A crucial capability related to outboard automation is the ability to automate the IPL process.
CA Automation Point can display and automate the startup process for mainframe or distributed systems. Inboard automation applications (like CA OPS/MVS on z/OS) cannot control these startup processes because their environment is not available until the operating system has completed its startup.
CA Automation Point can establish and control software console full-screen sessions with the mainframe. This capability lets CA Automation Point initiate and automate (from the software console) the IML/IPL process. For CMOS mainframe processors, CA Automation Point Point can initiate the IML/IPL process through a distributed REXX program. This program communicates, through SNMP, requested IML/IPL functions to the CMOS processors-just as the HMC (Hardware Management Console) GUI application does.
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