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Establishing Cooperative Processing with Mainframe Host Automation

CA Automation Point can act as a server to mainframe automation products such as CA OPS/MVS. To establish cooperative processing, you need to set up a few rules in each product.

When CA Automation Point wants to request a service from a mainframe automation product, it sends a command and receives one or more messages as an acknowledgment. When a mainframe automation product wants to request a service from CA Automation Point, it sends a message and receives one or more commands as an acknowledgment. The mainframe automation product needs to know which consoles CA Automation Point controls so that it can send a service request message to the correct console.

CA provides the AXCCOMM application, which sets up and dismantles the logical host-workstation connections. It also handles error conditions that may arise when other applications "sign in" to receive a certain type of data from the host and "sign out" when they no longer need to receive the data. The application works with the AXC HERE and AXC GONE commands in the default CA Automation Point state and pause scripts. For more information, see the AXCCOMM.txt file.