Tips to recover from the loss of SMP/E control datasets

Products

• Endevor

Issue/Introduction

The SMP/E control datasets are extremely important as they are required to install maintenance to the product.

If they are lost, you are forced to install again the base product and the maintenance.

This article contains some tips to help in this task

Resolution

Double check whether you keep a record of the fixes applied to Endevor. This would make the task much easier.

Don't forget to check whether you keep the SMP/E reports of the maintenances applied to Endevor. These reports mention the fixes that were applied in each run.

Also, if you follow the CARS (CA Recomended Service) methodology documented at Recommended Service for z/OS , it is easy to recover. Just apply the maintenance up to the CARS level that was installed onsite.

If none of these methods help, you'll need to manually determine what maintenance was applied in order to apply it again.

The CAMODID utility is a very useful tool for this purpose. For each program within each load module, it prints its current maintenance level. It is documented at Manage CAMODID in the Common Components online documentation

The commands to use for this purpose would be:

CAMODID DSN(your.CSIQAUTH.library)
CAMODID DSN(your.CSIQAUTH.library)

These commands produce a list of fixes. You need to apply all the fixes listed AND all their SMP/E prerequisites. An easy way to achieve this goal would be:

1. Download and receive all published fixes
2. specify the list of fixes in the SELECT operand of the APPLY command together with the GROUPEXTEND option