Acquiring a z/OSMF Portable Software Instance
Acquiring a z/OSMF Portable Software Instance
As a systems programmer, you can acquire an IBM z/OSMF portable package for your product and then add the portable software instance to z/OSMF. The product SMP/E environments are pre-built, backed up, and made available for download as a z/OSMF portable software instance. After you acquire the portable software instance, you can use z/OSMF Deployments to perform the installation and z/OSMF workflows to perform post-install configuration.
When you complete the acquisition process, the product software is ready for installation using z/OSMF Deployments.
- Note: Before you begin the acquisition process, ensure that you address the z/OSMF requirements.
The z/OSMF product acquisition process consists of 2 tasks.
- Download the portable software instance from Zowe downloads and transfer it to the mainframe.
- Register the portable software instance in z/OSMF.
Download the Portable Software Instance from Zowe Downloads
The portable software instance is a portable form of a software instance, including the SMP/E CSI data sets, all associated SMP/E-managed target and distribution libraries, non-SMP/E-managed data sets, and meta-data that is required to describe the product software instance.
To acquire the portable software instance, you can download it from the Zowe Downloads page and transfer it to a local z/OSMF host using a file transfer utility, such as FTP.
- Go to Zowe Downloads and find Zowe - Portable Software Instance.
- Download the latest version of the package to your workstation.
- Use an file transfer utility such as an FTP client to transfer the single pax file to the mainframe.
- Execute the JCL to unpack the installation file and restore the individual pax files. Sample JCL follows:
//USSBATCH EXEC PGM=BPXBATCH
//STDOUT DD SYSOUT=*
//STDERR DD SYSOUT=*
//STDPARM DD *
sh cd /yourUSSpaxdirectory/;
pax -rvf yourpaxfilename.ZOSMF.pax.Z
/*
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Customize the sample JCL as follows and then submit for execution:
- Add a JOB statement.
- Update the USS directory (yourUSSpaxdirectory) with the path name where you want to copy the pax file.
- Update yourpaxfilename with the name of the pax file that you want to copy to the mainframe.
USSBATCH can take several minutes to execute. You will receive a return code of 0 if this job runs correctly.
After successful execution, the individual pax files are restored and ready for use. Next step is to Register Portable Software Instance in z/OSMF.
Register Portable Software Instance in z/OSMF
After you have acquired and downloaded the portable software instance to a local z/OSMF host system, you must log in to z/OSMF to register the product software and define the portable software instance to z/OSMF as shown in the following procedure. When you complete these steps, the portable software instance is registered in z/OSMF and ready for installation (deployment).
- Log in to the z/OSMF web interface and select your user ID in the top or bottom right-hand corner to switch between the Desktop Interface and Classic Interface.
- Complete either of the following steps to display the Software Management page:
- In the Desktop Interface, select Software Management.
- In the Classic Interface, select Software, Software Management.
- Select Portable Software Instances to define your portable software instance to z/OSMF.
- Select Add from the Actions menu and select From z/OSMF System. Then the Add Portable Software Instance page should display.
- Select or type the system name (destination LPAR) and UNIX directory (destination USS directory) where the portable software instance files reside and select Retrieve.
- Enter a name for the new portable software instance. You can also enter an optional description and assign one or more categories that display existing packages.
- Select OK.
Now the new portable software instance is defined to z/OSMF. And the portable software instance is now registered in z/OSMF and ready to install (deploy).