Installing PFA

Before you begin: Before installing PFA in your environment, you must initialize z/OS® UNIX and install the following products on your system:

IBM® 31-bit SDK for z/OS Java™ Technology Edition, Version 6.0.0. For more information about Java, see Java Standard Edition website at www.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/tools/java/.
Restriction: PFA does not support IBM 64-bit SDK for z/OS Java Technology Edition.
IBM Health Checker for z/OS. You must be familiar with the set up for IBM Health Checker for z/OS. Most of the setup for PFA involves security definitions that are similar to the setup for any other started task and remote check. You must ensure that both PFA and IBM Health Checker for z/OS have access to the necessary resources including z/OS UNIX. For IBM Health Checker for z/OS details, see Setting up IBM Health Checker for z/OS in IBM Health Checker for z/OS User's Guide.

Guidelines:

The examples this procedure shows are for illustrative purposes only. Replace the example parameters with the correct specifications for your environment.
This documentation uses /pfa as the generic term for the home directory of the PFA user ID.
To use the PFA_COMMON_STORAGE_USAGE check, you must ensure your system is using the following DIAGxx parmlib member options: VSM TRACK CSA(ON) SQA(ON).
For more information about using DIAGxx, see z/OS MVS Initialization and Tuning Reference and z/OS MVS Initialization and Tuning Guide. In addition, each check has specific guidelines. For example, the PFA_JES_SPOOL_USAGE check works only for JES2.
The z/OS File System (zFS) is a z/OS UNIX file system that contains files and directories that can be accessed with z/OS UNIX application programming interfaces (APIs) and supports access control lists (ACLs). In this documentation, all references to the z/OS UNIX file system assume that you are using zFS. For complete zFS details, see z/OS Distributed File Service zFS Administration.
If z/OS UNIX is shut down for any reason, restart PFA.