Implementing MVS automatic restart management
You can exploit MVS automatic restart management to implement a sysplex-wide integrated automatic restart mechanism.
To use the MVS automatic restart manager facility, follow these
steps:
- Implement automatic restart management on the MVS images on which the CICS® workload is to run.
- Ensure that CICS startup JCL used to restart CICS regions is suitable for MVS automatic restart management.
- Specify appropriate CICS START options.
- Specify appropriate MVS workload policies.
Implementing MVS automatic restart management for CICS generally
involves the following steps:
- Ensure that the MVS images available for automatic restarts have access to the databases, logs, and program libraries required for the workload.
- Identify those CICS regions for which you want to use automatic restart management.
- Define restart processes for the candidate CICS regions.
- Define ARM policies for the candidate CICS regions. Allow the RESTART_ORDER LEVEL to default to 2. CICS regions are generally level 2 in the ARM restart order, after DB2® and DBCTL.
For information about MVS automatic restart management, see Automatic restart management and z/OS MVS Setting Up a Sysplex.