Using SSM Global Application › How to Set Up SSMGA › Step 3: Update the SSM Global Event Facility

Step 3: Update the SSM Global Event Facility

SSMGA uses the SSM global event facility that you activated in Step 1 to maintain a copy of all local resource status information in the LST. In this step, you update the SSM global events action table that the SSMGLOBALEXITTBL parameter specifies.

The BEGIN, UPDATE, ADD, and DELETE global events in the global events action table must have actions that invoke the SSMGALCL request rule. We recommend that you use action text for each event name as follows. If the global event facility is already in use, then add the action text to the end of the existing action text, separated by a semicolon.

ADD     …   RULE("SSMGALCL &SSM!PROCESS &SSM!RESNAME")
BEGIN   …   RULE("SSMGALCL &SSM!PROCESS IPL(&SSM!IPL)")
DELETE  …   RULE("SSMGALCL &SSM!PROCESS &SSM!RESNAME")
UPDATE  …   RULE("SSMGALCL &SSM!PROCESS &SSM!RESNAME
            COLUMN(&SSM!COLUMN) USERDATA(&SSM!USERDATA)")

Note: The three periods (…) represent empty key values in the action table.

The following list describes the global events:

• ADD—Reads all the resources in the resource table, checks for the existence of optional columns, and calls the ADD status routine to insert or update the resource status record in the LST.
• BEGIN—Deletes the LST table and then reads the SSM directory table using OPSSMTBL. Each resource table is processed as an ADD table global event.
• DELETE—Updates all LST resource status records for a resource table with a delete flag and update time for global system cleanup processing. The monitored column indicators in the RDF column table for the resource table are removed.
• UPDATE—Updates all LST resource status records for a resource table by repeatedly calling the update status routine.