HP XP7 Command View Advanced Edition Mainframe Agent Installation and Configuration Guide (TK981-96005, May 2014)

Contents

Preface ................................................................................................ 9

1 About XP7 mainframe agent .............................................................. 11

Why use XP7 mainframe agent ? ................................................................................................ 11

Installation requirements ............................................................................................................ 11

Operating system requirements ............................................................................................ 11

Application software requirements ........................................................................................ 11

Prerequisite equipment ........................................................................................................ 12

System configuration example .................................................................................................... 12

Using Device Manager to view storage information ................................................................ 13

Using Replication Manager to monitor PPRC copy pairs .......................................................... 13

Using Device Manager to view storage information and Replication Manager to monitor PPRC

copy pairs ......................................................................................................................... 14

2 Installing XP7 mainframe agent .......................................................... 17

Installation overview .................................................................................................................. 17

Pre-installation checks ................................................................................................................ 17

Provided datasets ............................................................................................................... 18

Storage attributes of library datasets ..................................................................................... 18

Memory requirements ......................................................................................................... 19

For linkage with Device Manager: ................................................................................. 19

For linkage with Replication Manager: ........................................................................... 19

Installation procedure ................................................................................................................ 19

Installing XP7 mainframe agent ............................................................................................ 19

Settings for using the YKALCSVC command ........................................................................... 21

Registering a user SVC ........................................................................................................ 22

Using IEASVCxx parmlib member to register ................................................................... 22

Using the YKALCSVC command to register ...................................................................... 23

Settings for using the YKP2A command ................................................................................. 24

Upgrading XP7 mainframe agent ................................................................................................ 24

Notes for upgrading ........................................................................................................... 24

Checks before upgrading .................................................................................................... 24

Checking whether to upgrade Device Manager ............................................................... 24

Checking the user SVC number ...................................................................................... 24

Backing up datasets ........................................................................................................... 24

Pre-upgrade procedure ....................................................................................................... 25

Deleting the user SVC .................................................................................................. 25

Removing the concatenation of cataloged procedure libraries ............................................ 25

Removing the concatenation of load libraries ................................................................... 25

Upgrading XP7 mainframe agent ......................................................................................... 25

Checking settings after upgrading ........................................................................................ 25

3 Setting up XP7 mainframe agent ........................................................ 27

Setting the TCP/IP port number ................................................................................................... 27

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