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Lesson 7: Suppress Messages Using the Automation Analyzer

This lesson shows how you can access and use the Automation Analyzer to create message suppression rules. The Automation Analyzer helps you analyze and modify the messages displayed by your z/OS system.

The Automation Analyzer uses the record of events stored in OPSLOG to compile a statistical analysis of the message traffic in your system. This information can help you determine which messages to suppress from the system console display.

Based on the information the Automation Analyzer gathers, you can ask the Analyzer to generate the rules you need or, for more elaborate automation, start EasyRule directly from the panels of the Automation Analyzer. You complete the following tasks:

1. Prepare to use the Automation Analyzer. You allocate a test rule set for the rules you create rather than using a production rule set.
   • To use the Automation Analyzer, you must install CA OPS/MVS and OPSVIEW on your system, and you must have access to them.
   • For the analysis to be meaningful, sufficient time must have passed for CA OPS/MVS to collect a representative sample of events in the OPSLOG.
2. Gather message event statistics using the Automation Analyzer.
3. Suppress messages.
4. Delete messages. Using the Automation Analyzer, you can create a rule that not only suppresses a message, but also deletes the message from the SYSLOG.

   Enter D in the Sel column next to the corresponding message ID to delete a message.

   Note: OPSLOG still records occurrences of a message that has been deleted

5. Access EasyRule from the Automation Analyzer.

   This option helps only if you want to use EasyRule for something other than message suppression since the Automation Analyzer lets you generate message suppression rules directly.

   1. Access the Automation Analyzer Results panel.
   2. Enter either E or R in the Sel column.

   You are moved directly from the Automation Analyzer Results Panel into the EasyRule environment.