GIMXSID is an SMP/E service routine to produce software inventory data. It is used as part of the IBM ShopzSeries offering, and can be used more generally to produce software inventory data. GIMXSID creates a single data source required by ShopzSeries to place customized software product and service orders. The data source created by GIMXSID, the software inventory data, is a composite of three kinds of information as follows:
GIMXSID is an independent load module residing in the MIGLIB library. It has an addressing mode of 31 (AMODE=31), a residence mode of 24 (RMODE=24), and is not authorized (AC=0). GIMXSID runs independently from the rest of SMP/E processing.