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IBM Automated Restart Management

IBM's Automated Restart Management (ARM) service can restart failed tasks without operator intervention to provide improved program availability. This can reduce the impact when unexpected errors occur. CA Workload Automation SE now provides interfaces to ARM for the CA Workload Automation SE online, ICOM, and NCF tasks.

The CA Workload Automation SE online, ICOM, and NCF tasks register with ARM when their associated initialization options are set to enable the ARM interface. ARM can then restart the task in the event that the task, and in some cases, the system, fails. ARM will not restart a task if it fails as the result of a CANCEL or FORCE command unless specific options are used on the command to request the restart.

The following control the ARM interface:

CA Workload Automation SE online

Contains a new initialization file statement: STATEMGR,ARM={NO|YES}

ICOM

Contains a new EXEC parameter: ARM={NO|YES}

NCF

Contains a new EXEC parameter: ARM=ARM={NO|YES}

Note: For more information, see the Interface Reference Guide, the Systems Programming Guide, and the Command Reference Guide.