Upgrading IBM z/OS agents

You can upgrade IBM® z/OS® agents. However, you must upgrade the server before you upgrade the agents.

Depending on how the z/OS agents are installed, you have several options for upgrading the agents.

Note: IBM DevOps Deploy (Deploy) does not support upgrading z/OS agents remotely.
  1. To upgrade agents from SMP/E installation, follow these steps:
    1. If a different high-level qualifier than that for the previous installation is used, edit each agent's installed.properties file, specifying the new high-level qualifier.
      • <AGENT_HOME>/conf/agent/installed.properties (file is in ASCII encoding)
      • <AGENT_HOME>/mvs/dataset.properties (file is in EBCDIC encoding)
      • <AGENT_HOME>/conf/toolkit/ISPF.conf (If using Deploy ISPF configuration)
    2. Follow the instructions in the Program Directory for Deploy for z/OS.
    3. Upgrade each agent by using one of the options in Upgrading agents.
    Note:

    After the SMP/E installation, the UNIX installer is already on your file system so you can skip the first few steps in the typical command-line install or upgrade guide and start from running the shell commands. If you are following the instructions in Upgrading agents from the command line or Upgrading agents in silent mode topics, you can skip the steps that download and extract the installer. Start with running the install-agent.sh or install-agent-from-file.sh script from your SMP/E installation directory.

  2. To upgrade from a non-SMP/E installation, use one of the options in Upgrading agents.