Planning for Looping Address Space Suppression

Prerequisites

In order to use the Looping Address Space Suppression automation you need:
  • IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS installed and running
  • A Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server (TEMS) that is receiving data from the IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS instance and which is running a SOAP server
  • If you wish to use HTTPS communication between SA z/OS and the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server, you need to plan for it to be enabled.

Data Gathering

Ask your application programmers and batch schedulers if they have any batch jobs or other programs that run for a long time in CPU intensive loops. If they can identify them now, you can enter them into your automation policy at the definition stage as known false positives which should avoid accidents later on.

Even though you should start running with automation set to LOG only, it is better to obtain a list of predicted false positives from your application experts than to simply hope that they all appear during your test phase.