HP P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Software Mainframe Agent Installation and Configuration Guide

Contents

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

1 About P9000 mainframe agent ......................................................... 11

Why use P9000 mainframe agent ? ............................................................................................ 11

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

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

Application software requirements ........................................................................................ 12

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

System configuration example .................................................................................................... 13

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

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

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

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

2 Installing P9000 mainframe agent ...................................................... 17

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

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

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

Storage attributes of library datasets ..................................................................................... 19

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

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

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

Installation procedure ................................................................................................................ 20

Installing P9000 mainframe agent ........................................................................................ 20

Installing the REXX alternate libraries ..................................................................................... 21

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 P9000 mainframe agent ........................................................................................... 24

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

Checks before upgrading .................................................................................................... 25

Checking whether to upgrade Device Manager ............................................................... 25

Checking the user SVC number ...................................................................................... 25

Backing up datasets ........................................................................................................... 25

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

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

Removing the concatenation of cataloged procedure libraries ............................................ 26

Removing the concatenation of load libraries ................................................................... 26

Upgrading P9000 mainframe agent ..................................................................................... 26

Checking settings after upgrading ........................................................................................ 26

3 Setting up P9000 mainframe agent .................................................... 27

Mainframe Agent Installation and Configuration Guide 3