AUTOMATION OPTIONS Policy Item

The System Automation Options panel, as shown in Figure 1, is displayed if you select the AUTOMATION OPTIONS policy item on the Policy Selection panel for the System Defaults entry type.

The following parameters can be specified for system-wide defaults. If the corresponding entry is not specified for individual resources, this value will prevail.

System specific definitions:

Exceptional Messages Limit

Specifies the maximum number of exceptional messages (those with a severity of UNUSUAL, IMPORTANT, or CRITICAL) that are captured for the entire system while SA z/OS is running.

These messages are displayed in the SA z/OS command INGMSGS, in the SA z/OS Status Display Facility and in the SA z/OS Graphic Interface.

Note: If nothing is specified, the default is 300. For Status Display Facility, consider the calculation of MAXTREEDSPSZ, which defines the maximum size of the data space for holding status component information. For more information, see SA z/OS Programmer's Reference.

IPL Complete Time Limit

Specifies the maximum time before the IPL can be considered as completed. If all required resources have reached an AVAILABLE status within this time frame, a message will be issued to indicate that the IPL completed successfully. If this is not the case, a message indicating that the IPL did not complete successfully is issued.

If 00:00:00 is specified, all resources must have already reached an AVAILABLE status before the initialization of SA z/OS has started to get the successful message.

If nothing is specified, there are no resource status checks.

IPL Complete Status

Defines a list of observed statuses the resources may have to consider the IPL as completed. Valid values are AVAILABLE, STANDBY, and SOFTDOWN. You can specify one or more values. Instead of specifying a list of observed statuses, you can also specify the compound status SATISFACTORY.

If nothing is specified, the default is AVAILABLE.

Resource specific definitions (APLs, MTRs) if automation is suspended:

Capture Messages

Specifies whether or not to capture messages. The default is YES. Specify NO, if no message capturing should be done when the automation flag is OFF or the resource has been suspended by the INGSUSPD command.

Check Thresholds

Specifies whether or not to check thresholds. The default is YES. Specify NO, if no threshold checking should be done when the automation flag is OFF or the resource has been suspended by the INGSUSPD command.

Manage WLM resources

Specifies whether or not to manage WLM resources. The default is YES. Specify NO, if WLM resources should not be managed when the automation flag is OFF or the resource has been suspended by the INGSUSPD command.

Resource specific definitions (APLs, MTRs, System APGs):

Captured Messages Limit

Specifies the maximum number of messages that will be captured for each resource while SA z/OS is running. These messages will show up in the DISPSYS, DISPINFO, or DISPMTR command output, or the SA z/OS Graphic Interface.

If nothing is specified, the default is 0.

Desired Available

Specifies the default desired status of the resource. The desired state of each resource is either AVAILABLE or UNAVAILABLE, which is the goal that automation tries to achieve. You can specify the following values:

ALWAYS

The desired state of the resource is set to AVAILABLE, unless it is dependent on a resource that has a Desired Available setting of ONDEMAND. In this case, the dependent resource behaves as if it had a Desired Available setting of ONDEMAND itself.

ONDEMAND

If there is a demand for the resource to be available, its desired status is set to AVAILABLE, otherwise its desired status is set to UNAVAILABLE.

Demand arises either from propagated MakeAvailable votes or implicitly through membership of a non-passive basic application group (APG) that has a desired status of AVAILABLE. Demand does not arise from dependent resources with a Desired Available setting of ALWAYS.

A MakeAvailable vote that is propagated to the resource overrides any demand considerations.

An active ONDEMAND member of a MOVE or SERVER group is always sent a vote that sets its desired status, thus overriding any demand considerations.

ASIS

The desired status is always set to the observed status. The resource remains in the status that it currently has and no action is taken by SA z/OS at any time, as long as there is no request placed for or propagated to the resource.

If nothing is specified, the default is ALWAYS.

Inform List

This field allows you to specify:

• Where the application is registered to
• Where all status changes are propagated to
• Whether SMF records are written

Valid values are SDF, EIF, E2E, IOM, ITM, SMF, TTT and USR. You can specify more than one value, separated with blank or comma.

If nothing is specified, no status changes are propagated.

If E2E is specified, the resources will be shown on the e2e domain view. This applies only to resources that are directly attached to a system or sysplex. For others, the specification will be ignored.

Resource specific definition (System Move/Server APGs):

Prepare Move

Specifies whether the downtime during a move or a switch of a resource should be kept as short as possible. The prepare move function works only for application groups with behavior set to ACTIVE.

For an application group of nature MOVE, this means that the currently running group member will not be stopped until the replacement member is ready to be started, for example, all parents are available. For an application group of nature SERVER, this means that a member will not be stopped until the newly started replacement is available.

To have the highest possible availability, set this value to YES.

Note: This field is relevant only to application groups with nature MOVE or SERVER. The default value is YES.

Resource specific definition (System Move APGs):

Move Mode

Specifies whether the new member is started at the same time the old member is being stopped (PARALLEL) or whether the old member should be stopped completely before the new member is started (SERIAL).