Customization setup

z/OS® Explorer comes with several sample configuration files and sample JCL. To avoid overwriting your customizations when applying maintenance, you should copy all these members and z/OS UNIX files to a different location and customize the copy.

Some functions of z/OS Explorer also require the existence of certain directories in z/OS UNIX, which must be created during the customization of the product. To ease the installation effort, a sample job, FEKSETUP, is provided to create the copies and the required directories.

Note: The Host Configuration Utility Guide (SC27-8436) describes the host configuration using the Host Configuration Utility. The FEKSETUP job and the utility do some of the same tasks, with no way of checking to see if those tasks have already been performed. Therefore it is possible to undo changes that have already been made. For this reason, you should not use both methods for a single installation.

Customize and submit sample member FEKSETUP in data set FEK.SFEKSAMP to create customizable copies of configuration files and configuration JCL, and to create required z/OS UNIX directories. The required customization steps are described within the member.

This job performs the following tasks:
  • Create FEK.#CUST.PARMLIB and populate it with sample configuration files.
  • Create FEK.#CUST.PROCLIB and populate it with sample SYS1.PROCLIB members.
  • Create FEK.#CUST.JCL and populate it with sample configuration JCL.
  • Create FEK.#CUST.CNTL and populate it with sample server startup scripts.
  • Create /etc/zexpl/* and populate it with sample configuration files.
  • Create /var/zexpl/* as work directories for various z/OS Explorer functions, and populate it with sample files.