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AOFINITOPEN Parameter

The AOFINITOPEN parameter determines how the AOF rule data sets are opened during product initialization processing. In order to improve performance, the AOF rule data sets are opened only once during AOF initialization processing. Therefore, it is necessary to open them for the least restrictive processing mode that might be needed.

Some installations do not allow the CA OPS/MVS main address to have UPDATE authority to some rule data sets (usually the data set designated by the SECUITYRULESET parameter). In this case, you may set the AOFINITOPEN parameter to INPUT, and design your automation so that no update processing through ADDRESS AOF host commands is attempted, to any rule data set, during product initialization. AOF host commands that require UPDATE access to the rule data sets are SETAUTO, RESETAUTO, COMPILE, and DELCOMP.

Important! CA strongly recommends that this parameter be left at its default value of UPDATE. If you set the value to INPUT, but attempt to update any rules through some AOF action during initialization, abends occur and initialization fails.

Default value
UPDATE
Other possible values

INPUT

Set or modify this parameter...

At initialization

Example: AOFINITOPEN

Open the rule data sets for INPUT processing only during AOF initialization.

OPSPRM('SET','AOFINITOPEN','INPUT')