General Information

This section contains general information for installing Con-form. It covers the following topics:

The Con-form Operating Environment

Con-form Version 3.4.2 can be used with any of the following operating systems:

  • z/OS

  • z/VSE

  • VM/CMS

  • BS2000/OSD

Con-form Version 3.4.2 can be used with any of the following teleprocessing monitors:

  • Com-plete

  • CICS

  • TSO

  • SHADOW

  • IMS/DC

  • TIAM and UTM (BS2000)

This documentation describes the installation of Con-form Version 3.4.2 for the above-mentioned operating systems.

31-Bit Addressing

31-bit addressing mode is enabled.

Installation Prerequisites

Before installing Con-form, ensure that the following software has been installed:

  • Natural Version 4.2 or above, and

  • Adabas (version as required for your current Natural installation).

Installation Jobs

The installation of Software AG products is performed by installation jobs. These jobs are either created "manually" or generated by System Maintenance Aid (SMA).

For each step of the installation procedure, the job number of a job performing the respective task is indicated. This job number refers to an installation job generated by SMA.

If you are not using SMA, an example installation job of the same number is provided in the job library on the Con-form installation tape; you must adapt this example job to your requirements. Note that the job numbers on the tape may be preceded by a product code (for example, CMFI061).

Using System Maintenance Aid

If you plan to use SMA for the installation process, you must set the parameter CMF-FIRST-INSTALL to either Y if Con-form is not installed, or N if you are upgrading from a previous Con-form version.

For information on using SMA for the installation process, refer to the System Maintenance Aid documentation.

Note:
If you are installing Con-form on the operating system VM/CMS, SMA is not used as an installation tool.

Dataset Names

All references in this documentation are made to dataset names. The notation nnn in dataset names represents the version number of the product.