IMS RECON Monitor Resource

The IMS RECON monitor resource has to be defined in the MTR policy object with the following characteristics:

Field Name Field Value
Monitored Object RECON
Monitored Jobname jobname of the IMS control region
Monitor command INGRMIRE
Monitoring Interval hh:mm
The monitor command is executed after each monitoring interval. It issues the following command and analyzes the status of the listed RECON data sets in the response to this command:
RMLIST DBRC=’RECON STATUS’
Depending on the monitor results, INGRMIRE ends with the following return codes, which are mapped to the related health status for the monitor resource:
Return Code Health status Description
1 BROKEN Monitor encountered a severe error
2 FAILED RMLIST DBRC=’RECON STATUS’ failed
3 NORMAL No problem found by RECON monitoring
4 WARNING No COPY2 found for RECON
5 MINOR No SPARE found for RECON
6 CRITICAL Neither COPY2 nor SPARE, and possibly no COPY1 found for RECON