Introduction

A causer SYSMOD is a SYSMOD whose failure led to the failure of other SYSMODs. To identify causer SYSMODs, SMP/E performs root cause analysis for the ACCEPT, APPLY, and RESTORE commands. The types of errors SMP/E analyzes to determine causer SYSMODs include the following:

Held SYSMODs
Missing requisite SYSMODs
Utility program failures: copy, update, assembler, link, zap
Out-of-space conditions: x37 ABENDs
Missing DD statements and other allocation errors
ID errors (a SYSMOD does not supersede or specify as a prerequisite an RMID or a UMID of an element)
JCLIN errors (syntax errors)

The results of SMP/E's root cause analysis are presented in two reports:

SYSMOD Status report
This report summarizes the processing done for each eligible SYSMOD. For SYSMODs that failed, the report lists the causer SYSMODs.

After you check the SYSMOD Status report to determine the results of processing, use the Causer SYSMOD Summary report to determine which errors need to be corrected.
Causer SYSMOD Summary report
This report lists the causer SYSMODs along with a brief summary of the related messages, descriptions of the errors that caused the SYSMODs to fail, and, when feasible, some causes for those errors.