System requirements

Before you install the product, make sure that your environment meets the hardware and software requirements.

Planning

Product compatibility matrix

System requirements

BMC Discovery for z/OS links your mainframe operations to the discovery data model by means of a mainframe agent that works with a BMC Helix Discovery and Dependency Mapping server to discover mainframe objects and create Configuration Items (CIs) for the BMC Configuration Management Database (BMC CMDB) classes.

The BMC Helix Discovery and Dependency Mapping application wizard initiates the discovery process from the BMC Helix Discovery server. The objects that are discovered on the mainframe are transformed into XML streams and sent to the discovery server. The mainframe objects are then reconciled and synchronized with BMC CMDB.

Note

The following conditions apply:

  • If the MVS.MCSOPER OPERCMDS class profile is defined, the CAS and Discovery PAS user ID needs READ access to security resource MVS.MCSOPER, as follows:

    PERMIT MVS.MCSOPER.* CLASS(OPERCMDS) ID(<userid>) ACCESS(READ)

  • For MVI version 6.3, the CAS and Discovery PAS user ID must have RACF authority to SUPERUSER.PROCESS.GETPSENT resource in the UNIXPRIV class in order to discover all UNIX processes as follows:

    PERMIT SUPERUSER.PROCESS.GETPSENT CLASS(UNIXPRIV) ACCESS(READ) ID(<userId>)

BMC Discovery for z/OS has the following prerequisites:

  • BMC Discovery version 11.3 or higher
  • z/OS 2.2 or later

Note

If your devices do not support an IOSCDR macro, they will not be reported on. (This problem is known to occur with some SDK 348S tape drives.) 

The Discovery PAS user ID might need the following RACF authority PERMITs depending on the SDSF RDEFINEs you use:

  • To allow Discovery PAS access to the SDSF DA command, issue the following:

    PERMIT ISFCMD.DSP.ACTIVE.JES2 CLASS(SDSF) ID(<userid>) ACCESS(READ)

  • To allow Discovery PAS access to all job classes, issue the following:

    PERMIT ISFJOBCL.** CLASS(SDSF) ID(<userid>) ACCESS(READ)

  • To allow Discovery PAS access to read all SDSF job output, issue the following:

    PERMIT *.** CLASS(JESSPOOL) ID(<userid>) ACCESS(READ)

For instructions about how to install these products, see the following documents:

For complete system requirements, see thePlanning section.


 

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