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Lesson 5: How to Enable and Disable Rules and Rule Sets

Verify that you reviewed Lesson 4 about how to organize rules into rule sets. This lesson discusses how to enable or disable rules using the OPSVIEW Primary Options Menu 4.5.1 panels.

Enabled rules respond to system events. Disabled rules do not respond to system events, even if their corresponding events occur.

The following four line commands control whether a rule is enabled:

A

Sets auto-enable. When auto-enable is set for a rule, the rule is enabled every time CA OPS/MVS starts running, and again whenever an Enable command is issued for the rule set in which the rule is stored.

D

Disables the rule.

E

Enables the rule.

Z

Clears auto-enable

Important! Line commands A and Z affect every rule in the rule set, as if you had entered it on every line of the Rule List panel. Because automation strategy often includes selectively enabling rules, changing the status of all the rules in a rule data set may have unintended consequences. There is no easy way to restore the distinction between auto-enabled rules and others once all the rules of a set have been changed.

Line commands A and D sometimes interact with each other to determine whether to enable a given rule. Their exact function depends on whether they are issued in the Rule List panel or on the Rule Set List panel.

The following table describes how the commands operate on the Rule List and Rule Set List panels, and the effect they have on rules: