DSM/SCM User's Guide

Managing Requests
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Submitting a Request
Submitting a Request
To initiate any task in DSM/SCM, submit a request. You initiate requests from dialog
boxes in the Planner Interface (Planner Interface) or menu commands in the Target
Interface (ZPHITI), from which you set up, schedule, and submit a batch process.
You can run multiple requests concurrently and check the status of requests. If you exit
DSM/SCM while a request is running, the request continues to run. You can reenter
DSM/SCM while the request is running or after it finishes. When you are logged on to
DSM/SCM, it displays status messages for requests.
Types of DSM/SCM Requests
The types of DSM/SCM requests are:
Scheduling a Request
For your convenience, you can schedule requests to run at any time:
1. From the dialog box on which you are preparing the request, click Scheduling.
DSM/SCM displays the Request Scheduling Options dialog box (Figure
16-1). This
dialog box presents two scheduling options: Now and Later.
Request Function For more information, see...
Receive
Software
Receive sof
tware from RVUs, SPRs,
or third-party distribution subvolumes
into the DSM/SCM archive.
Section 7, Receiving and Managing
Software Inputs.
Build or
Build/Apply
Build or Build/Apply a configuration
revision for a t
arget system and
receive a snapshot of the new
software from the target system.
Section 9, Building and Applying a
New Configuration.
Receive
Snapshot
Receive current st
atus of DSM/SCM-
managed files from a target system
into the host database. Requested on
a host system when systems do not
have an Expand connection or when
an independent snapshot is
requested on a target system.
Task 9: Transfer and Receive the
Snapshot Into the Host Database
on page 9-27.
Prepare
Reports and
Document
s
Format reports from the DSM/SCM
database, and format softdocs and
release documentation for printing or
viewing online.
Checking Softdocs and Release
Documents on page 8-10
Section
18, Generating DSM/SCM
Reports
Export
Product Files
Copy and convert files DSM/SCM
stored in internal archive format to
standard system files.
Exporting Files From the Archive on
page 17-24