ISPF is packaged using the features of SMP/E that allow multiple multicultural support language features to be installed in a single target zone. We recommend that you take advantage of this by installing all of the base code and all multicultural support language features in one target zone and one distribution zone. This simplifies the installation of maintenance.

If you do not install your multicultural support features in the same target and distribution zones as the base, SMP/E cannot properly track maintenance (PTFs) that contains REQ or IF REQ statements. When you install PTFs for the multicultural support features that contain REQ statements for PTFs that apply to the base or PTFs for the base that contain IF REQ statements for PTFs that apply to the multicultural support features, you must use this procedure:

1. APPLY the base PTF that is REQed by the multicultural support feature PTF or contains an IF REQ for an multicultural support feature PTF.
2. APPLY the multicultural support feature PTF using BYPASS(REQ).
3. Test the maintenance according to your normal procedures.
4. ACCEPT the base PTF that is REQed by the multicultural support feature PTF or contains and IF REQ for a multicultural support feature PTF.
5. ACCEPT the multicultural support feature PTF using BYPASS(REQ).

PTFs for ISPF do not contain preprocessed panels. If you are using preprocessed panels in your execution data sets, after installing PTFs that contain panels you must preprocess the panels in the PTF into your execution data set to fully install the maintenance.