Well, I've been asked to install Omegamon XE for DB2 PM in our shop. I downloaded the required components from the IBM Shop z website and did a SMP/E RECEIVE. When I started the SMP/E APPLY (with CHECK option), I started getting all kinds of errors. I'm new to SMP/E, so I'll try to document what I find from my experience. It might be useful for those novices who have starting doing SMP/E installs.
These are the steps I follow when I install a product or apply maintenance(PTF) on an existing product:
1. If you are applying maintenance on an existing product, use ADRDSSU to backup ALL the datasets related to the product
2. Download the product CBDBO/PTF from IBM Shop z series website to your PC
3. FTP the product/PTF to mainframe
4. If the PTF is in tersed (IBM way of compressing) format, UNTERSE using TRSMAIN program with UNPACK option - if you need a sample job to run TRSMAIN, please put your request in the comment section
5. For new product installs, allocate SMP/E global zone and target/distribution datasets and all other related SMP/E datasets like SMPLOG, SMPPTS, SMPLTS, SMPMTS etc. Usually when you download the product,you'll get a sample job that allocates these datasets and defines them to the appropriate DD names. Go through the Program Directory to find info on the sample job. You may have to talk to your storage administrator about which volume to use for the new datasets.
6. Run SMP/E APPLY job with CHECK option (CHECK option ensures that you do not update any datasets. In our shop we usually install new product in the "base" libraries and all PTFs in the "maintenance" libraries. After installing thePTFs in the maintenance libraries, if everything goes well, we copy them to the base libraries. With the CHECK option you can see which datasets will be updated and if you do see any issue with updating a particular dataset, you can change the DDDEF - DD definition - in SMP/E and resubmit the job with CHECK option)
7. Run SMP/E APPLY job with CHECK option commented.
8. After a satisfactory testing, run SMP/E ACCEPT with CHECK option (this is in most cases not necessary unless you are going to back out any changes - in my little experience, if I've to backout a PTF, I just RESTORE all the datasets from the ADRSSU backup taken before applying the PTF)
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