code page conversion of OMVS command

Managing z/OS UNIX in relation to other processing

Accessing the Language Environment runtime library

Steps for making the runtime library available through STEPLIB

Fastpath support for System Authorization Facility (SAF)

Determining problem causes

Writing messages to a job log file

Managing the temporary file system (TFS)

Monitoring space in the TFS

Using the TFS in a shared file system

Setting up for daemons

Customizing the system for IBM-supplied daemons

Defining modules to program control

Checking UNIX files for program control

Steps for checking UNIX files for program control

Defining UNIX files as APF-authorized programs

Defining UNIX files as shared library programs

Setting the shared library attribute

Steps for setting up enhanced program security

Customizing the system for IP-supplied daemons

Steps for customizing the system for IP-supplied daemons

Customizing the IBM-supplied daemons

Customizing the inetd daemon

Steps for customizing the inetd daemon

Customizing the uucpd daemon

Steps for customizing the uucpd daemon

Starting daemons

Setting up security procedures for daemons

Steps for setting up security procedures for daemons

Steps for finding modules that were not defined to program control

Setting up for rlogin

Preparing security for servers

Establishing the correct level of security for servers

Defining servers to use thread-level security

Steps for setting up servers

Defining servers to process users without passwords or password phrases

Steps for defining servers to process users without passwords or password phrases

Monitoring the environment

Reporting on activities using SMF records

Monitoring process activity

Using installation exits

Tuning performance

Improving performance by updating the PROGxx member

Caching RACF user and group information in VLF

Steps for caching UID and GID information in VLF

Moving z/OS UNIX executables into the LPA

Improving performance of the z/OS shell

Setting up for sockets

Using specific transports under CINET

Resolver configuration files

Displaying information about sockets

Managing accounting work

Steps for modifying accounting information

Steps for activating the IEFUJI exit for OMVS work

Modules for the login and logout functions

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