The BUILDMCS command provides facilities to help copy a product from one SMP/E environment and install it into another. The BUILDMCS command is not intended to be used with all products. It is intended to be used for products that have no intersections with other products. These intersections come in two forms:

1. Shared Load Modules

   A shared load module is any load module that contains modules from more than one product. If the product to be copied supplies modules that reside in load modules along with modules from other products, then that product has shared load modules.

2. Common Elements

   A common element is any element with the same name and type that is supplied by more than one product. One product may take ownership of the element from another product using the VERSION operand.

If a product has either of these types of intersections with another product, the BUILDMCS command output for that product might be incorrect, because SMP/E does not have enough information in the zone entries to correctly create a corresponding superseding function SYSMOD.