Method to make smp/e based products self describing
AssigneeBMC Software, Inc.
InventorDAVID DAVIES
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Abstract
Systems and methods of providing information from run-time installations of mainframe SMP/E based products. Information is embedded into a fingerprint library. The fingerprint library may then be associated with a product installed via SMP/E. The fingerprint library may then remain with the product when it is copied to its distributed location. A system administrator may later query the run-time installation and retrieve information previously only known to the SMP/E tool in an SMP/E controlled installation. In one embodiment, information may be embedded into a fingerprint library at product build time.
Claims20
A mainframe computer comprising:
- a programmable control device;
- and
- a product build process;
- wherein the programmable control device is programmed to execute the product build process to perform the acts of—
- collect product function attributes from the product build definition pertaining to an installation bundle to use as input to the system modification program extend (SMP/E) application,
- detect product function attributes information from the product build process,
- convert at least a portion of the collected and detected attributes information into a structured format,
- update a fingerprint library with the converted information, and
- create an installation bundle including the fingerprint library in a format acceptable as input to the SMP/E application.
A method of maintaining product function attributes information across multiple logical partitions (LPARs) of a mainframe environment comprised of one or more mainframe computers, the method comprising:
- on one or more mainframe computers comprising one or more LPARs and one or more programmable processing units configured to execute programs and updates via installation bundles;
- receiving, on a second LPAR, a copy of a result of installing an installation bundle on a first LPAR wherein the first LPAR was installed via a system modification program extend (SMP/E) application wherein the second LPAR becomes configured with an update from the installation bundle installed on the first LPAR;
- querying files, on the second LPAR, to detect one or more fingerprint libraries;
- extracting information from the one or more fingerprint libraries;
- and
- returning at least a portion of the extracted information for presentation to a system administrator.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.