When to use AW1IMPRT vs AW1ID001 when installing a new release of CAIENF for Event Recording

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CA CIS CA Common Services for z/OS CA 90s Services CA Database Management Solutions for DB2 for z/OS CA Common Product Services Component CA Common Services CA ecoMeter Server Component FOC CA Easytrieve Report Generator for Common Services CA Infocai Maintenance CA IPC Unicenter CA-JCLCheck Common Component CA LDAP Server for z/OS CA Mainframe VM Product Manager CA Chorus Software Manager CA On Demand Portal CA Service Desk Manager - Unified Self Service CA PAM Client for Linux for zSeries CA Mainframe Connector for Linux on System z CA Graphical Management Interface CA Web Administrator for Top Secret CA CA- Xpertware MF - MISC OLD CODES SERVICE ASSURE Generic Uniservice for CICS Generic Uniservice II CA Output Management Web Viewer

Issue/Introduction

  • Many customers use the CAIENF component of r14.1 or r15.0 Common Services for z/OS to record events on behalf of other mainframe products. 
  • In order to record successfully, Common Services requires a unique plan name to be stored in the Database.
    • Plan name reflects Common Services release in use 
    • r14.1 or r15.0  
  • The CAW0JCL for each release has two members that can be used write the correct plan name to the ENF MUF
    • AW1ID001
    • AW1IMPRT 

Which member should be used to write the plan to the ENF MUF?

Cause

Customers can be unsure of which job to use.

Environment

Product: Common Services for z/OS r14.1 or r15.0 
Component:  CAIENF 

Resolution

  • Major factor to determine the job to use 
    • Create new database for new release of CCS/ENF
      • AW1ID001
    • Reuse current database with new release of  CCS/ENF
      • AW1IMPRT
  • AW1ID001 
    • Create new ENF MUF
      • Run necessary Datacom jobs to create new MUF for ENF
      • Run AW1ID001
        • 4 functions of AW1ID001
          • Install ENF DBID (0700) into new MUF 
          • Define the ENF MUF DBID (0700) to Datacom/AD
          • Validate the ENF DB definitions and initialize
          • Import the new ENF plan into the new database
  • AW1IMPRT
    • Prior to taking any action with the current MUF before upgrade to CCS r15.0
      • Ensure that r14.1 PTFs RO54507 and RO55938 are applied 
      • Published in 2013
      • PE'd by RO55938
      • If not installed and holddata followed, upgrade to r15.0 will fail 
    • Reuse current ENF MUF
    • 1 function
      • Import new ENF plan into existing MUF
      • No impact upon current plan 
        • Just adds new plan
        • Current plan not overlaid  or deleted 
    • Job can be run before initializing newer release of CCS/ENF 
      • Older release active (r14.1) and using MUF  
      • No action necessary other than to run AW1IMPRT  
    • If new release of CCS (r15.0) installed and active
      • Add the new plan before attempting to start ENF
        • ENF will fail if new plan not present
      • ENF cannot be using the MUF
        • If MUF started externally using Datacom
          • Start MUF externally using ADxxStart
          • Run AW1IMPRT
          • Start ENF
        • If ENF using ENFPARM of IMUF
          • Start MUF externally using ADxxSTRT
          • Run AW1IMPRT
          • Stop the MUF using ADxxSTOP 
          • Start ENF with IMUF

Additional Information

Refer to the Common Services for z/OS documentation for details on the setup of ENF for use with Datacom/AD 
If needed apply RO54507
PE'd by RO55938 

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