Deciding whether to dynamically enable

By describing the situations that require dynamic enablement, this section helps you decide whether you need to dynamically enable.

A priced feature was not in your original order for a specific processor (as identified by a specific processor serial number) but you now want to use it on that processor. If this is the case, then follow the steps starting with Dynamic enablement Step 1: Notify IBM. The priced features are:

BDT File-to-File
BDT SNA NJE
BookManager® BUILD
DFSMSdss
DFSMShsm (and DFSMSdss)
DFSMSrmm
DFSMStvs
DFSORT
GDDM-PGF
GDDM-REXX
HCM
HLASM Toolkit
Infoprint Server
JES3
RMF™
SDSF
Security Server
XL C/C++
zEDC

You are licensed for a product that is also a nonexclusive priced feature and the license is on a processor other than the one to which your z/OS® order applies. To allow your installation flexibility as you migrate to z/OS, you can run the separate product versions of the z/OS nonexclusive priced features (or, in one case, a component of a nonexclusive priced feature). Running the separate product version of such a z/OS feature means you do not have to order and install the z/OS feature.

The products that are also z/OS nonexclusive priced features are:

GDDM-PGF. The corresponding z/OS feature is GDDM-PGF.
HLASM Toolkit feature of HLASM. The corresponding z/OS feature is HLASM Toolkit.

If your order included separate product versions of these features, the separate versions are enabled in the IBM-supplied IFAPRD00 member. If you are licensed for such products on a processor other than the one to which your z/OS order applies, you must specifically enable them because the IBM-supplied IFAPRD00 does not. Follow the steps starting with Dynamic enablement Step 1: Notify IBM.

You are licensed for DCF on a processor other than the one to which your z/OS order applies, or not licensed at all. The product DCF (5748-XX9) can be dynamically enabled. To use DCF, you must do one of the following:

If you are already licensed for DCF on a specific processor, you must explicitly enable it in the IFAPRDxx member that is active on that processor in order to continue to use it with z/OS. Follow the steps starting with Dynamic enablement Step 1: Notify IBM.
If you are not licensed for DCF on a specific processor and would like to use it, you must purchase a license for that processor, receive and install DCF, and then follow the steps starting with Dynamic enablement Step 1: Notify IBM to enable it in the IFAPRDxx member that is active on that processor. (It is a violation of your license agreement with IBM® to enable DCF on a processor if you are not licensed for it on that processor.)

You are licensed for the alternate base but now want to use the standard base. IP Services, the component of element Communications Server that supports TCP/IP networking, supports dynamic enablement because of the z/OS alternate base configuration. (Refer to Alternate base.) IP Services is shipped enabled if you order the standard z/OS base but disabled if you order the alternate base. Thus, if you are licensed for the alternate base but now want to be licensed to use the standard base, you must enable IP Services (using the name TCP/IP). Follow the steps starting with Dynamic enablement Step 1: Notify IBM.