How to Begin Using the Product › Lesson 8: Create Rules from an MPF Suppression List › Prepare to Convert MPF to the Product

Prepare to Convert MPF to the Product

You must review the preparation steps listed in this topic before you can begin creating rules from an MPF suppression list.

To prepare to convert MPF suppression lists to rules

• Use ISPF option 3.2 to allocate a partitioned data set with sufficient directory space for the CA OPS/MVS rules that will be created. There will be one data set member for each MPF suppression list entry that you convert. The term rule set refers to a partitioned data set containing CA OPS/MVS rules.
• Use a non-production environment for testing.

  Do not use a live rule set as the initial target for your conversion. The conversion process places the source code for rules into the target data set; it is safer to use a non-production environment for testing.

• Before you can perform the conversion, CA OPS/MVS and OPSVIEW must be installed at your data center, and you must have access to them.
• If you use the MPF conversion facility, modify parmlib to remove message suppression.