GIMXSID software inventory data service routine

GIMXSID is an SMP/E service routine to produce software inventory data. It is used as part of the IBM ShopzSeries offering, and can be used more generally to produce software inventory data. GIMXSID creates a single data source required by ShopzSeries to place customized software product and service orders. The data source created by GIMXSID, the software inventory data, is a composite of three kinds of information as follows:

Feature list

a list of FEATUREs found in the SMPCSI data sets. The Feature List is used by ShopzSeries to perform product requisite checking and also to prime the order checklist when ordering a ServerPac.

FMID list

a list of the FMIDs found in the SMPCSI data sets. The FMID List is used by ShopzSeries to scope service orders to the PTFs applicable solely to the user's desired configuration of target and global zones.

PTF list

a list of the PTFs found in the specified target zones and global zones. The PTF list is used by ShopzSeries to produce service packages that do not contain PTFs that are already present in the user's configuration.

GIMXSID is an independent load module residing in the MIGLIB library. It has an addressing mode of 31 (AMODE=31), a residence mode of 24 (RMODE=24), and is not authorized (AC=0). GIMXSID runs independently from the rest of SMP/E processing.