Predeployment considerations

z/OS® Explorer supports the cloning of an installation to a different system, thus avoiding the need for a SMP/E installation on each system.

The following data sets, directories, and files are mandatory for deployment to other systems. If you copied a file to a different location, this file must replace its counterpart in the following lists.
Note: The following list does not cover the deployment needs of the prerequisite and co-requisite software.
  • FEK.SFEKAUTH(*)
  • FEK.SFEKLPA(*)
  • FEK.SFEKPROC(*)
  • FEK.#CUST.PARMLIB(*)
  • FEK.#CUST.PROCLIB(*)
  • /usr/lpp/IBM/zexpl/*
  • /etc/zexpl/*
  • /var/zexpl/* (directory structure only)
  • optional parts:
    • FEK.#CUST.CNTL(*)
    • definitions, data sets, files, and directories resulting from customization jobs in FEK.#CUST.JCL
Note:
  • FEK and /usr/lpp/IBM/zexpl are the high-level qualifier and path used during the installation of z/OS Explorer. FEK.#CUST, /etc/zexpl and /var/zexpl are the default locations used during the customization of the product (see Customization setup for more information).
  • z/OS Explorer supports distributed Dynamic VIPA, where identical servers on different systems in a SYSPLEX can be presented to the client as a single server. See “Distributed Dynamic VIPA” in the Host Configuration Reference Guide (SC27-8438) for more details.
  • You should install z/OS Explorer in a private file system (HFS or zFS) to ease the deploying of the z/OS UNIX parts of the product. If you cannot use a private file system, use an archiving tool such as the z/OS UNIX tar command to transport the z/OS UNIX directories from one system to another. This method is for preserving the attributes (such as program control) for the z/OS Explorer files and directories.
    For more information about the following sample commands to archive and restore the z/OS Explorer installation directory, see UNIX System Services Command Reference (SA22-7802).
    • Archive: cd /SYS1/usr/lpp/IBM/zexpl; tar -cSf /u/userid/zexpl.tar
    • Restore: cd /SYS2/usr/lpp/IBM/zexpl; tar -xSpf /u/userid/zexpl.tar