Easytrieve And Pan/SQL Are Required For The CIA Component Of Top Secret. Are These Separate Products? How Can A Site Acquire Them?

Products

• Top Secret
• Top Secret - LDAP

Issue/Introduction

Easytrieve and Pan/SQL are required for the CIA (Compliance Information Analysis) component of Top Secret. Are these separate products or part of something else? How can a site acquire them?

Environment

Release:
Component: TSSMVS

Resolution

The software prerequisites for Compliance Information Analysis (CIA) are documented here:

CIA Software Requirements

The CIA compliance reports distributed as part of the CIA Top Secret function are written in Easytrieve, a fourth-generation programming language product. Pan/SQL is required only for the CIA compliance reports. Pan/SQL is required only for the CIA compliance reports. The CA Common Services Easytrieve component calls Pan/SQL when the reports are run. Easytrieve Report Generator processes SQL statements using the Pan/SQL interface on the mainframe and internal interfaces in non-mainframe environments.

Easytrieve and Pan/SQL are separate no charge products that can be downloaded from the Top Secret MVS r16 download page in the Broadcom support portal 

Top Secret r16 Download Page

On the Top Secret download page:
- For Easytrieve 11.6, the file to download is:
CCS - EZTRVE REPORT GENERATOR B60000ESACS.pax.Z

- For PAN/SQL 2.4, the files to download are:
PAN/SQL PRODUCT TAPE COVER LET QI16159.pdf
PAN/SQL FOR DB2 PRODUCT TAPE 240203ESH02.ESD