Downloadable PDF Files
The IBM Z System Automation 4.2 product library contains books in PDF format.
You can download all the books in the SA4.2_manuals.zip file, or download each individual book from the following table.
| Book Title | Last Updated | Description |
| Get Started Guide | 2024/04/12 | This book is intended for SA z/OS beginners. It contains the information about early planning, configuring the product, making it secure, customizing your automation environment, and the basic operational tasks that you perform on a daily basis. |
| Planning and Installation | 2024/04/12 | Describes SA z/OS new capabilities and how to plan, install, configure, and migrate SA z/OS. |
| Customizing and Programming | 2023/10/09 | Describes how to adapt the standard installation, add new applications to automation, write your own automation procedures, monitor your applications, and more. |
| Defining Automation Policy | 2022/11/28 | Describes how to define and maintain the automation policy. |
| User's Guide | 2024/02/02 | Describes SA z/OS functions and how to use SA z/OS to monitor and control systems. |
| Messages and Codes | 2023/07/03 | Describes the problem determination information of SA z/OS, including messages, return codes, reason codes, and status codes. |
| Operator's Commands | 2022/12/13 | Describes the operator commands available with SA z/OS, including their purpose, format, and specifics of how to use them. |
| Programmer's Reference | 2024/04/12 | Describes the programming interfaces of SA z/OS, Status Display Facility (SDF) definitions, and how to integrate System Automation operations in your programs. |
| End-to-End Automation | 2022/12/05 | Describes the end-to-end automation adapter for z/OS and how it enables end-to-end automation and how it connects to Service Management Unite Automation. |
| Product Automation Programmer's Reference and Operator's Guide | 2022/09/15 | Describes how to customize and operate CICS, Db2, and IMS automation. |
| Workload Scheduler Programmer's Reference and Operator's Guide | 2022/07/29 | Describes how to customize and operate TWS/ZWS Automation. |