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CAVARSRV Operational Overview

Start the CAVARSRV address space with an operator command or by using the CAIMST20 Logical Parmlib member. The CAMASTER address space can automatically start the CAVARSRV address space at IPL time. Once started, it is intended to remain active during the IPL. However, it can be shut down or recycled using operator commands.

You do not need to shut down the CAVARSRV address space before a scheduled IPL. The CAVARSRV address space does not prevent any other system component address space from shutting down.

The CAVARSRV address space defines a new dynamic exit “CA_VARDATA_CHG” for use by CA Technologies products.

The security system user ID assigned to CAVARSRV permits READ access to all data sets defined in the logical parmlib concatenation that is defined for 'SYS1.PARMLIB'.

The CAVARSRV address space executes in the SYSTEM service class. WLM policy customization is not required to run the CAVARSRV address space.

After the CAVARSRV address space is active, its services are available to CA Technologies products. When the CA Technologies products create sysplex scope variables in the CAVARSRV address space, those variables remain until the CA Technologies product deletes them or until no remaining CAVARSRV address space members remain active in the sysplex.