Questions on End of Service Announcement for Automate Compatability Mode within OPS/MVS

Products

• OPS/MVS Event Management & Automation

Issue/Introduction

The AUTOMATE functions will be dropped as of OPS/MVS release 14.0.

Some answers to the next questions related to the discontinue of the AUTOMATE function support

1. Will Automate Rule Conversion stop to work?

2.  Will OPS/MVS Rules, which have been converted from Automate still work?

3.  Will the Usermod ++USERMOD(OPUM001), which provide a load of load modules still work?
  (e.g.   ADDRULE, BIND, CLIST, CPCMD, DELRULE, DELVAR, DOM, GETSCRN, GETVAR, GETVARL,
           MLWTO, OSCMD, PARSE, READVAR, REPLY, REXX, SESSCMD, SETVAR, SQL, STATETBL, TSOCMD,
           UNBIND, WAIT, WRITEVAR, WTL, WTO, WTOH, WTOR)

4.  Will the Automation command processor be discontinued?

Environment

Release : 14.0 and above

Component : OPS/MVS

Resolution

1.  Will the Automate Rule Conversion stop working?

        Yes, this will no longer work.

2.  Will the OPS Rules, which have been converted from Automate still work?

       Converted rules will continue to work.

3.  Will the Usermod ++USERMOD(OPUM001), which provide a load of load modules, still work.

       The USERMOD will still be supplied and command processors will continue to work.

4.  Will the Automate command processor be discontinued?

       There are no plans to remove the command processors as of this time.