PARMGEN PTF UA94193 for APAR OA53974 (4Q17 Interim Feature)

PARMGEN PTF UA94193 for APAR OA53974 (4Q17 Interim Feature) introduces several enhancements to PARMGEN Workflow User Interface applicable to all products that the PARMGEN configuration tool deploys.

Note that this APAR applies to all product versions. You do not have to upgrade to Tivoli® Management Services on z/OS® V6.3.0 Fix Pack 6 or later to take advantage of these features, but Tivoli Management Services V6.3.0 Fix Pack 6 or later is a prerequisite for the OMEGAMON® XE version 5.3.0 family of products on the distributed platform. Starting from OMEGAMON version 5.5.0 family products, Tivoli Management Services V6.3.0 Fix Pack 6 or later is a prerequisite on both distributed and z/OS platforms because the OMEGAMON V5.5.0 products are built on z/OS ITM 6.3.0 FP6 level of maintenance.

If you upgrade a monitoring agent and Tivoli Management Services, always review the topic Basic upgrade requirements. In this topic you can find information about any new PARMGEN profile parameters that you might need to add to your existing $GBL$USR global user profile for a product feature.

PARMGEN configuration framework enhancements and updates

The configuration software includes the following enhancements:
  • CUA-related best practice comments are added to the variables profile in GBL_USER_JCL. The comments indicate that CUA-related user symbols apply to OMEGAMON family products version 5.3.0 and earlier versions. Comments can be found in KCI$RTEV during RTE configuration.
  • KCIPDCOL no longer creates libraries with LRCL larger than BLKSIZE so that internal libraries that are created during temporary file allocation do not cause space issues.
  • Benign return code RC=20 is removed. The benign return code RC=20 was returned by job KCIJPDEL when the $LAST member is not in the GBL_USER_JCL dataset, or the first RTE created in the GBL_USER_JCL dataset is deleted.
  • BPX.SUPERUSER read access provides enough authority to run the KCIJPUSS job, batch job 7.
  • Additional checks are added in optional KCIJPSYS job to detect if RTE has OMEGAMON for IMS V530 installed but not configured. If so, the IEBCOPY step in COPYNODE/COPYPROC of KCIJPSYS generates the IEBCOPY control statement as a comment.
  • Product template for KOB$PENV in IKANPARU is enhanced to split lines and avoid KOB delimiter error message.

Product-specific enhancements

This release provides the following product-specific enhancements:
OMEGAMON for IMS
The following enhancements are added:
  • OMIMS CUA IEBCOPY is no longer generated by KCIJPSYS job for RTE that has no OMEGAMON for IMS.
  • IMS V15 support is added for BMP function in OMEGAMON for IMS V5.3.0 and V5.1.0 in OMEGAMON IMS KI2BLDLI stand-alone BMP link job. This enhancement does not apply to OMEGAMON for IMS V5.5.0 where the BMP function is dropped.
OMEGAMON for Storage
KDF and KS3 PDS V1 data sets are only needed for OMEGAMON for Storage v540 and earlier versions. After you apply the PTF, KDF and KS3 PDS V1 datasets will no longer be created for OMEGAMON for Storage V550. KxxAL and KxxPDICT members will still be generated in parameter dataset, and EXECs will be run at TEMS start-up.
OMEGAMON for DB2
The default values of OMEGAMON for DB2 parameters KD2_PF01_HIS_SEQ_TYP and KD2_PF01_HIS_SEQ_ARC_TYP are changed to dynamic.