If you don't use CA Chorus Software Manager (formerly known as CA Mainframe Software Manager ) to apply maintenance we now offer a new utility CAUNZIP to simplify maintenance management .
CAUNZIP is delivered as part of CA Common Services Version 14.0 with PTF RO54887 and CA Common Services Release 14.1 with PTFs RO54635 and RO58216 .
You can find the documentation for it in the latest version of the CA Common Services for z/OS Administration Guide 14.1 .
CAUNZIP runs as an online TSO command but can be run in batch. This utility extracts the contents of a Published Solutions maintenance package order from the Download Center on CA Support Online and produces a Network Temporary Store (NTS) formatted set of z/OS UNIX files . These files can be used in SMP/E RECEIVE processing.
With this utility you can now ftp files directly to z/OS from the support ftp site without having to transfer to windows first to unzip the contents of the package.
You can now order all PTFs published after a certain date in one zip file and extract the file directly on z/OS with CAUNZIP.
When receiving multiple PTFs like this remember to download the latest SMP/E HOLDDATA and receive the HOLDDATA together with the PTFs.