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How SSMHOOK Controls Quick Work Cycles

Various products are started at IPL time that simply start, perform some work, and then quickly end. These jobs are classified as hook jobs within SSM and need to be treated differently than those SSM resources that start, initialize, and remain active until they are requested to shutdown. The SSMHOOK request rule can be used to manage these hook jobs within SSM.

The SSM action tables created from the Snapshot facility in release r11.6 or higher of CA OPS/MVS will insert the following default actions for a HOOKSTC resource:

• UP_DOWN
• DOWN_UP
• HOOKED_UP

These actions can be repeated and modified accordingly, to manage any hook job.

Refer to the comments within the SSMHOOK request rule for further details and complete implementation guidelines for handling hook jobs within SSM.