Enabling ARM support

Overview

BSA supports automatic restart management (ARM).

Automatic restart management is a z/OS recovery function that can improve the availability of specific batch jobs or started tasks. When a job or task fails, automatic restart management can restart the job or task without operator intervention.

Note

At present, BSA does not support cross-system restart. The started task or job must be restarted on the same system it was running on at the time of the failure. Please take this into account when defining the ARM policy.

Enabling ARM support

To enable started tasks and/or batch jobs to participate in automatic restart management, code the following keyword in member B01LSTxx:

ARM_SUPPORT = type

where type is one of the following:

type ...

Enables automatic restart management for ...

STC

started tasks

BATCH

batch jobs

ALL

started tasks and batch jobs