SMP/E calls utility programs to install SYSMODs in the target and distribution libraries. These utilities must reside in either the LNKLST concatenation or the link pack area (LPA), as defined in SYS1.PARMLIB. SMP/E uses default utility programs unless you define OPTIONS entries and UTILITY entries specifying other utilities and parameters.

• OPTIONS entries point to the specific UTILITY entry to be used for each type of utility. These are the types of utilities you can point to:
  • Access methods services
  • Assembler
  • Compress
  • Copy
  • Link-edit
  • Retry after x37 abends
  • Update
  • Superzap
• Each UTILITY entry defines the information to be used when invoking a specific type of utility:
  • The name of the utility program
  • The maximum utility return code that SMP/E should consider to be successful
  • The ddname to be used for utility output
  • Parameters to be passed to the utility