HP XP7 Business Continuity Manager Installation Guide (TK954-96002)

Contents
1 Overview of HP XP7 for Business Continuity Manager ....................................7
Licenses provided for Business Continuity Manager.......................................................................7
Prerequisite conditions...............................................................................................................8
Operating system prerequisites..............................................................................................8
Program prerequisites...........................................................................................................9
Supported storage systems..................................................................................................10
Prerequisites for using a z/Linux volume on IBM system z........................................................11
2 Installing Business Continuity Manager........................................................13
Overview of installation...........................................................................................................13
Preparing for installation..........................................................................................................13
Types of distribution media..................................................................................................13
Provided datasets...............................................................................................................13
Planning DASD storage attributes.........................................................................................15
About distribution libraries (DLIB).....................................................................................15
About target libraries.....................................................................................................15
Designing storage..............................................................................................................16
Required device capacity for Business Continuity Manager log data....................................16
Determining required memory.........................................................................................18
Preparations for installing Business Continuity Manager from a tape.........................................19
Preparations for installing Business Continuity Manager from a CD-ROM...................................19
Installing Business Continuity Manager......................................................................................20
Installing Business Continuity Manager with SMP/E................................................................20
Simple installation (installation without SMP/E)......................................................................21
Setting up the environment.......................................................................................................22
Settings for using CLI commands in TSO/E environments.........................................................23
Settings for using ISPF panels with Business Continuity Manager..............................................24
Concatenating the libraries needed to execute the YKSTART command.................................24
Starting YKSTART dynamically.........................................................................................24
Settings in the ISPF panel....................................................................................................25
Setting the position of the command line..........................................................................25
Setting the number of PF keys that are displayed...............................................................25
Settings for using the YKWATCH command and the copy group definition generation function for
PPRC copy pairs................................................................................................................25
Settings for using environment configuration commands..........................................................26
Setting the security.............................................................................................................26
Setting security for the environment configuration commands...............................................26
Setting security for CLI commands, YKAGENTD, and YKBTSCAN........................................26
Configuring dataset security...........................................................................................29
Registering a user SVC.......................................................................................................29
Using the IEASVCxx parmlib member to register................................................................29
Using the YKALCSVC command to register.......................................................................30
Setting Business Continuity Manager environment variables.....................................................31
Specifying the host ID....................................................................................................32
Enabling and disabling the system logger service..............................................................33
Specifying whether to output CLI command-execution logs..................................................33
YKSETENV command format..........................................................................................35
YKDSPENV command format..........................................................................................37
Registering a license..........................................................................................................37
Using the license key file................................................................................................38
Directly entering a key code...........................................................................................39
Working with license keys..............................................................................................39
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