we are using SMP/E PMA to build a report about the products applied
in our CSI. For some of the FMIDs the report does not give order
information...
My question now is: Why does this happen, even for fairly new
productsfor example PSF V4.5.0 and is there a way to add the required
information subsequently?
Typically the "order information" used for the PMA report comes from
PRODUCT and FEATURE entries found in the SMP/E global zone. These are
created when ++PRODUCT and ++FEATURE statements are processed by the
RECEIVE command. The "order information" can also come from the
ServerPac order inventory, but that is really an historical artifact
used in the early days before PRODUCT and FEATURE entries were prevalent.
If your global zone does not have the PRODUCT or FEATURE entries for
PSF, and if you did not provide PMA with a ServerPac order inventory,
then that is why PSF appears in the report under the heading "FMIDs
Without Order Information."
So, the first stop in debugging is to query or LIST your global zone and
look for PRODUCT and FEATURE entries. If the entries for PSF exist,
then query or LIST the SYSMOD entries for the FMIDs, and look for the
FEATURE subentries. These subentries connect the installed FMID to the
FEATURE and PRODUCT entries in the global zone.
Your next step to fix this will depend on your findings, so post 'em
here, or send me an email directly.
Kurt Quackenbush -- IBM, SMP/E Development
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