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Status Not under consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories SMP/E
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 11, 2026

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LIST of PTFs APPLIED after a specific year

Hi Team,

I hope you are doing well.

I am trying to generate a list of PTFs that were applied after a specific time period(for example, after 24.040). Could you please advise what the correct SMPCNTL commands would be to extract this information?

I have attempted the following:

SET BDY(ZOS20TGT).                     /* Target zone */
LIST APPLIED
    SELECT(SYSMOD)
    DATE(ONORAFTER(2024/02/10))        /* Example date filter */
    /* or */
    SINCE(2024/02/01)

I also tried:

LIST SYSMODS PTFS

However, this returns all PTFs (approximately 100K), which is not sufficiently filtered for my needs.

Could you please suggest a more specific or efficient way to extract a report showing only the PTFs applied after the selected time period?

Thank you in advance for your support.

Regards,
Gaurav Paul

 

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
    Feb 11, 2026
    The SMP/E LIST command does not offer options to help limit the output to SYSMODs that meet specific date criteria. You can LIST all SYSMODs in a target zone and then manually examine the INSTALLDATE subentry to find the SYSMODs that meet your APPLY date criteria. Or, you can write a program to use either of the following APIs to query SYSMOD entries in a target zone. On the query request you can specify a filter to limit the response to only those SYSMODs that meet your APPLY date criteria.

    https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.2.0?topic=reference-smpe-csi-application-programming-interface
    This reference describes a low level API, implemented by program GIMAPI, which is intended to be called from programs written in C, Pl/I, Assembler, or similar. There are sample C, PL/I, and Assembler programs available to help you get started.

    https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.2.0?topic=services-query-smpe-csi
    This reference describes a high level API implemented in the z/OSMF server which is intended to be called from programs written in Java or similar. It is a REST style API, meaning your program sends an HTTP request to the z/OSMF server and the server responds with the results for the API. The z/OSMF server provides an API Explorer where you can learn about and interact with many of the z/OSMF server APIs, including "Query an SMP/E CSI data set." In the z/OSMF "Reference Center" folder, click the "z/OSMF REST APIs" icon.

    Using the Query CSI data set API, your query request would look something like this:

    POST https://<host-server-name>/zosmf/swmgmt/csi/csiquery/<csi-data-set-name>
    {
    "zones": ["<target-zone-name>"],
    "entries": ["SYSMOD"],
    "subentries": ["FMID", "INSTALLDATE"],
    "filter": "INSTALLDATE > 26001"
    }
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