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Benefits of POI

The Programmable Operations Interface (POI) is a set of TSO command processors that give you control of the CA OPS/MVS product and access to z/OS and subsystem functions.

Command processors can do the following:

• Issue the commands required to coordinate processing for batch jobs and the online systems they support.

  For example, if you have a batch job requiring exclusive use of a CICS file, that job can include a job step that runs the TSO Terminal Monitor Program (TMP) in batch mode. This job step can use the OPSCMD command processor of the POI to issue CICS commands (through the z/OS MODIFY command) that take control of the needed file from CICS. After the job step executes, a subsequent job step can use the batch TMP again to return the file to CICS.

• Capture, in TSO CLISTs, command sequences that your system operators issue manually.

  When you use the CA OPS/MVS Enhanced Console Facility to invoke the CLISTs, these command sequences run automatically.

• Be used in custom ISPF dialogs that guide help desk personnel or end users through complex operations procedures that might otherwise require help from senior programmers or systems analysts.

  POI command processors can automate steps of these procedures that extract information from z/OS, issuing the commands needed to get the information and processing the command output in the ISPF dialog. People using these dialogs need to do nothing except respond to prompts for information that only they can supply.