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Status Not under consideration
Categories Software Analyzer
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 2, 2024

Program Analyzer should install custom rules in writeable USS folder and not in usr/lpp/IBM/akg/cr

Currently, the Program Analyzer is installed in /usr/lpp/IBM/akg. This location is read-only, so we cannot save our own rules in /usr/lpp/IBM/akg/cr.


The usr/lpp/IBM/akg/cr folder should be moved to a writable location (perhaps /var/...).


As a workaround, we copied the entire /usr/lpp/IBM/akg folder to a writable location.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    Apr 24, 2024
    Thank you for submitting an idea with IDz, we appreciate your input and suggestions to improve our client experiences. Many of our added enhancements come directly from suggestions from our users like yourself. We?ve spent some time evaluating this idea and have concluded that it is something that can be achieved with no change from the product. Perhaps the following information will help with your request.

    Refer to the following documentation here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.1.0?topic=planning-managing-union-file-system-ufs

    The main limitations are
    * UFS requires z/OS 2.5 or higher
    * UFS is local to a system, so in a sysplex with shared filesystems, things must be duplicated
    * updating the (supposedly read-only) product directory outside of UFS results in undefined behavior

    work to be done:
    * activate Union File System (UFS) in PARMLIB(BPXPRMxx)
    FILESYSTYPE TYPE(UFS) ENTRYPOINT(BPXUNINT)

    * create this directory structure
    mkdir /var/akg
    mkdir /var/akg/local
    mkdir /var/akg/local/cr
    mkdir /var/akg/local/cr/features -> will hold site-specific data
    mkdir /var/akg/local/cr/plugins -> will hold site-specific data
    mkdir /var/akg/ufs -> UFS mountpoint, data written here will end up in /var/akg/local
    mkdir /var/akg/work

    * mount writable local dir over read-only product dir on UFS mountpoint
    mount -t ufs -o upperdir=/var/akg/local,lowerdir=/usr/lpp/IBM/akg,workdir=/var/akg/work -f akg.ufs /var/akg/ufs

    * from now on access CR through the UFS mountpoint for runtime purposes, both for read (AKGCR JCL PROC) or write (add site-specific data)
    //AKGCR PROC PATH='/var/akg/ufs'

    Notes:
    * There is no real need to use sample JCL AKGCRADD, just place your site-specific files in /var/akg/ufs/cr/{plugins|features}
    * before applying a PTF, unmount /var/akg/ufs, apply PTF (with SMPE using the /usr/lpp/IBM/akg path) and then remount ufs to avoid undefined behavior