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System Automation for z/OS:

Beginner's Hands-on Lab

Ulrike Muench (Umuench@de.ibm.com)

IBM

Copyright and Trademarks

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© Copyright IBM Corporation 2015

The following names are trademarks of the

IBM Corp. in USA and/or other countries

and may be used throughout this

presentation:

CICS, DB2, IBM, IMS, ITM, NetView, OMEGAMON, RMF, RACF,

S/390, Tivoli, VTAM, WebSphere, z/OS, zSeries, System z,

Linux on System z

Other company, product and service

names may be trademarks or service

marks of others.

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Automation – what is it?

Start and Stop of Applications in correct order

TCPIP IMS

VTAM

JES

RMFDB2

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Automation – what is it?

Start and Stop of Applications in correct order

TCPIP IMS

VTAM

JES

RMFDB2

3

2

1

‘IPL’

As soon as VTAM is up

TCPIP and IMS can start

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Automation – what is it?

Start and Stop of Applications in correct order

TCPIP IMS

VTAM

JES

RMFDB2

1

2

3

RMF and DB2 can stop

even if TCPIP or IMS are

still up

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Automation – what is it?

Automation needs knowledge of: e.g. RMF

S RMF

P RMF

ERB100I

ERB102I

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Work Task – add an Application ‘ABANKAPL’

into System Automation

• Start Command

• Stop Command

• Messages

• ACTIVE

• UP

• TERMINATING

• TERMINATED

• Dependency to other Application

• On which system runs Application

ABANKAPL

TCPIP

Make use of

Classes

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Automation Environment

Automation policy is defined in

ISPF application on TSO

Target for Automation

build

Automation

Control File

Automation operation is

performed in NetView environment

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Creating and Editing Automation Policies

Automation

Policy Data Base

Automation

Control Filefor runtime

environment

Build Process

Automation

Policy Data

BaseImport

Flat file

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Start – All Programs – IBM Personal Communications –

Start or Configure Sessions – SHARE LPAR

User ID: SHARA01 – SHARA09

Password: firstpw

TSO

• Change the Automation Policy Database

and

• build the Automation Control File

NetView: ING01 - ING09

• Activate the Control file

• Test the policy definitions

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Wiki Homepage Forum

System Automation for z/OS

Wiki SA z/OS Homepage SA z/OSForum SA z/OS on

developerWorks

Service Management Suite for z/OS

Wiki SMSz Announcement SMSzForum SMSz on developerWorks

IBM Knowledge Center Community

Product documentation Service Management Community

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