Resolving cross-zone requisites

If cross-zone requisites are bypassed and therefore cause unsatisfied cross-zone requisites, you must resolve those unsatisfied requisites. To do this, you need to APPLY or ACCEPT those requisites to the appropriate zones. To aid in this task, SMP/E provides a method to identify missing cross-zone requisite SYSMODs and make them candidates for APPLY and ACCEPT processing to resolve missing cross-zone requisites.

In order to select cross-zone requisite SYSMODs to be installed in a particular zone, the XZREQ operand can be used on the APPLY and ACCEPT commands. The XZREQ operand causes SMP/E to search the zones in the zone group for unsatisfied cross-zone requisites. If any are found which can be satisfied by installing a requisite SYSMOD to the current zone, those SYSMODs are made candidates for the APPLY and ACCEPT commands. Here is an example:

//job      JOBaccounting info…
//step     EXEC PGM=GIMSMP
//SMPCSI   DD DSN=smp.global.csi,DISP=SHR
//SMPCNTL  DD *
  SET BDY(cicstgt).
  APPLY CHECK
        BYPASS(HOLDSYS)
        XZREQ.
/*

Note: This example assumes that a default zone group was defined and will be used during APPLY command processing.

Using the XZREQ operand identifies and installs the needed cross-zone requisites. You can also use the REPORT CROSSZONE command to identify the needed cross-zone requisites. See the section on the REPORT CROSSZONE command in SMP/E for z/OS Commands for details.