For any product install, the SMPE Libraries are critical. I do not think you can just build an SMP/E environment without them
So you are saying all of the SMP/e environment for this product is gone. Then the client may be in a bad place. As stated, see if a friendly IBM Account manager can help. But you cannot receive any maintenance without the CSI/TLIBs/DLIBs The JCLIN would be critical for SMP/E to know what to do with the "parts" Lizette > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of > Jackson, Rob > Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 5:03 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Kind of lame SMP/E question > > "Readily" and "relatively easy" will probably not apply here, so the answers > are not likely and nope. > > You could dummy up a function/functions and receive the PTFs against it/them, > but that won't buy you much other than metadata. Even in IBM, things are > packaged differently, but I would expect the sysmods would be compacted. To > expand them, you would use GIMCPTS, and then you could figure out how to use > the necessary utilities to install them--and pay attention to the order, of > course. Depending on the number of sysmods, that could really be a hag. > > Which product? I'm very curious. More appealing alternatives might be to > contact your ever-changing IBM rep, if you can figure out who it is, or a > VAR. Or, someone on this list: if they have it, and it's current, then you > might be able to get somewhere without violating any license agreement: CSI, > etc./TLIBs/DLIBs . . . done. I'd trust something packaged up by someone else > much more than something I hacked together from raw sysmods, unless it were > fewer than or equal to approximately two. > > First Tennessee Bank > Mainframe Technical Support > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of > Charles Mills > Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 6:42 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Kind of lame SMP/E question > > [External Email] > > I have a client who is licensed for and has installed a particular IBM > software product on z/OS. The product is out of marketing but still in > service. They have all the actual product libraries but managed apparently to > delete the SMP/E datasets some time ago. They now need to apply a set of PTFs > but are of course unable to do so without the SMP/E datasets. They cannot re- > order the product because it is out of marketing. > > I am a self-confessed SMP/E ignoramus. Is there some way to readily create a > minimal SMP/E environment that would be "good enough"? Is there a relatively > easy way to apply PTFs outside of SMP/E? Yeah, I know the questions are kind > of lame, but I am outside of my comfort zone here and trying to help someone > solve a problem. > > Thanks much, > Charles > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to > lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN FIRST TENNESSEE > > Confidentiality notice: > This e-mail message, including any attachments, may contain legally > privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended > recipient(s), or the employee or agent responsible for delivery of this > message to the intended recipient(s), you are hereby notified that any > dissemination, distribution, or copying of this e-mail message is strictly > prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately > notify the sender and delete this e-mail message from your computer. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to > lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
