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Why Integrate

Through integration with other products, CA OPS/MVS provides you with a unified automation environment for your enterprise. For example, integration with CA NSM enables you to correlate events between mainframe and distributed systems, and automate your responses accordingly. On the mainframe, integration with other products enables you to automate responses to events detected by those products, (for example, performance problems detected by CA SYSVIEW).

CA OPS/MVS offers a broad set of integrated components for:

• Managing the health and availability of each aspect of your computing infrastructure
• Assessing and managing the cost of these components in the enterprise
• Managing the service to end users, ultimately sharing the costs of IT across the entities that use them

Integration with other products provides more ways to collect data to help automation applications make informed decisions. It also provides a more comprehensive set of actions for automation applications to take. The more actions that can be taken, the better a problem can be resolved. For example, not all CICS messages are issued to the z/OS console. Some are issued to the CICS transient data queue. Also, some actions related to CICS cannot be issued as operator commands. Instead, they must be issued as commands to CICS. To address these needs, the CICS Operational Facility (COF) is offered as a separate component for integration with CA OPS/MVS. It provides the level of integration necessary to solve CICS related problems.

As another example of the need for integration, CA OPS/MVS can react to events external to the job scheduling process, thereby initiating actions that control job scheduling activities.