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SSM Actions in Resource Table Columns

In the CA OPS/MVS r11.8 documentation we announced that support for SSM Actions in resource tables columns would be dropped in r11.9.

Elimination of System State Manager (SSM) Actions in Resource Table Columns

The ability to directly specify SSM actions in resource table columns instead of an action table has been eliminated in the next release of CA OPS/MVS. The facility can easily be replaced by defining a general or resource specific action for the same state combinations in an action table. Variable substitution of resource specific column data can further qualify generic actions such as start and stop commands. The SSM engine action processing algorithm has been modified not to search the resource column names for a resource state matching action column. Only the action table associated with a resource table will be searched for actions.

If you need assistance with making the necessary changes for this, please contact CA Technical Support.

Parameters Dropped

The following parameters were removed in this release:

• BYPASSINITEOM

  This parameter did prevent EOM rule processing for JES initiators but did not prevent the allocation of a process block. Prevention of process block depletion was the original intent of this parameter.

• INITHCS

  This parameter determined whether CA OPS/MVS has installed and enabled z/OS Health Checks for the product. Now this will automatically occur on CA OPS/MVS startup. To provide consistency with other CA products with health checks we removed this parameter-based capability to temporarily deactivate or permanently delete health checks as this is already provided by the IBM Health Checker infrastructure. Customers can do this for individual or all product checks through the HZSPRMxx PARMLIB member or by issuing modify commands to the Health Checker started task.

  Note: The default for this parameter was that z/OS Health Checks was installed and enabled.

• OCMAXTIME

  This parameter controlled the maximum time a command console could be allocated for command response collection. The value specified could cause a conflict with specified or default CMDWAIT/WAIT operands of OPSCMD or Address OPER.

Variables Dropped

The following variable was removed in this release:

• SEC.OPAURQTY