Installing Zowe SMP/E overview
Installing Zowe SMP/E overview
This program directory is intended for system programmers who are responsible for program installation and maintenance. It contains information about the material and procedures associated with the installation of Zowe Open Source Project (Base). This publication refers to Zowe Open Source Project (Base) as Zowe.
End-to-end installation diagram
Zowe FMIDs
Zowe consists of the following FMIDs:
- AZWE002
Program materials
Basic Machine-Readable Materials are materials that are supplied under the base license and are required for the use of the product.
Basic machine-readable material
The distribution medium for this program is via downloadable files. This program is in SMP/E RELFILE format and is installed using SMP/E. See Installation instructions for more information about how to install the program.
Program source materials
No program source materials or viewable program listings are provided for Zowe in the SMP/E installation package. However, program source materials can be downloaded from the Zowe GitHub repositories at https://github.com/zowe/.
Publications useful during installation
Publications listed below are helpful during the installation of Zowe.
Publication Title | Form Number |
---|---|
IBM SMP/E for z/OS User's Guide | SA23-2277 |
IBM SMP/E for z/OS Commands | SA23-2275 |
IBM SMP/E for z/OS Reference | SA23-2276 |
IBM SMP/E for z/OS Messages, Codes, and Diagnosis | GA32-0883 |
These and other publications can be obtained from https://www.ibm.com/shop/publications/order.
Program support
This section describes the support available for Zowe.
Because this is an alpha release of the Zowe FMID package for early testing and adoption, no formal support is offered. Support is available through the Zowe community. See Community Engagement for details. Slack is the preferred interaction channel.
Additional support may be available through other entities outside of the Open Mainframe Project and Linux Foundation which offers no warranty and provides the package under the terms of the EPL v2.0 license.
Statement of support procedures
Report any problems which you feel might be an error in the product materials to the Zowe community via the Zowe GitHub community repo at https://github.com/zowe/community/issues/new/choose. You may be asked to gather and submit additional diagnostics to assist the Zowe Community for analysis and resolution.
Program and service level information
This section identifies the program and relevant service levels of Zowe. The program level refers to the APAR fixes that have been incorporated into the program. The service level refers to the PTFs that have been incorporated into the program.
Program level information
All issues of previous releases of Zowe that were resolved before August 2019 have been incorporated into this packaging of Zowe.
Service level information
The Zowe SMP/E package is a distribution of Zowe version 2.0.0 with an FMID of AZWE002.
Subsequent releases of the Zowe z/OS components are delivered as rollup PTFs on zowe.org.
Installation requirements and considerations
The following sections identify the system requirements for installing and activating Zowe. The following terminology is used:
- Driving System: the system on which SMP/E is executed to install the program.
- Target system: the system on which the program is configured and run.
Use separate driving and target systems in the following situations:
- When you install a new level of a product that is already installed, the new level of the product will replace the old one. By installing the new level onto a separate target system, you can test the new level and keep the old one in production at the same time.
- When you install a product that shares libraries or load modules with other products, the installation can disrupt the other products. By installing the product onto a separate target system, you can assess these impacts without disrupting your production system.
Driving system requirements
This section describes the environment of the driving system required to install Zowe.
Driving system machine requirements
The driving system can be run in any hardware environment that supports the required software.