Performing SMP/E installation tasks

This section lists the pre-installation tasks required to install the UMS.

Before you begin with the installation, you must complete the following tasks:
  1. Choose whether you will install the SMP/E components on a separate read-only file system.
  2. Run SMP/E:
    1. Refer to the IBM® Unified Management Server for z/OS® Program Directory and validate if hardware and software requirements are met.
    2. Validate if prerequisite software is installed.
    3. Run the SMP/E installer using instructions provided in the IBM Unified Management Server for z/OS Program Directory.
  3. Note down the USS extraction folder used for SMP/E installation. The folder path name will need to be specified in ZWEYAML parameter components.izp.runtimeDirectory when you perform post-SMP/E installation. For details, see Item 2: Identify the UMS z/OS UNIX System Services directories.
  4. UMS Zowe plug-ins require Program Control authorization. In order to tag the files with this bit, the SMP/E install user requires BPX.FILEATTR.PROGCTL permission on the system. If the install user does not have this permission, SMP/E will install the UNIX System Services files without the bit set, after attempting to extract paxes with the bit set. Even when the install user has permissions and the program control bit is properly set, if the SMP/E results are copied to another file system, the program control bit might not be retained.

    • To remedy this problem, a user with write access and BPX.FILEATTR.PROGCTL permission must run the following UNIX System Services commands:

      1. Set your working directory to the UMS runtime directory as installed by SMP/E using the cd command. This is the value you specified as components.izp.runtimeDirectory in PARMLIB(ZWEYAML).
      2. Run the following command to change the attributes on all plug-in shared objects:
        extattr +p */zssServer/lib/*
Note: If you are using spool management or archive system, ensure that the jobs submitted by this product are not immediately removed from the spool. Jobs should remain in the spool for the duration of the operation, which may be several minutes.

If you are installing Db2® DevOps Experience, you also need to install the FMIDs (H0IHD10 and H25GD10). These are included with the restricted license for Db2 DevOps Experience, or you can reuse an existing installation of Db2 Administration Tool and Db2 Object Comparison Tool. The HLQs are required for the libraries of FMIDs (H0IHD10 and H25GD10) during installation, see Step 2: Installing Unified Management Server.