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ARFSET Structure

Each production job that is to be monitored by ARF must specify the name of the set of ARF definitions that will supply the criteria that ARF uses to recognize and respond to exception conditions.

An ARFSET is a named collection of ARF definitions that can be referred to on the job definition panel, on a scheduled override statement in production JCL, or on a DEMAND command. If no ARFSET reference is provided when a job enters the request queue, the job has no ARF monitoring. The ARFSET specification on the job definition panel supplies the ARFSET reference unless it is overridden with the #ARF scheduled override statement in the JCL. Both of these indications can be overridden on the DEMAND command by specifying the ARFSET keyword.

ARFSETs are created and maintained using the AR.3 panel. An ARFSET contains from 1 to 20 distinct definitions. When an ARFSET is created the client must supply a UID (like the UID specified on the job definition panel) along with a RESPONSE ID. The RESPONSE ID will be used to logon to an internal terminal where the responses will be executed when the exception is detected.

The naming conventions that are in effect for CA WA CA 7 Edition job definition also apply to ARFSETs.