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Create User-defined Resource Subclasses

Note: This section applies only to CA NetMaster FTM, CA NetMaster NA, CA SOLVE:Operations Automation, and CA SOLVE:Operations Automation for CICS.

User-defined resource subclasses enable you to categorize resources in a class defined by you. You use resource subclasses to categorize resources that do not belong to any of the supplied resource classes.

You can monitor and control the resources in the subclasses from the monitors. You can define resource templates for the resource subclasses.

You use the USRCLS resource class when you define resources for resource subclasses. The User Class field of the resource definition determines the resource subclass. A resource subclass is a resource type in the USRCLS resource class.

Initially, the User Class field has one valid value, LOGICAL (indicating a logical resource). To define resources for your own subclasses, you must first define the subclasses in the User Classes field prompt list. The name of a resource subclass can be up to eight characters long.

Note: When your status monitor displays resources of the USRCLS class, you do not see USRCLS as a resource class. The resource subclasses are displayed instead.

To add a new user subclass in the User Classes field prompt list

1. Enter ? in the User Class field on the User Class Resource General Description panel.

   The User Classes field prompt list appears.

2. Press F10 (EditList).

   The list is updated.

3. Press F4 (Add).

   The Field Prompt Entry Definition panel appears.

4. Define the new user subclass, then press F3 (File).

   The subclass is added to the list.