Install of MF Connector results in having 'NOT SEL' mods during the APPLY process.

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• CA CIS
• CA Common Services for z/OS
• CA 90s Services
• CA Database Management Solutions for DB2 for z/OS
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• CA Easytrieve Report Generator for Common Services
• CA Infocai Maintenance
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• Unicenter CA-JCLCheck Common Component
• 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
• CA Compress Data Compression for MVS
• CA Compress Data Compression for Fujitsu

Issue/Introduction

Problem:

Trying to put in a new component, MF Connector, but the APPLY CHECK of FMID CC2D771 gives the following MODs to have 'NOT SEL':

ELEMENT SUMMARY REPORT FOR APPLY PROCESSING

 ELEMENT  ELEMENT  ELEMENT  CURRENT CURRENT DISTLIB  SYSLIB   ASSEM    LOAD     LMOD              SYSMOD  SYSMOD
 TYPE     NAME     STATUS   FMID    RMID    LIBRARY  LIBRARY  NAMES    MODULE   SYSLIB            NAME    STATUS

 MOD      GREXCLK  NOT SEL                  AC2DMOD                                               CC2D771 APPLIED
 MOD      GREXCM   NOT SEL                  AC2DMOD                                               CC2D771 APPLIED
 MOD      GREXCT   NOT SEL                  AC2DMOD                                               CC2D771 APPLIED
 MOD      GREXEQ   NOT SEL                  AC2DMOD                                               CC2D771 APPLIED
 MOD      GREXSRT  NOT SEL                  AC2DMOD                                               CC2D771 APPLIED
 MOD      GREXZA   NOT SEL                  AC2DMOD                                               CC2D771 APPLIED
 MOD      GRXERRT  NOT SEL                  AC2DMOD                                               CC2D771 APPLIED
 MOD      GRXEXCOM NOT SEL                  AC2DMOD                                               CC2D771 APPLIED
 MOD      GRXSVP   NOT SEL                  AC2DMOD                                               CC2D771 APPLIED

I have found that all the above MODs are owned by FMID: CCF3E00 (CA-GREXX).

As Mainframe Connector is part of the CA Common Services r14.1 package, we are trying to put it in the same SMP/e target zone. As a result of this conflict I am not sure how to proceed at this point.

 

Environment:

Any supported z/OS level

CA Common Services r14.1 with CA-GREXX installed.

 

Cause:

The CA Mainframe Connector install includes CA Management Services, which in turn delivers some common GREXX modules. None of this is actually utilized by Mainframe Connector which is a stand-alone STC that uses TCPIP to communicate with VM and Linux on one side and OPS/MVS or SOLVE:Operations on the other.

 

Resolution:

The preferred path is to install CA Mainframe connector in its own SMP/E CSI or Target Zone apart from CA GREXX.

 

Workaround:

If it was decided to install CA Mainframe Connector into the same environment as CA GREXX, you can ignore the fact that the above mentioned MODS were NOT SEL, but you may want to run some UCLIN to reset the DISTLIB value for these modules in event any new GREXX PTF is delivered that hits one of these MODS.

After the install you will see that the SMP/E zones were updated as follows:

 

             CSI CROSS-ZONE QUERY - ENTRY SELECTION           Row 1 to 3 of 3

 

  Entry Type:  MOD

  Entry Name:  GREXCLK

 

  To return to the previous panel, enter END .

 

  To select an entry from a zone, enter S next to the zone.

 

       * - Entry not found in zone.

      ** - Zone could not be allocated or is not initialized.

 

             -------------------- Status -----------------------------------

     ZONE     FMID     RMID     LASTUPD  DISTLIB  UMID(S)

     -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- --------

     CAID     CCF3E00  CCF3E00  CCF3E00  ACF3MOD0

     CAIT     CCF3E00  CCF3E00  CC2D771  AC2DMOD

     GLOBAL   *

 ******************************* Bottom of data ********************************

 

To "reset" the environment, here is some sample UCLIN:                                            

//SMPCNTL DD *                                    

SET BDY(CAIT).                                    

UCLIN.                                            

REP MOD(GREXCM) DISTLIB(ACF3MOD0) LASTUPD(CCF3E00)

                 FMID(CCF3E00) RMID(CCF3E00).     

ENDUCL.                                           

/*

Duplicate the above statements for each MOD listed above.

Environment

Release: CA90SV00200-14.1-Common Services-for z/OS
Component: