Specifying attributes of the temporary SMP/E work data sets

You must define the attributes of the temporary SMP/E work data sets, SMPWRK1, SMPWRK2, SMPWRK3, SMPWRK4, and SMPWRK6, for the following CICS® Transaction Server jobs: DFHINSTJ, DFHINST6, DFHLPUMD, DFHSMPE, and EYULPMOD.

Define the attributes of those SMP/E data sets on the SMPWORK parameter:

The CICS Transaction Server jobs used to install CICS Transaction Server for z/OS® have DD statements for the SMP/E data sets that they must know about.

SMPWORK disktype

The UNIT parameter for the disk that is to contain the temporary SMP/E work data sets, SMPWRK1, SMPWRK2, SMPWRK3, SMPWRK4, and SMPWRK6, required to install CICS Transaction Server.

Do not allocate the SMPWRK6 data set to Virtual I/O (VIO). If you specify a value for disktype, ensure that SMPWRK6 cannot be allocated to VIO.

If you specify a value for disktype, or omit the SMPWORK parameter altogether, //SMPWRKn DD statements are added to the following jobs generated by the DFHISTAR job:

• DFHINSTJ
• DFHLPUMD
• DFHSMPE

If you specify NO, a period (.), or a null string, CICS Transaction Server assumes that SMP/E knows about the temporary SMP/E work data sets. To define the attributes of the SMP/E work data sets, you must do one of the following tasks:

• Provide appropriate DDDEFS for the temporary SMP/E work data sets.
• Apply the SMP/E sample usermod (SMP0001) that contains superzap statements for updating the default attributes of the SMP/E data sets in the GIMMPDFT module.

  The GIMMPDFT module, which is part of SMP/E, defines the default attributes of SMP/E data sets, and can be used to dynamically allocate data sets to be used by all zones. For more information about the entries in the GIMMPDFT module and the sample entry values in the usermod SMP0001, see SMP/E for z/OS Reference.