Product ServerPac

For ordering products other than z/OS itself, IBM offers a capability called a Product ServerPac. With a Product ServerPac, you can order z/OS, DB2, IMS, NCP, and CICS products without having to include the DB2, IMS, NCP, or CICS base product in the order. You can order Enterprise PL/I V4 (5655-W67), or IBM® Sterling Connect: Direct for z/OS® (5655-X01), and IBM InfoSphere® Guardium® Data Encryption for IMS™ and DB2® Databases (5655-P03) without having to order z/OS or DB2 itself. As of z/OS V2R1, you can also use a Product ServerPac to order IMS, NCP, and CICS® products without having to include the IMS, NCP, or CICS base product in the order.

A Product ServerPac has the same characteristics as a regular ServerPac. IBM installs the product or product set when manufacturing your order and delivers the target and distribution libraries with:

Service integrated (applied and accepted) to the latest RSU level
HIPER and PRP service applied
The SMP/E environment with a single GLOBAL zone and the minimum number of TARGET and DLIB zones required

By default, for the z/OS SREL, IBM delivers WebSphere products in their own zone pair, IBM Installation Manager installed products in their own zone pair, and the rest of the products in a separate zone pair. The intent is for you to manage the products you ordered as a product set in the delivered SMP/E environment. As of V2R1, you can choose which global zone you want to use for installation, the existing driving systems, or the global zone that is shipped with the order.

As with the ServerPac orders for subsystems, Product ServerPac orders are not shipped with a separate master catalog and use the existing master catalog during installation.

Using a Product ServerPac rather than CBPDO to build these product sets avoids having to install each product individually and then install service using SMP/E.

Using Shopz, you can order eligible products in a Product ServerPac in the same manner as for regular ServerPac. Shopz will have a new triangle icon to indicate which products in the ServerPac catalog are eligible for a Product ServerPac. Because this is a ServerPac, Shopz product requisite checking enforces requirements for installation, but similar to CBPDO, Shopz also displays requisites that can be bypassed if you already have them installed on your system.