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Start the MSF

The MSF must be active on all your z/OS systems before you can use it to issue cross-system commands. Starting the MSF requires that you perform the following steps (usually automatically rather than manually) on each of your systems.

To start the MSF

1. Start the CA OPS/MVS main product address space. This is usually done through the appropriate COMMNDnn member of the Logical Parmlib Concatenation.
2. Tell CA OPS/MVS the name to use for the local system (the one on which it is running).

   The MSF picks up this parameter and uses it during MSF initialization. Setting this name, the SYSID of the local system, is usually done with an OPSPRM OPS/REXX function executed from the OPSSPAnn member of the Logical Parmlib Concatenation during CA OPS/MVS initialization.

3. Define the systems to the MSF (using ADDRESS OPSCTL MSF).
4. Start the local MSF (using ADDRESS OPSCTL MSF).
5. Activate the MSF sessions to remote systems (using ADDRESS OPSCTL MSF).

Each initialization step is explained in detail in the sections that follow.