Accepting SYSMODs having prerequisites

When installing a SYSMOD, you might not always know if it has prerequisites, or if the prerequisites are available. (Sometimes a prerequisite SYSMOD might not be received, or it might be held because it is in error.) In cases such as this, you can direct SMP/E to check whether an equivalent (or superseding) SYSMOD is available, by specifying the GROUPEXTEND operand.

Assume you want to process all PTFs for a product on your system, and you want to ensure that all other required SYSMODs are also processed. You can do this by specifying the following commands:

   SET      BDY(ZOSDLB1).
   ACCEPT   PTFS
            FORFMID(HOP0001)
            GROUPEXTEND.

By issuing these commands, you direct SMP/E to accept all PTFs, along with any other required SYSMODs, to the product whose FMID is HOP0001 and is located in the ZOSDLB1 target zone. If SMP/E cannot find a required SYSMOD, it looks for and uses a SYSMOD that supersedes the required one.