Business Continuity Manager Installation Guide

Version: 10.1.x
Audience: anonymous
Part Number: MK-95HC104-48
Published: 2026-05-05

Overview of Hitachi Business Continuity Manager
Licenses provided by Business Continuity Manager
Prerequisite conditions
Operating system prerequisites
Program prerequisites
Supported storage systems
Prerequisites for using a volume on Linux® on IBM System z
Installing Business Continuity Manager
Overview of installation
Preparing for installation
Types of distribution media
Provided datasets
Planning DASD storage attributes
About distribution libraries (DLIB)
About target libraries
Designing storage
Required device capacity for BCM log data
Determining required memory
Installing Business Continuity Manager
Transmitting the Business Continuity Manager load module from the CD-ROM to a host machine
Installing Business Continuity Manager with SMP/E
Simple installation (installation without SMP/E)
Setting up the environment
Settings for using CLI commands in TSO/E environments
Example of dynamically concatenating the LINKLIB load library to LNKLST
Settings for using ISPF panels with Business Continuity Manage
Statically concatenating the libraries needed to execute the YKSTART command
Dynamically concatenating the libraries needed to execute the YKSTART command
Settings in the ISPF panel
Setting the position of the command line
Setting the number of PF keys that are displayed
Settings for using the YKWATCH command and the copy group definition generation function for PPRC copy pairs
Settings for using environment configuration commands
Setting the security
Setting security for the environment configuration commands
Setting basic access control functions
Setting security to use the extended access control function
Notes on setting access control functions
Procedure for setting the READ permission or the UPDATE permission for the RACF profile to the user
Setting security for starting a System REXX environment
Configuring dataset security
Registering a user SVC
Using the IEASVCxx parmlib member to register
Using the YKALCSVC command to register
Setting Business Continuity Manager environment variables
Specifying the host ID
Enabling and disabling the system logger service
Specifying whether to output CLI command-execution logs
YKSETENV command format
YKDSPENV command format
Registering a license
Using the license key file
Directly entering a key code
Notes when operating license keys
Format for license information datasets
Naming for license information datasets
Verification procedure following installation and setup
Check whether the installation and environment settings are completed
Checking the access permissions when the extended access control function is installed
Upgrading Business Continuity Manager
Overview of upgrade installation
Checking the setting values of the environment
Creating a backup
Deleting members from the cataloged procedure library
Removing the concatenation of the load library
Upgrading Business Continuity Manager
What to check after upgrading
Installing Business Continuity Manager by using the z/OSMF workflow
Overview of installation by using the z/OSMF workflow
Overview of the procedure for performing installation by using the z/OSMF workflow
Overview of the z/OSMF templates
Template for performing installation with SMP/E
Template for performing simple installation (installation without SMP/E)
Preparing for installation by using the z/OSMF workflow
Template for setting up an environment
Creating a z/OSMF workflow variable file
YKWFSMPE template variables
YKWFSMPN template variables
YKWFSUPD template variables
YKWFSUPS template variables
Performing installation by using a z/OSMF workflow
Notes on system setup when a related product is installed
Notes on user SVC registration
Notes on setting environment variables or system symbols
Notes on specifying a prefix
Notes on executing YKBTSCAN from a REXX script
User SVC versions required by Business Continuity Manager
Setting up an environment for BCM Monitor
General procedure for setting up an environment for BCM Monitor
Setting up the security for BCM Monitor
Creating configuration files for BCM Monitor
Creating BCM Monitor parameter files
Creating a cataloged procedure for startup for BCM Monitor
Creating a JCL for startup for BCM Monitor
Modifying sample JCL
Values used in the sample JCL modification examples
ALLOUPLD (creating transmission datasets)
RECVUPLD (TSO/E RECEIVE processing)
HDSYKSIN (simple installation)
SMPALLOC (allocating SMP/E datasets)
HDSYK1AL (allocating distribution and target libraries)
HDSYK2DF (defining distribution and target libraries)
HDSYK3RC (SMP/E RECEIVE processing)
HDSYK4AP (creating target libraries)
HDSYK5AC (creating distribution libraries)
Sample Scripts
HDSRFEPR (viewing access permissions for the extended access control function)
Notes on upgrading Business Continuity Manager
When upgrading Business Continuity Manager from a version earlier than 6.6.1 to 6.6.1 or later
When upgrading Business Continuity Manager from a version earlier than 6.7.1 to 6.7.1 or later
Route Config panel
Route list structure
When upgrading Business Continuity Manager from a version earlier than 7.4 to 7.4 or later
When upgrading Business Continuity Manager from a version earlier than 7.6.1 to 7.6.1 or later
When upgrading Business Continuity Manager from a version earlier than 8.1.4 to 8.1.4 or later
When upgrading Business Continuity Manager from a version earlier than 8.5.1 to version 8.5.1 or later
When upgrading Business Continuity Manager from a version earlier than 8.6.4 to version 8.6.4 or later
When upgrading Business Continuity Manager from a version earlier than 10.1 to version 10.1 or later
When upgrading Business Continuity Manager from a version earlier than 10.1.1 to version 10.1.1 or later
Notes when multiple versions of Business Continuity Manager exist
Configuration files
License information dataset
Specifying whether to output the CLI command-execution logs (SYSLOG)
Setting up the Resource Access Control Facility (RACF) when multiple versions of Business Continuity Manager exist
Registering a user SVC dynamically
Available versions of user SVCs
Registering a user SVC statically
Conventions in syntax explanations
Conventions in syntax explanations

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