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has installed to service the remote site. This allows savings on DASD, management, and
time at the central site.
System Manager for OS/400 provides central site control for:
• Remote AS/400 problem management
This includes remote problem analysis, comparison of existing available PTFs, automatic
distribution of selected PTFs, and a single connection to IBM electronic support for new
problem reporting, to IBM or Independent Software Vendor (ISV) for processing.
• Central site packaging of ISV applications for AS/400 Licensed Program management
support
This enables ISV applications to receive the same system support as IBM licensed
programs.
• Central site distribution and change management support for remote AS/400 systems
using MSS/400, remote RISC/6000 systems using NetView DM/6000, remote PS/2
systems using NetView DM/2, and remote Novell NetWare Servers using NVDM for
NetWare
SM/400 permits the central site AS/400 system to define, schedule, and track software
distribution (change management) requests sent to AS/400 systems with Managed
System Services/400, NetView DM/2, or NetView DM/6000 installed or Novell NetWare.
These change management requests include sending, receiving, and deleting files,
programs, other AS/400 objects (libraries, save files, message files, documents, folders,
PTFs), and non-AS/400 (OS/2 and RISC/6000) files, programs and software. The change
management functions support the integrated file system.
AS/400 objects can be sent directly to or received from AS/400 libraries or through the local
AS/400 distribution repository. Non-AS/400 objects can be received into, stored, and
distributed from the AS/400 distribution directory.
Running programs, installing software, applying PTFs, and re-IPLing can be scheduled to run
automatically on the remote system. The remote system running MSS/400, NetView DM/2,
NetView DM/6000 or Novell NetWare forwards the results of all change requests to the
central site SM/400 system for tracking.
The capability for the central site AS/400 to define, schedule, run these change requests one
time or repetitively, and track their status significantly enhances unattended operation of the
remote systems supported by SM/400.
Sending AS/400 commands to remote AS/400 systems using MSS/400 without signing on is
intended for unplanned operations to be performed on one or more remote AS/400 systems.
For example, deleting a particular file or library that has been found to no longer be in use.
The support is generally equivalent to the NetView Remote Operations Manager MVS
support and works with either NetView Remote Operations Agent/400 or MSS/400.
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