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SSM Enhancements

SSM Version 2 is an enhanced version of the original SSM facility that provides a framework for cross-system resource management. With this framework, customers can extend their SSM applications in environments where there are resources with cross-system prerequisite relationships and resources that may run on alternative backup systems to the primary system. Specifically, SSM Version 2 includes enhancements for naming cross-system prerequisites and handling cross-system events. These enhancements allow for gathering, communicating, and maintaining information on cross-system resource relationships, and initiating actions based on this information.

SSM has also been enhanced to provide more robust prerequisite capabilities in single system and sysplex environments, exploitation of a new SQL capability to support variable length character data, new global variable syntax that simplifies defining automation actions across both sysplex and non-sysplex systems, and an audit trail for SSM table updates.

Note: The SSMVERSION parameter controls what version of SSM is started. In CA OPS/MVS Release 11.6, the SSMVERSION parameter defaults to a value of 2, and may not be set to any other value. If you are migrating to Release 11.6 from a prior release of CA OPS/MVS that was running with parameter SSMVERSION set (or defaulting) to a value of 1, you must run the OPS/REXX program OPSSM2CV to convert your SSM resource and action tables for use by SSM Version 2.