Open System Services Installation Guide (G06.24+, H06.03+, J06.03+)

OSSSETUP Utility

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Modes of Running OSSSETUP

You can run OSSSETUP in either of these modes:

•

DEFAULTS (Noninteractive) Mode, which:

Asks you no questions

Gives your OSS subsystem the default configuration

Requires only one storage resource (a disk volume named $OSS)

No longer requires the ZOSSUTL subvolume to be on the $SYSTEM volume if

the EASYSETUP^EMSVOL param is used

For more information, see Running in DEFAULTS (Noninteractive) Mode on

page 2-4.

For information about default configuration, see Appendix A, Default OSS

Configurations,

•

Interactive Mode, which:

Asks you questions

Gives you more control over installation parameters

Might require more than one storage resource

Allows the ZOSSUTL subvolume to be on any volume, which you must specify

For more information, see Running in Interactive Mode on page 2-5.

Status and Error Messages

The status messages that OSSSETUP displays are described in Appendix B, OSS

EasySetup Status Messages.

The error messages that OSSSETUP displays are described in Appendix C, OSS

EasySetup Error Messages.

Command to Run OSSSETUP

The syntax of the OSSSETUP command is:

DEFAULTS

causes OSSSETUP to run in DEFAULTS (noninteractive) mode. If this parameter

is not present, OSSSETUP runs in interactive mode.

HELP

displays the syntax of the OSSSETUP command.

[RUN] OSSSETUP [ DEFAULTS | ? | HELP ]