SDSF is required for ZOWE installation

Products

• Brightside

Issue/Introduction

Installed Zowe 2.14 using Brightside latest PSWI package. while submitting the initialization job (zwe init) from the zOSMF Configuration Workflow, It fails at VSAM initialization. The process submits a job to define a VSAM dataset and must get the result of this job. The VSAM definition job is correctly submitted, but it appears the opercmd.rex is only trying to use SDSF to issue commands to get the result of the job. The output of the job contains the following messages:

* Output:                                                                                      
     130 +++ cRC.isfInit=isfcalls('ON')                                                        
  IRX0043I Error running /XXX/XXX/zowe/bin/utils/opercmd.rex, line 130: Routine not found      
* Exit code: 255    

 

Is SDSF a pre-requisite to Zowe? 

Environment

ZOWE 2.14

Cause

Zowe document needs to be updated:

SDSF is required for "Addressing z/OS requirements" or the "Configuring" section in ZOWE document, as both sections are related to ZWE utility. 

Resolution

Workaround:

Follow the Zowe Server Command Reference Reference document to complete the Zowe initialization and assistance to submit commands manually. 
          

Run these sub-commands in sequence:

• zwe init mvs
• zwe init vsam
• zwe init apfauth
• zwe init security
• zwe init certificate
• zwe init stc