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You can use several methods to automate your system and test your automation rules.
The following are the various automation methods and references to corresponding lessons on the following pages:
AOF Edit (OPSVIEW option 2.1) enables you to create rules using the OPS/REXX programming language.
See Lesson 1: Create a Rule With the AOF in this chapter.
With CA OPS/MVS, you can test and verify your automation rules before they get into a production environment.
See Lesson 2: Test and Verify a Rule in this chapter.
With CA OPS/MVS, you can establish another message suppression rule and establish a test command rule.
See Lesson 3: Establish More Rules in this chapter.
CA OPS/MVS gives you the ability to group rules in a meaningful way. These groups are called rule sets.
See Lesson 4: How to Organize Rules into Rule Sets in this chapter.
With CA OPS/MVS, enabling and disabling rules and rule sets is how you turn them on and off.
See Lesson 5: How to Enable and Disable Rules and Rule Sets in this chapter.
EasyRule (OPSVIEW option 2.3) is a fourth-generation facility that makes it easy to create rules that will respond to various system events, including system messages. It provides the ability to modify the display of system console messages without the need for programming.
To create very complex rules, you may need to use the AOF edit facility rather than EasyRule.
See Lesson 6: Solve a Problem Using EasyRule in this chapter.
The Automation Analyzer (OPSVIEW option 7.2) examines and displays a statistical analysis of the message activity of your system. You can use this information to choose the messages you want to suppress, and then create message suppression rules directly from the panels of the Automation Analyzer.
See Lesson 7: Suppress Messages Using the Automation Analyzer in this chapter.
Most z/OS installations have used the IBM product for message suppression, called the Message Processing Facility (MPF). CA OPS/MVS provides an MPF conversion facility (OPSVIEW option 7.3) to enable these installations to migrate without losing the time they have invested in MPF. The MPF conversion facility reads messages from the MPF message suppression list and automatically generates CA OPS/MVS rules.
The MPF conversion facility is limited to simple suppression entries. Messages regarding console colors and exit information are not automatically processed. If you use the MPF conversion facility, you must modify parmlib to remove message suppression.
See Lesson 8: How to Create Rules From an MPF Suppression List in this chapter.
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