Identifying driving system software requirements for installing z/OS using full volume dump SystemPac

For a SystemPac full volume dump order delivered on tape, there are three possible ways to restore your order:

With stand-alone utilities.
If you do not have a z/OS® driving system, your SystemPac order contains the stand-alone versions of the following utility programs so that you can install your order:
- ICKDSF, to be used to initialize DASD, create VTOCs, and perform other utility functions during system installation
- DFSMSdss, to restore the volume from tape to DASD
The utilities are provided based on selections you make during local order entry. See the SystemPac Installation Guide supplied with your order for details about running these utilities.
With batch JCL.
This is the most common way to install a full volume dump order. If you have a z/OS driving system, you can install your order through a batch job that initializes and restores the DASD volumes. However, you need to have the following software:
- ICKDSF R17 or later. (The R17 level of the ICKDSF product is functionally equivalent to the ICKDSF base element in z/OS V1R4 [with the z/OS V1R4 z990 Compatibility Support feature installed] and later.)
- DFSMSdss or Innovation Data Processing FDR V5.3.44 or later.
The JCL to restore the DASD volumes is described in the SystemPac Installation Guide supplied with your order.

A full volume dump order is a load-and-go implementation that allows you to IPL your system as it is restored. You can customize after you start your target system. Jobs are "file-tailored" and stored in a library, as described in the SystemPac Installation Guide.
With the CustomPac Installation Dialog.
If you previously installed a ServerPac or dump-by-data-set SystemPac order and you have the CustomPac Installation Dialog installed, you can use the dialog to receive your order from the first System and Distribution tape, and then use the dialog to install your order. If you use this method, after your DASD volumes are restored and the catalog volume is available, you need to connect the target system master catalog to your driving system. For details, see the SystemPac Installation Guide sent with your order.

Internet delivery requirements. If you intend to receive your SystemPac full volume dump order by way of the Internet, you need the following: Start of change

If you intend to receive your order using Standard FTP (FTP):
- SMP/E V3R6 or higher
- ICSF configured and active or Java 2 Technology Edition, V1 (5655-I56) or later installed, which enables SMP/E to calculate SHA-1 hash values to verify the integrity of data being transmitted. If ICSF is not configured and active, SMP/E will use its Java application class instead for calculating the SHA-1 hash values. IBM recommends the ICSF method because it is likely to perform better than the SMP/E method. (To find out how to configure and activate ICSF, see ).
- A download file system. Your order is provided in a compressed format and is saved in a download file system. The size of this file system should be approximately twice the compressed size of your order to accommodate the order and workspace to process it.
- Firewall configuration. If your enterprise requires specific commands to allow the download of your order through a local firewall, you must identify these commands for later use in the CustomPac Installation Dialog, which manages the download of your order.
If you intend to receive your order using Secure FTP (FTPS):
- SMP/E V3R6 or higher
- ICSF configured and active or Java 2 Technology Edition, V1 (5655-I56) or later installed, which enables SMP/E to calculate SHA-1 hash values to verify the integrity of data being transmitted. If ICSF is not configured and active, SMP/E will use its Java application class instead for calculating the SHA-1 hash values. IBM recommends the ICSF method because it is likely to perform better than the SMP/E method. (To find out how to configure and activate ICSF, see ).
- A download file system. Your order is provided in a compressed format and is saved in a download file system. The size of this file system should be approximately twice the compressed size of your order to accommodate the order and workspace to process it.
- Firewall configuration. If your enterprise requires specific commands to allow the download of your order through a local firewall, you must identify these commands for later use in the CustomPac Installation Dialog, which manages the download of your order.
- Ensure that the Root 2 - GeoTrust Global CA Certificate is connected to your security manager keyring and trusted on your system, and that the user ID that executes SMP/E is authorized to use the keyring.
- Ensure that your FTP.DATA data set statements used in the GETORDRS job are set appropriately for your environment. For example, an FTPKEEPALIVE statement with a value of 0 (the default) can cause an FTP control connection to time out in some environments. Also, the security manager keyring file specified by the KEYRING statement in the FTP.DATA file might require certificates to be added. For details about specifying FTP.DATA statements, see .
If you intend to download your order using HTTP Secure (HTTPS):
- SMP/E V3R6 with PTFs UO01693 (Base) and UO01695 (Japanese) or higher
- SMP/E will use the services of Java 6 (IBM 31-bit SDK for z/OS, Java 2 Technology Edition (5655-R31) or IBM 64-bit SDK for z/OS, Java 2 Technology Edition Version 6 (5655-R32)) or higher.
- A download file system. Your order is provided in a compressed format and is saved in a download file system. The size of this file system should be approximately twice the compressed size of your order to accommodate the order and workspace to process it.
- HTTP or SOCKS Proxy Server configuration. If your enterprise requires specific commands to allow the download of your order through an HTTP or SOCKS Proxy Server, you must identify these commands for later use in the GETORDRH job.
- Ensure that the Root 2 - GeoTrust Global CA Certificate is connected to your security manager keyring or stored in your default Java keystore file and trusted on your system, and that the user ID that executes SMP/E is authorized to use the keyring or default Java keystore file.
Go to the Connectivity Test for SW Download Readiness web site at: https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/iwm/web/preLogin.do?lang=en_US&source=cbct for instructions on how to set up and verify that your system can connect to the IBM download servers.
For more detailed information on how to set up FTPS or HTTPS, see .

If you intend to download your SystemPac full volume dump order to a workstation and from there to z/OS:

Download Director. This is a Java™ applet used to transfer IBM® software to your workstation. For Download Director requirements, see http://www14.software.ibm.com/dldirector/faq.html.
The SystemPac full volume dump order accessible to the host. To make the order (files) accessible to z/OS, you can do any of the following:
- Configure the workstation as an FTP server. After you download the order to your workstation, the GETORDRS job can point to a network location (in this case, your workstation) to access the order. Consult the documentation for your workstation operating system to determine if this FTP capability is provided or if you have to install additional software. Commercial, shareware, and freeware applications are available to provide this support. However, IBM cannot directly recommend or endorse any specific application. This option requires the use of ICSF.
- Use FTP commands to upload your package. The CustomPac Internet Delivery Installation Checklist for Full Volume Dump (FVD) (http://service.boulder.ibm.com/390holddata.html) contains sample FTP commands that you can use to transfer your package to the host. You can copy/paste and update as required to provide a user ID and password, and to replace your_package_id with the actual workstation location (directory) and packid with the host location (directory) for your environment. To make the transfer easier, you can create a text file that contains these FTP commands. This file then becomes input to the FTP program on your workstation.
- Use network drives that are mounted to z/OS. The mounting can be accomplished using the NFS base element, server message block (SMB) support provided by the Distributed File Service base element, or the Distributed FileManager component of the DFSMSdfp base element. The package is received from the file system defined as your SMPNTS.
  For information about NFS, see z/OS Network File System Guide and Reference. For information about using the Distributed FileManager, see z/OS DFSMS DFM Guide and Reference.
CD write capability. If you specified that 100% electronic delivery is required, there might be CD images associated with your order. The images are delivered in ISO9660 format and are packaged in a compressed file. This file requires your workstation to have CD write capability and you might have to acquire software to support this capability.
DVD delivery requirements. If you intend to receive your SystemPac full volume dump order on DVD, you need SMP/E V3R6 or higher.
Additional DVD delivery requirements. If you plan to copy the contents of the DVD(s) to a workstation before making them available on a z/OS host system, then the following requirements apply:
- The ability to share or transfer data to the z/OS host system where the order will be installed.
- Disk space for storing DVD files. The amount of disk space required varies by order. You need to have sufficient space for the compressed package. The package will be uncompressed on your host.
- If you plan to use GETORDER GIMGTPKG steps to receive order content using the workstation as the server, you must set up an FTP server on that workstation.