IMS Automation Concepts

This section describes the principal concepts of IMS Automation in SA z/OS and gives some hints relating to its customization.

*IMS Best Practices Policy
SA z/OS supplies a sample policy, *IMS, that provides best practice definitions for running IMS Automation.
Customization Hints
Bear in mind the following when customizing the *IMS best practices policy:
IMS Operation Hint
In the *IMS best practices policy, relationships have been set up, for example, from monitor resources to the IMS application group, to make sure that the monitor resources can rely on all required IMS functions.
IMS Message Processing
SA z/OS can only automate messages that are issued via WTO. Most IMS system messages that are important are WTO'd, However, there are many IMS messages that are only logged internally.
Defining IMS Actions
To define automated actions in the SA z/OS automation policy that have to be executed by IMS, it is recommended that you specify an IMS command, prefixed with the IMS subsystem ID, and issue it with the NetView MVS command.

Parent topic: IMS Automation