Example 1: Receiving SYSMODs and HOLDDATA

Periodically, you must install service and process the related HOLDDATA for functions on your system. IBM® supplies you with service and HOLDDATA on CBPDO tapes and ESO tapes. Both of these contain service and HOLDDATA, plus ++ASSIGN statements, which assign source IDs for PTFs that have been received.

When installing products and service, the first step is to receive the service and HOLDDATA into your SMP/E data sets. Here is a sample job that receives SYSMODs and HOLDDATA from a CBPDO and assigns them a source ID of PDO9824:

SET      BDY(GLOBAL)        /* Process global zone.     */.
RECEIVE  SOURCEID(PDO9824)  /* Receive SYSMODs and
                               assign SOURCEID.         */.

Besides receiving SYSMODs and HOLDDATA from the tape, SMP/E assigns a source ID of PDO9824 to the SYSMODs it has just received. In addition, it assigns the source IDs specified on the ++ASSIGN statements to SYSMODs that were just received or that had been previously received.

These source IDs can be specified later on the APPLY and ACCEPT commands to limit which SYSMODs should be installed.