IMON installs and administers software configurations. The software products to be found on a typical mainframe system are many and varied – a situation not infrequently rendered even more complex by a multiplicity of versions and correction releases. IMON offers outstanding flexibility for configurations which change frequently and boosts the costefficiency of computer centers.
Thanks to SOLIS2 (software delivery and information system), the BS2000 software products to be installed have a unified structure so that they can be installed by IMON in a standard procedure.
Once installation is completed, IMON registers the installed software in a Software Configuration Inventory (SCI) containing information on the locations of the various software modules in the system. IMON administers the SCI.
IMON provides a range of related services:
for automatic installation of software for BS2000
automatic deinstallation of software that is no longer needed for BS2000
an Undo function for the last installation performed
to implement central administration of all information relating to installation in a SCI
to “park” the software you receive, i.e. to temporarily store the files under a particular user ID prior to installation
to print the delivery documentation
to request information on available corrections or on a correction delivery
to search the SCI and retrieve information for users and for program-related processing
to decouple path names and logical IDs
for parallel administration of coexistent product versions – including correction versions – in a system.
IMON is executable in interactive and batch modes.
IMON offers the following interfaces:
an SDF interface for the IMON-BAS and IMON-GPN components for entering statements and commands
a menu interface for the IMON-BAS and IMON-SIC components
a subroutine interface for IMON-BAS, IMON-GPN and IMON-SIC.
The functional scope depends partly on the privileges assigned to the user.