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Tasks You Can Perform With the AOF Edit Option

OPSVIEW option 2.1 enables you to create, edit, and test AOF rules before putting them into production. The commands that you use with option 2.1, such as A (Set Auto-Enable) and Z (Reset Auto-Enable), can greatly affect your rules and their execution. Therefore, when you are in test mode within option 2.1, you should not work with production rule sets at all. To control rules within the production CA OPS/MVS environment, refer to OPSVIEW option 4.5.

There are several tasks you can perform with the OPSVIEW AOF edit option. The following is a list of the panels that make up the AOF edit option and the tasks you perform with each:

• Specification Display panel

  The first panel you see when you access the OPSVIEW AOF edit option. This panel is the pathway into the other AOF edit option panels. Use the panel to specify the rule set that you want to view or the rule that you want to create, edit, or test. For instructions, see Accessing Option 2.1 in this chapter.

  If you want to use a customized test environment, you also use this panel to specify a test suite. For details, see How to Use Test Data for AOF Rules in this chapter.

• Rule Set List panel

  Lists rule set statistics. For details, see How to Display a List of Rule Sets in this chapter.

• Rule List panel

  Lists all of the rules belonging to a particular rule set and provides statistics about each. For details, see How to Display a List of Rule Sets in this chapter.

• Rule Edit panel

  Create or modify a rule. For details, see How to Edit or Modify a Rule in this chapter.

• Rule Test panels

  Test enabled rules. Always test your rules before making them available to the production system. To learn how to enable a rule, see the table.