Managing ZOWE with OPS/MVS SSM

Products

• OPS/MVS Event Management & Automation

Issue/Introduction

Recommendations on managing ZOWE with OPS/MVS SSM and automating relevant messages.

Cause

Shutdown and startup of ZOWE STC's need to be defined in SSM.So that ZOWE can be managed properly.

Resolution

There are just two main started tasks that are normally controlled by the user: ZWESISTC and ZWESLSTC.Everything else will be controlled by these two automatically, so make sure to shutdown main Zowe started tasks with proper Stop command, not Cancel. Cancel will leave some ports occupied and address spaces running and that needs to cleaned manually.

There is a set of sys messages mentioned in Zowe configuration file (zowe.yaml) these will be duplicated into the z/OS syslog so this can be used.

Note that "Zowe started" messages do not mean Zowe is up and running. It is better to use message ZWES1601I or ZWED0031I. if app-server component is enabled or customer running latest version 2.16 then customer can add message ZWEAM001I which will be proper marker of all APIML components are running fine.