REXX or JCL for find FMID and Product version

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REXX or JCL for find FMID and Product version

Postby dharmenibm1 » Mon Nov 02, 2015 9:24 pm

Hello,

z/os - 1.13

i want to make inventory of all products which are installed in Mainframe .

ex. - product name , version , FMID , license key

can anyone help me to get these list through Rexx or JCL ?

I have tried with SET BOUNDARY(GLOBAL).

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Re: REXX or JCL for find FMID and Product version

Postby Robert Sample » Mon Nov 02, 2015 10:12 pm

Your task will be complicated -- different vendors have different SMP/E data sets, so you cannot expect to get everything from one SMP/E query. You will probably have at least as many queries as SMP/E CSI files (some vendors store more than one product in a CSI, some store a single product per CSI). Furthermore, you almost certainly will NOT get license key data from SMP/E. Compuware, for example, uses a License Management System (LMS) which is entirely separate from SMP/E. CA uses a different licensing system but it, too, has nothing to do with SMP/E. Many product vendors tie their license key to the CPC serial number, but there are many, many, many ways to do this. And some vendors do not install through SMP/E (I used to support Trend Micro on a z/Architecture box, and its installation process started by putting a CD into your PC and transferring binary data files to the mainframe).

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Re: REXX or JCL for find FMID and Product version

Postby dharmenibm1 » Mon Nov 02, 2015 10:29 pm

Hello Robert

thanks for reply.

let's we forget about CA products. just need to get list of ibm products. and we have one global zone. so i tried this program.

SET BOUNDARY(global).
list feature.

but i got warning that FEATURE parameter is not found.

can we get only list of IBM product with Version through any JCL or rexx?

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Re: REXX or JCL for find FMID and Product version

Postby Robert Sample » Mon Nov 02, 2015 11:53 pm

Have you tried just LIST? Or maybe LIST FMIDSET?


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