CARS Maintenance with Z/OSMF

Products

• IDMS

Issue/Introduction

How to CARS with Z/OSMF.

Environment

Release : 19.0

Resolution

Applying CARs maintenance with z/OSMF works. It is not as we would expect with CSM.

First run internal retrieval services :

000061 //SMPCSI    DD   DISP=SHR,DSN=<yourHLQ>.CARS.CSI
 000062 //SMPLOG    DD SYSOUT=*
 000063 //SMPNTS   DD  PATHDISP=KEEP,
 000064 //             PATH='/plexc1/u/users/<userid>/RCVORDER'
 000065 //*
 000066 //SMPCNTL   DD   *
 000067    SET BOUNDARY(GLOBAL) .
 000068    RECEIVE ORDER(
 000069            CONTENT(RECOMMENDED)
 000070            WAIT(40)
 000071            ORDERSERVER(SMPORDSR)
 000072            CLIENT(SMPORDCL)
 000073            ).
 000075
 000076 //*   DELETEPKG.
 000077 //SMPORDSR DD *

Received RC=4. I went back into software update and found my CSI. Clicked refresh in the  lower left. Select the target zone for the CSI. It displays three options, Install corrective, Install recommended and Install functional. I clicked Install corrective and displayed working the displayed :

 

 

This is the content SMPOUT that should the syntax and followed by the list of PTFS.

 

 

This is the APPLY statement for z/OSMF

APPLY
 SOURCEID(RSU*
 SECINT
 HIPER
 CAR*
 RSL*
 PRP)
 GROUP
 BYPASS(HOLDFIXCAT
 HOLDSYSTEM
 HOLDUSER)
 CHECK