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EasyRule

EasyRule is an ISPF-based application that lets you create AOF rules using a series of fill-in-the-blank panels.

To access EasyRule, use any of the various options of the CA OPS/MVS OPSVIEW facility.

The AOF rule REXX code is generated in the background in response to the options that you specify on the selection panels. Little, if any, AOF rule knowledge is required to use EasyRule, so it is an excellent starting place for new CA OPS/MVS users.

EasyRule lets you build suppression rules and rules that perform many sorts of tasks, including:

• Issuing WTOs and z/OS and UNIX System Services commands
• Replying to WTORs
• Updating global variables and RDF tables
• Invoking OPS/REXX programs in CA OPS/MVS TSO servers

EasyRule also provides a series of panels to help you incorporate decision-making logic in rules, such as manipulating data in a message or querying the status of a job or device. Because some automated applications require greater complexity and may need to use a CA OPS/MVS OPS/REXX function or host environment not available in EasyRule, you may be unable to create some automated applications with EasyRule.

At that point you have the following two options:

• Add your own code at selected points in the code generated by EasyRule. With this option you can continue to use EasyRule in the future to modify the EasyRule generated portions of the code.
• Directly edit the generated code or copy the code to a rule that you create outside of EasyRule.

For details on using EasyRule, see the User Guide.