Defining auto-reply policy for WTORs

With the auto-reply policy for WTORs, you can get an automatic response from the system to WTOR messages, when there is no automation, the operator is unaware of the outstanding request, or spends a long time determining what response should be given.

Specifically, the auto-reply policy provides the following enhancements on z/OS®:

If an operator or customer-supplied automation has not provided any reply to a WTOR in a specified amount of time, and the auto-reply policy contains this WTOR, the system will use the reply from the policy to reply to the message.
The default auto-reply policy is activated during IPL, unless you explicitly request that the policy not be activated. If you don't activate the default policy, WTORs issued during NIP cannot be automated.
You can add to or alter the default auto-reply policy, or provide your own auto-reply policy.
You can use an operator command to activate or deactivate the auto-reply policy on a system.
You can use an operator command to display the auto-reply policy and the current outstanding WTORs that are being monitored by auto-reply processing.
You can use an operator command to deactivate auto-reply processing or to stop monitoring a current outstanding WTOR.
You can specify a system parameter AUTOR=xx in the IEASYSxx parmlib member or in response to message IEA101A SPECIFY SYSTEM PARAMETERS, to allow your installation to provide a set of parmlib members that contain the auto-reply policy, or to request that auto-reply processing not be activated.