Administration Guide > Installation > New Installation > Installing the Agent for GCOS8

Installing the Agent for GCOS8

This document guides you through the new installation of a GCOS8 agent.

The following guide describes how to install an agent in an AE system in which authentication is not used. Additional installation steps are required before the agent can be started and used if you intend to use one of the available authentication methods. For more information, see Advanced Security.

Requirements

RSM8 is required if the job's output will be transferred to AE.

Supplied Files

The files of the GCOS8 agent are available in binary and ASCII format. They are stored in the directory IMAGE:AGENTS\GCOS8.


Procedure

1.

Creating the required catalogs

2.

Transferring the files to the host

Subcatalog

File

DATA

UCMSL, UCXJGC8I

EXEC

UCXJGC8, UCXJGC8M

INSTALL

READ_ME

JCL

CANCEL.SPN, UC4, UC4EX, UC4EXEC.DIR, UC4EXEC.SPN, UC4TERM.DIR, UC4TERM.SPN, UC4TM, UC4SIM


3.

Setting up the system environment

4.

Transferring the job report

 

5.

Starting the Agent

6.

Shutting down the Agent