How to find whether a product or a product component is running on the system

Products

• ESP Workload Automation

Issue/Introduction

When it is necessary to check if a product or product component and the its release is running on the system or not.

For example, you are running the Broadcom Workload Automation ESP product and curious whether the REST API or ESP Web UI component is in use.

Resolution

When the product includes the SCRT and feature registration services, the product can be located by issuing FXE command in SYSVIEW on the system. The FXE command displays information about vendors, products, and functions in the IBM Function Registry for z/OS.                   

Here is the CA Workload Automation ESP product as an example:

scrolling a bit to the right, it is possible to find different functions of that particular product:

The output is possible to obtain by JCL to print the product out of SYSVIEW using the utility FXEPRINT.

An example :
//FXEPRINT JOB (########),'FXE ',NOTIFY=&SYSUID,    
//             REGION=0M,MSGCLASS=A,CLASS=A         
//*                                                 
//STEP1    EXEC PGM=FXEPRINT                        
//SYSOUT   DD    SYSOUT=*,DCB=LRECL=80              
//SYSIN    DD    DUMMY        

 

The information provided by SYSVIEW is also available by PROD command under SDSF: 

• /D PROD, REG           ----> list of all the product registered
• /D PROD, STATE        ----> status of the product.
  
  

One note : If you have z/OS 3.2 the FXE table can be displayed via the SDSF FXE command.