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Mainframe vendors have been moving aggressively on packaging products into z/OSMF Software Management Portable Software Instances. In March 2022, Broadcom announced the End of Life (EOL) for Chorus Software Manager (CSM) with an EOL date of June 30, 2023, and going forward, Broadcom plans to invest resources in z/OSMF for software management.
As the z/OS Enterprise transitions to the use of z/OSMF, you will benefit from gaining more z/OSMF product installation and maintenance experience in addition to migrating SMP/E environments into z/OSMF. This will allow you to manage all vendor product maintenance using a single and consistent application. After the migration process completes, you can maintain new z/OSMF software instances using the z/OSMF Software Update function.
As part of the z/OSMF Expert Change Planning program, Broadcom Support can help familiarize and assist you with z/OSMF for software management.
We will provide:
This session covers how to order a z/OSMF portable software instance from the Broadcom Support and register the Portable Software Instance in z/OSMF.
This session covers z/OSMF Software Management to install a Portable Software Instance.
This video session covers the use of the CSM2ZOSM REXX utility to migrate a CSM or SMP/E managed software as new z/OSMF software instances.
This session covers z/OSMF Software Update to install the three different types of Software Updates.
This session covers a high-level overview of Broadcom SMP/E Internet Service Retrieval and configuration.
This session covers an alternate simplified method of RECEIVING SMP/E maintenance packages.