IBM Tivoli System Automation
IBM Tivoli System Automation for z/OS (SA z/OS) is a Policy-based automation solution to ensure the availability of applications and system resources.
| Developer(s) | IBM |
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| Stable release | v4.1
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| Written in | REXX and Assembler |
| Operating system | z/OS |
| Platform | IBM Mainframe |
| Available in | English and other languages |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | IBM: SA z/OS |
Functionality
The primary objective of this software is to keep Resources on the z/OS system in a desired (or goal) state of Available or Unavailable. Each resource can be individually controlled via commands to set the goal state by means of Requests (or Votes). This goal state is stored, so should a resource fail or the system be shut down, it can be brought back to its previous Desired state quickly and easily. A Resource is any Application or System Resource which can be monitored and controlled.
SA z/OS runs within IBM Tivoli NetView for z/OS, and uses its capabilities to interact with z/OS.
SA z/OS is IBM Parallel Sysplex compliant, and can manage resources across multiple systems within a Sysplex. With a Sysplex, SA can be controlled from a single system.
Resources have Relationships defined between them which ensures they are started and stopped in the correct order.
The resources are defined in a central Policy datasets, which enables all the definitions for an entire enterprise to be defined just once. A Build process is used to extract the relevant resources for each systems into Automation Control Files. As a minimum, a resource definition contains; jobname, start commands, stop commands, status messages, relationships.
SA z/OS is required for Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex (GDPS)