Important Announcement regarding Broadcom SCRT Report Management

[Joseph Reilly]

Hello SCRT Report Management Users,

Starting October 2024, the Broadcom SCRT Report Management submission process will require a minimum version of the Broadcom SCRT Product Catalog XML file. This file uniquely identifies the Broadcom products when you use the IBM Sub-Capacity Reporting Tool (SCRT) to generate a Broadcom ISV SCRT report.

The required minimum catalog level is version 14. If you submit a report that was generated with an earlier version, you will receive a warning.

Starting as early as November 2024, the warning will be changed to an error and the reports will be rejected unless they are generated with the minimum catalog level of 14.

The catalog file is shipped as part of the Common Components and Services for z/OS. You can find this file in the CAS9SCRT member of the CAW0OPTV data set. You can obtain the latest version of this member by applying solution LU13705.

If you cannot apply the required maintenance, you can get the latest version of the CAS9SCRT file here.

Let us know if you have questions,

The CCS Team 

[Joseph Reilly]

The version of the Broadcom SCRT Product Catalog will be displayed in the B5 section of the Broadcom SCRT Report. 

If you don't see a line stating the version then you are on a very early version and will need to upgrade. 

E.g. This screenshot shows the report was generated with a Broadcom Product Catalog version of 14 

[Joseph Reilly]

A reminder that you can't change the version in the report after generating it. The right version must be used when generating the file.

If you change the report after generation then the report will fail validation. 

[Ray Chabot]

Josh, is there a CAS9SCRT member download available on the Broadcom site?  My company's rules don't allow access to Box.

I assume that this is just a replacement of the ...CAW0XML(CAS9SCRT) member.  Applying LU13705 and 5 pre-reqs with subsequent testing has to wait.

[Joseph Reilly]

Hi Ray,

I understand. We don't have it available outside of Box or SMP/E at this time but if you open a support issue then the support person can email it to you. Or you can email me directly at [e-mail] and I'll send it to you as an attachment.

Hope that helps,

Joe 

[Joseph Reilly]

I just found that I can upload it to this thread so there is another option. 

Attachment(s)

CAS9SCRT.xml   238 KB 1 version

[Leroy Brown]

Hello.

I have uploaded the CAS9SCRT file to our Mainframe (zOS 2.5) but I am having troubling getting it into the CAW0OPTV location without it being truncated. I have tried OCOPY and OGET without success. It there a job in the CASP.COMMSERV dataset that can be modified to copy the CAS9SCRT into CAW0OPTV without it being truncated?

[Hennie Hermans]

Hi Leroy, 

Please check the DCB of your CAW0OPTV dataset... 
Possibly this dsn is an FB-80 PDS..

This PDS should be allocated to VB-256-32760...  

Best regards

Hennie Hermans

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Senior Principal Support Engineer
Broadcom, Mainframe Software
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[Leroy Brown]

This is the current CAW0OPTV DS Information, and the 2nd SS is the DS Information from the new CAS9SCRT file provided by Broadcom that I downloaded, and then uploaded to our Mainframe. They're both VB.

[Hennie Hermans]

Good morning Leroy,

If you check your CAS9SCRT file at your PC, how does it show then?
Is it like this formatted:

I used notepad++ and show all characters...
If you then upload it as text file with ebcdic - ascii translation to your CAW0OPTV dataset, all should be fine.
Or did you download it directly to your z/OS environment?

Regards
Hennie Hermans

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Senior Principal Support Engineer
Broadcom, Mainframe Software
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[Leroy Brown]

I downloaded it to my PC. I see the same when opening the file in notepad++. I will try and upload it again to the system using =6 and transfer and double check my setting.