Driving system Wave 1 requirements

In Wave 1, you install most of the elements and features of z/OS®.

Driving system requirements for installing Wave 1 are as follows:
  1. An operating system. Use either of the following:
    • z/OSStart of changeV2R4End of change or later, except that the program management binder, HLASM, and SMP/E must be at the current (latest) levels.

      To satisfy the program management binder, HLASM, and SMP/E requirements, you can use a STEPLIB DD statement to access the z/OS program management binder, HLASM, and SMP/E in the Wave 0 target system SYS1.MIGLIB and ASM.SASMMOD1 data sets. Ensure that the target system SYS1.MIGLIB and ASM.SASMMOD1 data sets are APF-authorized on the driving system. Also, ensure that HLASM PTF UK57150 (APAR PM14258) is installed.

    • The Customized Offerings Driver (5751-COD).
  2. Proper security. To install the UNIX files, you require the security definitions that are described in item 7 of Driving system requirements for installing z/OS and other IBM products by using a ServerPac portable software instance.
  3. Program management binder entry in SMP/E UTILITY. The SMP/E UTILITY must have an entry for the program management binder. You can specify any of these program names in the UTILITY entry: IEWBLINK, HEWL, IEWL, LINKEDIT, or HEWLH096. (The linkage editor, which uses the names HEWLKED, HEWLF064, IEWLF440, IEWLF880, and IEWLF128, cannot be used.)
  4. IEBCOPY entry update in SMP/E UTILITY. In the IEBCOPY entry of the global zone options, you must specify PARM(WORK=2M) before you receive the FMIDs for Wave 1 elements. This change was introduced in z/OS V2R1 because of the relfiles size increase in support of the Unicode component in the BCP element.
  5. Language Environment® requirements. You must add SCEERUN (the runtime library that is provided by Language Environment) to your program search order because many elements and features require it. If you want, add SCEERUN to your LNKLST concatenation. If you do not add SCEERUN to your LNKLST, you access SCEERUN by using STEPLIB DD statements in the individual element and feature procedures that require them. The BCP is one element that requires access to SCEERUN; its program management binder is the source of this requirement since OS/390® V2R10. This means that you must make SCEERUN available (by LNKLST concatenation or STEPLIB DD statement, for instance) to any JCL and procedures (such as SMP/E procedures) that start the program management binder. This ensures that processing, such as conversion of long names to short names, is successful.
  6. OMVS address space is active. Before you install the elements and features in Wave 1, you must activate the OMVS address space in full function mode on the driving system. To activate OMVS, complete the required customization (for example, SMS and RACF® setup) as described in z/OS UNIX System Services Planning.
  7. Java runtime requirement. To install Wave 1 elements, you require IBM 31-bit SDK for z/OS Java Technology Edition V8.0 or higher (5655-DGG), or IBM 64-bit SDK for z/OS Java Technology Edition V8.0 or higher (5655-DGH) on the driving system.
  8. Mounting of the target system file system. The target system file system must be mounted.