What is CA SMP/E Internet Service Retrieval Improved Delivery of Mainframe Maintenance (IBM SMP/E RECEIVE ORDER)?

Products

• Datacom
• DATACOM - AD
• CIS
• COMMON SERVICES FOR Z/OS
• 90S SERVICES
• DATABASE MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS FOR DB2 FOR Z/OS
• COMMON PRODUCT SERVICES COMPONENT
• Common Services
• CA ECOMETER SERVER COMPONENT FOC
• EASYTRIEVE REPORT GENERATOR FOR COMMON SERVICES
• INFOCAI MAINTENANCE
• IPC
• UNICENTER JCLCHECK COMMON COMPONENT
• Mainframe VM Product Manager
• CHORUS SOFTWARE MANAGER
• CA ON DEMAND PORTAL
• CA Service Desk Manager - Unified Self Service
• PAM CLIENT FOR LINUX ON MAINFRAME
• MAINFRAME CONNECTOR FOR LINUX ON MAINFRAME
• GRAPHICAL MANAGEMENT INTERFACE
• WEB ADMINISTRATOR FOR TOP SECRET
• Xpertware

Issue/Introduction

What is CA SMP/E Internet Service Retrieval Improved Delivery of Mainframe Maintenance (IBM SMP/E RECEIVE ORDER)? 

Environment

z/OS

Resolution

See Support.ca.com post "CA SMP/E Internet Service Retrieval Improved Delivery of Mainframe Maintenance"

https://support.ca.com/us/product-content/status/announcement-documents/2018/ca-smp-e-receive-order---maintenance-delivery-made-easy.html

"...  This new delivery method uses the IBM SMP/E RECEIVE ORDER command to acquire CA Mainframe product maintenance over the internet by securely submitting an order for PTFs and HOLDDATA to a remote CA Technologies server.  ..."  

Refer to CA SMP/E Internet Service Retrieval Documentation.