Customization setup
z/OS® Explorer contains several sample configuration files and sample JCL. To avoid overwriting your customizations when applying maintenance, copy all of these members and z/OS UNIX files to a different location, and customize the copy.
Some functions of z/OS Explorer require
the existence of certain directories in z/OS UNIX, which must be created during
the customization of the product. To ease the installation effort,
a sample job, FEKSETUP
, is provided to create the
copies and the required directories.
FEKSETUP
job and the utility do some
of the same tasks, with no way of checking if those tasks have already
been performed. Therefore, it is possible to undo changes that have
already been made. For this reason, do not use both methods for a
single installation.To create customizable copies of configuration files and configuration
JCL, and to create required z/OS UNIX directories, customize and
submit the sample FEKSETUP
member in the FEK.SFEKSAMP
data
set. The required customization steps are described within the member.
- Create
FEK.#CUST.PARMLIB
and populate it with sample configuration files. - Create
FEK.#CUST.PROCLIB
and populate it with sampleSYS1.PROCLIB
members. - Create
FEK.#CUST.JCL
and populate it with sample configuration JCL. - Create
FEK.#CUST.CNTL
and populate it with sample server startup scripts. - Create
/etc/zexpl/*
and populate it with sample configuration files. - Create
/var/zexpl/*
as work directories for various z/OS Explorer functions, and populate it with sample files.
- The configuration steps in this publication use the member and
file locations created by the
FEKSETUP
job, unless noted otherwise. The original samples, which should not be updated, are inFEK.SFEKSAMP
and/usr/lpp/IBM/zexpl/samples/
. - For more details on which sample members are copied to which data
set, and for more details on which directories are created, their
permission bitmask, and where the various sample files are copied
to, see the comments in
FEK.SFEKSAMP(FEKSETUP)
. - To aid in migrating an existing setup, the comments in
FEK.SFEKSAMP(FEKSETUP)
also document the changes between different versions of z/OS Explorer. - If you want to keep all of the z/OS Explorer
z/OS
UNIX files in the same file system (HFS or zFS), but also want
the configuration files placed in
/etc/zexpl
, you can use symbolic links to solve this problem. The following sample z/OS UNIX commands create a new directory in the existing file system (/usr/lpp/IBM/zexpl/cust
) and define a symbolic link (/etc/zexpl
) to it:mkdir /usr/lpp/IBM/zexpl/cust ln –s /usr/lpp/IBM/zexpl/cust /etc/zexpl