Use the RECEIVE FROMNTS command to process a package that already exists in the SMPNTS directory. Such a package may have been downloaded previously using either the RECEIVE FROMNETWORK or RECEIVE ORDER commands with the TRANSFERONLY operand. If RECEIVE ORDER was used to create and download the package, then you can use the ORDER entry name to access the package. Otherwise, you must use the package directory name itself. If you specify an ORDER entry name, SMP/E reads the PKGID subentry in the ORDER entry to obtain the package directory value.

Once the package directory is known, SMP/E processes the package contents, as directed by the applicable RECEIVE command operands. If SYSMODs or HOLDDATA are to be processed, then SMP/E transforms the archive files in the /SMPPTFIN, /SMPHOLD, and /SMPRELF subdirectories of the package directory into images of the original data. SMP/E then processes this data as if it had been read from the SMPPTFIN and SMPHOLD data sets, as described in Processing input from SMPPTFIN and SMPHOLD.

In addition, if the package was identified using an ORDER entry name, as SYSMODs are stored in the global zone a source ID value corresponding to the ORDER entry name will be added to each SYSMOD entry. This source ID will be added in addition to a source ID value that may be specified on the SOURCEID operand of the RECEIVE command, and in addition to any source ID values found on ++ASSIGN statements being processed.