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CA OPS/MVS Considerations

This section discusses how to manage command and message routing using the interface between the CA OPS/MVS and CA MIC products.

The interface between CA OPS/MVS and CA MIC provides the following capabilities:

• The CA OPS/MVS subsystem can receive unsolicited messages from any system in the MICplex and record them in the OPSLOG.
• The CA OPS/MVS subsystem can issue cross-systems commands through the CA MIC subsystem by using the OPSCMD command processor or the ADDRESS OPER OPS/REXX host command environment, to any system in the MICplex. The solicited command response messages are returned to the issuer and may optionally be recorded in the OPSLOG.
• CA OPS/MVS subsystem AOF rules can recognize and interrogate fields from solicited and unsolicited CA MIC imported messages and take action based on the message data presented.

The MICplex can consist of up to 128 systems configured in a single sysplex, non-sysplexed systems, systems in multiple sysplexes, or z/VM systems where CA MIC is running as a service machine. Any CA OPS/MVS subsystem can interrogate messages from up to 128 systems.

Note: CA L-Serv is required for more than 32 systems.