Customizing the configuration profiles

The configuration profiles have been tailored with the values you provided as you set up the work environment. They also contain default values for all required parameters and some optional parameters. The amount of additional customization that is required depends upon how much your environment differs from the model or product-provided defaults. At a minimum, you must supply certain site-specific values. You must also enable and configure any features you want to exploit. To save time and effort, you can run the KCIJPDLn jobs to automatically pre-populate the configuration files.

About this task

If you have IBM Discovery Library Adapter for z/OS (DLA) installed in an LPAR that the PARMGEN configuration jobs can access, you can use the KCIJPDLn jobs to automatically pre-populate the LPAR RTE user profiles for some product parameters customized in the user profiles. This reduces the time and effort in creating accurate configuration files. See Preparing the configuration profiles by running the KCIJPDLn jobs for details.

In the RTE configuration profile, you might need to configure one or more of the following parameters:

  • Specify the z/OS® UNIX System Services directory to be used for SDA data (RTE_USS_RTEDIR).
  • To automate APF-authorization of all generated started tasks by generating the required commands for all libraries concatenated within the STEPLIB and RKANMODL DD names of the started tasks, set RTE_X_STC_INAPF_INCLUDE_FLAG to Y.
  • To collect historical data for display in either the Tivoli® Enterprise Portal or the OMEGAMON® Enhanced 3270 user interface, data sets are allocated to store the data. You might need to change the product-specific number of sequential files allocated to the group for each product (Kpp_PDS_FILE_COUNT) and the product-specific number of cylinders that will be divided among the files (Kpp_PD_CYL).

The parameters discussed here are not the only parameters for which you must either accept or override the default values in the configuration profile for the runtime environment. After you set the parameters shown here, review the configuration profiles to ensure the parameter values are correct for the configuration you want. Customizing the runtime environment configuration profile discusses the values and features that are typically customized in the RTE configuration profile.

In the global configuration profile, you must provide a site-appropriate value for the GBL_HFS_JAVA_DIR1 parameter. You must also edit the value for load library parameter GBL_DSN_CSF_SCSFMOD0 and any of the product-specific parameters listed in Customizing the global configuration profile, as appropriate.

Procedure

  1. From the Workflow - Primary Option Menu, select 2 (Customize PARMGEN configuration profiles).

    The Customize PARMGEN Configuration Profile Members panel (KCIP@PG6) is displayed.

  2. Type DLAJOB in the command line and press Enter to review the composite KCIJPDLA job that auto-discovers the values to some parameters in the configuration profiles. Submit the job after you review the job settings.
    For more information about the KCIJPDLn jobs, see Preparing the configuration profiles by running the KCIJPDLn jobs, and PARMGEN z/OS DLA utility jobs and commands.
  3. Select 1 to edit the RTE profile.
  4. Select 2 to edit the $GBL$USR global profile.

What to do next

If you need to further customize the configuration using the override embed members, customize the embed files before you run the $PARSE job to create the RTE members and jobs. To edit the embed files, select option 4 on the Customize PARMGEN Configuration Profile Members panel. You can also edit the files by entering UTIL on the command line of any Workflow panel to access the Access PARMGEN Utilities panel, then selecting option 7. For more information on customizing embed files, see Customizing the override embed members.