Introduction

The z/OS® Explorer Host Configuration Utility is a utility created to assist customers with z/OS Explorer host installation customization, installation verification and debug reporting. The Host Configuration Utility is referred to as the "utility" within this document.

The utility is designed to manage multiple configurations of a single z/OS Explorer service level, hence providing configurations for test and production implementations of the product.

The utility is intended to ease the complexity of installation and customization of required tasks and selected common optional tasks. This is paired with a detailed logged customization workflow that can be interrupted and restarted at will.

Multiple users can use the same set of configuration files (but not simultaneously). This allows one person to create a configuration, and someone else with proper authority can execute specific steps of the configuration.

Note: The Host Configuration Guide (SC27-8437) describes the host configuration using the FEKSETUP job. 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.