Group Entry Type

A group is the largest subdivision of an SA z/OS enterprise. It is a set of systems or subgroups, or both, that you want to associate with one another for purposes of automation and monitoring or that you want to use with the SA z/OS processor operations functions.

An SA z/OS enterprise may have many groups, each consisting of one or more systems and subgroups. You define a group by assigning a name to it and by selecting the member systems and subgroups.

The status of a group depends on the status of the systems or applications that it is comprised of. You specify the number of systems or applications of a group that must be in an unsatisfactory state to cause SA z/OS to change the color of a group in the graphic display.