Using SA z/OS Sample Policies

SA z/OS provides sample enterprise organizations implemented as SA z/OS policies. The sample policies that are shipped with SA z/OS are installed when the SA z/OS customization dialog is installed.

To see what sample policies there are, navigate to the Create a New Policy Database panel as described in Creating a New Policy Database. The asterisk character (*) at the start of a policy name on that panel indicates that it is a sample.

You can never modify the sample policies themselves. You can only modify copies of the samples. To create a copy of a sample policy, follow the steps in Creating a New Policy Database and select the sample that you want to copy in step 3.

For information on how to import a sample policy into an existing policy database, see Importing Sample Add-On Policies.

There are two kinds of sample policies: basic and add-on.

The basic policy is:

*EMPTY
This sample is simply an empty policy database.

The add-on policies are:

  • *BASE
  • *CICS
  • *DB2
  • *E2E
  • *GDPS
  • *HYPERSWAP
  • *IBMCOMP
  • *IMS
  • *ITM
  • *PROCOPS
  • *SAPSRV
  • *TBSM
  • *ZWS

The *BASE add-on policy simplifies the exploitation of basic system automation using SA z/OS. This allows users to startup and shutdown a basic z/OS computing environment within a sysplex.

The *BASE policy contains the main z/OS, networking and security components that are required in most client shops:
  1. z/OS Link List Look-Aside
  2. z/OS Base components
  3. z/OS Base applications
  4. Networking components
  5. Security components
  6. SA z/OS components

The computing environment consists of three systems running within a sysplex. This environment is considered to be an appropriate base for high availability solutions, delivered as add-on model policies. Depending on your needs, these models can easily be tailored to less or more than three systems, just by unlinking or removing, or adding or linking systems.

A single system needs to be defined as a sysplex with only one system.

For information on what is in the sample add-on policies, use the view (v) action on the Create a New Policy Database panel (shown in Figure 2).

Diagrams of the add-on policies are also provided as PDF files, located in Add-on policies. For more information about the installation settings, refer to the chapter "SMP/E Installation" in IBM Z® System Automation Planning and Installation.