Using the installation menu

When you select an order to install, the Installation Menu is displayed (Figure 1). This panel is the starting point for all of the functions that are needed to install your order.

Figure 1. Panel: Installation menu

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  Complete these options to install the order:

     C    Create         Create the Work Configuration
     *    Variables      Specify Values for Variables
     *    Zones          Specify SMPTLIB and SMP/E Zone Names Information
     *    Modify         Modify the System Layout
     *    Alias          Specify Catalogs for High-Level Qualifiers
     *    SSA            Specify Temporary Aliases (SSAs) for Catalogs
     *    Installation   Create and Submit Installation Jobs
                         (Option not available until download complete)


  You can use Save any time after creating the work configuration:

     *    Save           Save the Current Work Configuration

At the beginning of a ServerPac installation, the only available function is Create. Each of the other functions (now marked with asterisks) becomes available after the previous function is completed.

The Installation Menu provides access to the dialog functions, as in the following list:

C

Create the work configuration: Use this option to create a work configuration for the order you are installing. You can choose to merge the order's shipped configuration with a configuration that you saved from a previous order. The new order, together with the saved configuration, if any, forms the work configuration that you manipulate in subsequent functions of the dialog.

For operating system orders, you are prompted to choose an installation method (full system replacement or a software upgrade) and select a job entry subsystem (JES) for the installation.

For more information, see Creating a work configuration for the order.

V

Specify values for variables: Installing your order involves generating and submitting batch jobs. In the Variables function, the dialog collects certain data that it uses to tailor the installation jobs. Using that function, you can alter data values for the variables and define your own user variables.

For more information, see Defining installation variables.

Z

Specify SMPTLIB and SMP/E Zone Names Information: Products and features delivered with your order are shipped using default target and DLIB zone names. The dialog allows you to define the target and DLIB zone names when installing your order. IBM® recommends that you use different zone names for each order. For more information, see Defining the SMP/E zone configuration.

This dialog also provides the SMS and non-SMS managed volumes support for the SMPTLIB DDDEF definition.

IBM also recommends that you use different CSI data set names for each order. To change the names of the CSI data sets, use the Modify System Layout function (see Modifying the system layout).

M

Modify the system layout: This function assigns the data sets in the work configuration to your installation's DASD volumes. You can assign these data sets manually, or you can allow the dialog to automatically assign the data sets in accordance with the recommended system layout described in z/OS Planning for Installation.

Using the Modify System Layout function, you can merge and modify data sets in the work configuration. Through the dialog's view and change facility, you can merge and modify data sets based on a variety of criteria, including data set size, secondary space allocation, volume placement, link list placement, and whether SMS is to be used for data set management. For more information, see Modifying the system layout.

A

Specify catalogs for high-level qualifiers: Use this function to specify the catalogs for each high-level qualifier (HLQ). Data sets shipped with your order are cataloged in the system's normal order of catalog search when they are created. Data sets to be cataloged in user catalogs will have different high-level qualifiers. Aliases for those qualifiers will be created in the master catalog, referencing the user catalogs. For more information, see Defining HLQ-to-catalog relationships.

SSA

Specify temporary aliases (SSAs) for catalogs: Use this function to define temporary high-level qualifiers (HLQs) for the data sets in your order. Initially, data set names include temporary HLQs, called system-specific aliases, or SSAs. Later, during the installation, the temporary HLQs are removed from the data set names. For more information, see Defining system-specific aliases (SSAs).

I

Create and submit installation jobs: The dialog creates installation jobs based on the options you chose in previous steps of the dialog. Use this function to submit the jobs and track their execution. For more information, see Submitting the installation jobs.

S

Save the current work configuration: During the installation of your order, you customize the shipped order configuration to suit your needs. To save yourself from having to repeat this customization for future orders, use this function to save your changes (see Saving the configuration).