On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 17:02:06 EDT, A. Harry Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 13:36:34 -0500 Tom Duerbusch said: >>The caption on the picture shows a new "health checker" for z/OS. >>I thought VSE had that for a year or two now <G>. > >z/OS has had it for many years, I'm going to say 4 or 5, but that is a >guess. It has gotten more sophisticated each year, doing more and more >things. > From the Feb 2003, Bit Bucket X'19' at SHARE 100 A new tool (OS/390 R10 and up) that checks current, active z/OS and Syspl ex settings and definitions for an image Compares findings to “best practices” or values you have chosen Best practices compiled from IBM books, web sites, etc. Accommodates customer/system unique situations Provides distribution mechanism for updates or new checks Objective is to identify potential problems before they impact availabili ty (or cause outages) IBM intends to integrate this capability into msys for Operations and Systems Automation for OS/390 msys for Operations is a subset of Systems Automation Both will support the same functions of the Health Checker msys for OPS will automate execution and provide enhanced /ahw
