CA TLMS Health Checker

The IBM Health Checker for z/OS allows you to identify potential problems in your z/OS environment by checking system or product parameters and system status against recommended settings. The IBM Health Checker for z/OS is structured as a framework that includes a health check started task and various separate “check” routines provided by IBM or other vendors. CA TLMS provides health checks for CAI.CTAPOPTN settings, definitions or realtime processing conditions that could result in a problem. When these conditions are found the CA TLMS checks provide detailed recommendations on how to correct the problem. The CA TLMS health checks also make “best practice” recommendations for using CA TLMS.

To take advantage of this feature you must have the following components configured and running on your system:

IBM Health Checker for z/OS - distributed with every supported level of z/OS
CA Health Checker Common Service - a free CA Common Services component (no address space is required for the CA Health Checker Common Service)
Common Tape System (CTS) address space - when started a health check subtask will always be started

CA TLMS provides the following health checks:

TLMS_AUX_CUSHION_CRITICAL
TLMS_AUX_CUSHION_WARNING
TLMS_OPTION_NOTLMS
TLMS_OPTION_PROTECT
TLMS_OPTION_RECOVRY
TLMS_OPTION_SECOPN
TLMS_OPTION_SECURE
TLMS_QUEUE_ACTIVE
TLMS_VMF_ALOG_SEPERATION
TLMS_VMF_UPDATE_NOT_POSSIBLE

For more information about the use of the CA TLMS health checks, including check parameters that can be configured to change default thresholds or settings used in the checks, see Appendix D.