Installation and verification

If you are migrating to existing subsystem definitions, it is required that you perform the following installation tasks:
  1. Load the tracker software (Step 1. Loading tracker software).
  2. Load the Z controller software (Step 2. Loading controller software).
  3. Load the NLS software (Step 3. Loading national language support software).
  4. Run the EQQJOBS CLIST (Step 4. Using the EQQJOBS installation aid).
  5. Install JES and SMF exits at IBM Z Workload Scheduler level (Step 5. Adding SMF and JES exits for event tracking).
  6. Update PARMLIB (Step 6. Updating SYS1.PARMLIB).
  7. Import the new default security certificates for HTTP connections (Step 8. Securing communications).
  8. Allocate VSAM and non-VSAM data sets (Step 9. Allocating data sets).
  9. Update the JCL procedure for the IBM Z Workload Scheduler address space (Step 10. Creating JCL procedures for address spaces).
  10. Update the initialization statements (Step 11. Defining the initialization statements).
  11. Update the ISPF environment (The ISPF environment).

Ensure that you follow the subsystem verification procedures described in Verifying your installation.

For migration, use the EQQICTOP conversion program described in EQQICTOP VSAM data set conversion program.
Note: Verify that all the IBM Z Workload Scheduler parameters defined in the previous release are still valid in the current release.