Your installation can use automatic restart management to provide improved availability for certain programs, and can customize automatic restart management for the sysplex in a variety of ways. Briefly, your installation can:

• Set up one or more automatic restart management policies, which can use default values for restarts or values tailored for the installation's workload.
• Enable automatic restart management restarts by issuing the SETXCF command to activate one policy. (The installation also can use SETXCF to disable automatic restart management restarts or activate a different policy.)
• Code a workload-restart installation exit to prepare a system for cross-system restarts.
• Code an element-restart installation exit to modify a restart for a particular element.

To use the functions of automatic restart management, your installation needs only to define a couple data set and start a policy. Customizing automatic restart management is optional. For more information about automatic restart management functions, see the following:

• z/OS MVS Setting Up a Sysplex for information about policies, and requirements for using automatic restart management.
• z/OS MVS System Commands for information about the SETXCF command.
• z/OS MVS Installation Exits for information about the workload-restart installation exits.