Configuring SA z/OS

The configuration of SA z/OS is supported by the Configuration Assistant. By using the Configuration Assistant, all NetView-related configuration aspects for SA z/OS are handled automatically for you.

Instead of manually adapting configuration jobs, start procedures, and initialization files to your environment, this assistant generates these files for you. The settings that are implemented are taken from the user-customized INGDOPT Configuration Options file.

The generated files are created as members within a dynamically allocated configuration data set (CONFLIB). In this data set, they are populated with the values that you define in the INGDOPT Configuration Options file.

The CONFLIB data set contains these items:

  • A tailored readme file $INGREAD containing detailed instructions of which configuration steps must be completed and how to achieve it
  • Jobs to allocate all data sets and USS paths that are required by SA z/OS during runtime
  • Procedures to start the components of SA z/OS to be copied to your target SYS1.PROCLIB
  • Runtime configuration members for both Automation Manager and Automation Agent
  • Parameter files that are ready to be copied to your target SYS1.PARMLIB
  • VTAM® definitions that are files ready to be copied to your target VTAMLST
  • Jobs to delete data set files and USS paths in case you have to reconfigure or delete SA z/OS again
  • A job to verify the success of the installation and configuration process

All members within the CONFLIB data set can be inspected, if required. If you applied changes to the generated members, be aware that the CONFLIB data set is newly allocated when running the configuration assistant another time.

Note: The security administrator must give the system programmer and the automation administrator ALTER access to the HLQ for the locally allocated and active automation policy data sets. The security administrator must also authorize the user ID used by the SA z/OS started tasks for accessing the data sets as follows:
  • READ for SMP/E and active automation policy
  • UPDATE for the locally allocated data sets