If your installation is managing target systems from host systems, you need to consider how these remote operations tasks can affect your operations planning.

The Processor Operations component of the System Automation for z/OS® product uses NetView® to allow a host z/OS system to automate operations at target systems. Using System Automation for z/OS, you can automate console functions remotely, like IPLing or power-on restarting a processor. You can initialize or monitor target systems and let NetView operators manage several target systems simultaneously from a host system.

In multisystem environments where remote operations is a goal, System Automation for z/OS and NetView provide a good way to manage operations. See IBM® Tivoli® System Automation for z/OS User's Guide for more information about the planning tasks for managing remote operations of systems using System Automation for z/OS and NetView.