CBL Product Suite for z/OS

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CBL Product Suite installation for z/OS is performed via SMP/E electronic delivery. Bootstrap install jobs, new features and installation documentation are itemised in the table below.

Links to documentation relating to use of the individual CBL Product Suite components may found in the documentation page.

As your first step to installing the CBL Product Suite, please read the README text file which includes bootstrap instructions that describe the different options for transferring the SMP/E product package to your z/OS host.

SMP/E product installation steps are documented in the CBL Product Suite 3.60 Program Directory, and product customistation steps, required to complete installation, are documented in the CBL Product Suite Customisation Guide.

The methods for electronic transfer of installation material are documented in detail in the README text file but are summarised as follows:

1. Directly transfer the product package materials from the CBL web server (via HTTPS or HTTP) to an HFS (or ZFS) directory on the z/OS host using either of the supplied job streams. (RFNJOBHS for transfer via HTTPS, or RFNJOBH for transfer via HTTP.)
   
   Whichever job is chosen, it should be copied to a member of a job library on the z/OS system, tailored for your local environment and submitted for batch processing. Job tailoring instructions are found in the comment data at the start of each member.
   
   In either job, if the "TRANSFERONLY" option is uncommented, then package material is simply transferred to the z/OS host. This is preferable if the CBL Product Suite is to be installed into a new SMP/E global CSI (Consolidated Software Inventory). Sample jobs to define a new SMP/E environment are provided in the product package and may be executed later as part of the SMP/E product installation procedure.
   
   Omit the "TRANSFERONLY" option if you intend to RECEIVE material directly into an existing SMP/E global CSI. Additionally, for installations running SMP/E 34.09 or later, uncomment/tailor the SMPJHOME and SMPCPATH DD statements to perform SHA-1 package integrity checking using Java.


2. If you are unable to transfer the SMP/E package material directly to your z/OS host from the CBL web server (perhaps because firewall restrictions prohibit it), then one of the product bundle archives (zip or pax.Z) may be downloaded to your local workstation as an alternative. Actions required following download of the two different archive formats are as follow:
   
   
   1. The zip archive must be unzipped to a folder of the Windows workstation before executing the supplied cblftpz.cmd Windows batch procedure to FTP the package material from the workstation to the z/OS host HFS directory.
   
   
   2. The pax.Z archive may be transferred from the Windows/Mac/Linux workstation to the z/OS host HFS directory and extracted using the z/OS Unix shell command, pax. (See README for sample pax utility extract archive command.)

Notes:

1. The product package includes all published service to CBL Product Suite and will be applied as part of the product installation.


2. SELCOPY for Windows may also be installed on Microsoft Windows workstations as part of the SELCOPY for z/OS, z/VSE and z/VM mainframe Licence Agreement.