Operational considerations

PARMLIB product configuration

For more information on changing a PARMLIB member, configuring BMC AMI mainframe products, using a non-default CMSC or parameter suffix value, and implementing the zIIP Enablement Service, see the CMSC Administration section in this topic.

Copying sample PARMLIB members

Copy the provided sample to your site’s common PARMLIB data sets for BMC.

Updating the CMSC with PARMLIB information

1. Make your product’s PARMLIB members available in the //CWPARM concatenation of the BMC AMI Common Mainframe Services Controller (CMSC). The PARMLIB data set can be allocated as either a PDS or a PDSE.

2. After making changes to your PARMLIB members, use the z/OS MODIFY command to update the CMSC with the changes you made to the PARMLIB member.

   Warning

   Important

   The MODIFY command requires proper OPERATOR authority.

   The verb MODIFY can be abbreviated, F.

   Refreshing all PARMLIB Members:

   F cmscname,PARMLIB REFRESH

   Refreshing a Single Parameter Member:

   F cmscname,PARMLIB REFRESH member_name

   For example, you updated the parameters in member FACM00:

   F cmscname,PARMLIB REFRESH FACM00

3. Specify the name of CMSC PARMLIB members DDSNnnnn (default is DDSN00, or the specified default in your site’s CMSC start-up) with the DDNAMEs and DATASET NAMEs of all BMC AMI products, such as File-AID, BMC AMI DevX Code Debug for TSO, BMC AMI DevX Abend-AID, etc. A sample is located in hlq.SLCXCNTL(DDSN00). 
   DDSNnnnn provides the names of BMC run-time libraries installed at your site. You will need the DDSNnnnn names if you wish to use Simple Deploy for configuring your BMC AMI mainframe products.

CMSC administration

BMC AMI mainframe products use parameter libraries, or PARMLIBs for setting their configuration and customizations values. We recommend storing your site’s PARMLIB members in a common library. A copy of your product’s parameter files must reside in the //CWPARM concatenation of the BMC AMI Common Mainframe Services Controller (CMSC).

The CWPARM is the DD from which the CMSC retrieves the parameters. This DD is a concatenated list of all data sets containing the PARMLIB members for each of the BMC AMI mainframe products. The CMSC will only read members into storage that contain the product prefixes specified in BMC AMI product PARMLIB member parameters. Sample parameter files provided in SLCXCNTL may be copied to the desired CWPARM data set and then modified to site-specific requirements.

CMSC start-up parameters (BMC AMI product PARMLIB member parameters) specify the default 1 to 4 character suffix for all the BMC AMI product PARMLIB members. If the parameter value for a given product is omitted (null or blank), the default suffix will default to 00.

The product parameter is specified followed by the equal sign, and then the 1 to 4 character suffix (for example: LMCL=01 points to PARMLIB member LMCL01).

BMC AMI product PARMLIB member parameters

Product PARMLIB Member Parameters	Two-Character Product Code Override	Product
AABD	AB	BMC AMI DevX Abend-AID BDCAS
AADC	AD	BMC AMI DevX Abend-AID DCAS
AAFA	AF	BMC AMI DevX Abend-AID Fault Analytics
AATD	AT	BMC AMI DevX Abend-AID TDCAS
AAVW	AV	BMC AMI DevX Abend-AID Viewer
CMSC	--	BMC AMI Common Mainframe Service Controller
CSS	CX	BMC AMI Common Shared Services
CWGL	--	BMC Global Parameters
DDSN	DD	Simple Deploy
FACM	FC	File-AID Common Component
FADA	DA	BMC AMI DevX File-AID/Data Solutions
FADE	F1	File-AID DB2 Environment Information
FAMV	FA	BMC AMI DevX File-AID/MVS
FAFR	FR	BMC AMI DevX File-AID/RDX
FAFD	FD	BMC AMI DevX File-AID for Db2
FAIE	FE	File-AID IMS Environment Information
FAIX	FI	BMC AMI DevX File-AID for IMS
HCI	HC	Host Communications Interface
IWCM	IM	Code Pipeline Server
IWCT	IT	Code Pipeline Component Transport task
IWCI	II	Code Pipeline Communications Interface task
HSCM	QF	BMC AMI DevX Performance Test
LMCL	LM	License Management Client
STR	SB	BMC AMI Strobe
XATZ	--	BMC AMI DevX Total Test Functional Test
XVGB	X1	BMC AMI DevX Code Debug for CICS Code Coverage
XDGB	X2	BMC AMI DevX Code Debug for CICS Global
XDDB	X3	BMC AMI DevX Code Debug for CICS DBPA
XD$$	X4	BMC AMI DevX Code Debug for CICS Index member
XCHG	XG	BMC AMI DevX Xchange
XTSO	XT	BMC AMI DevX Code Debug for TSO
XCOV	XV	BMC AMI DevX Code Coverage
XVGB	X1	BMC AMI DevX Code Debug for CICS Code Coverage
XDGB	X2	BMC AMI DevX Code Debug for CICS Global
XDDB	X3	BMC AMI DevX Code Debug for CICS DBPA
XCHG	XG	BMC AMI DevX Xchange
XTSO	XT	BMC AMI DevX Code Debug for TSO

Validating PARMLIB member contents

Program MSCUPRMD is a PARMLIB utility that employs the current CMSC API to display a PARMLIB member's contents as they are known to the CMSC. MSCUPRMD is a TSO command processor so it is recommended that this program reside in the linklist.

If the command is issued from native TSO, the data is displayed to the screen. If the command is issued in ISPF, the data is displayed in a temporary data set.

The MSCUPRMD command can display the active BMC BMC Global Parameter member by specifying values of either CWGL or GLOBAL as the name of the PARMLIB member.

Command syntax

where,

• member_name  represents the name of the PARMLIB member you wish to display. It is a required keyword and its value cannot exceed 8 characters in length.
• CWGL is the prefix attributed to the global parameter member.
• GLOBAL is the value given to display the global parameter member
• cmsc_id is the name of the CMSC that the PARMLIB member is defined to. Its value must be 4 characters in length and will default to a value of 'CMSC', if omitted.