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How SOF Automates I/O Configuration Management

The SOF component of CA OPS/MVS provides an automated software solution to simplify I/O configuration management.

The following diagram uses two z/OS systems to show how all of the features of SOF fit together to create the complete automated solution to I/O configuration management provided by SOF.

Important! Run SOF on all z/OS systems that are attached to a shared I/O configuration. This provides SOF with a complete global view of the shared I/O configuration. Otherwise, the user displays will be incomplete, and I/O failures will likely occur on systems not running SOF because SOF connectivity control commands will be unable to execute the required local z/OS VARY operations on those systems.