How to disable MSF in CA OPS/MVS

Products

• OPS/MVS Event Management & Automation

Issue/Introduction

We just brought up our Development LPAR under OPS/MVS R13.5 for the first time
 
We were getting the message:
XXXY 18130 04:14:10.56 00000284 OPS3440O MSF SYSTEM XXXX HAS NOT RESPONDED TO A PING
(same with system XXXX)

We inactivated MSF under OPSVIEW Option 4.2 and now the messages have stopped. We don't use MSF at all. So, can we just comment out the start in the REXX OPSTART2?

Environment

CA OPS/MVS - All releases
Multi-System Facility (MSF)
z/OS

Resolution

Yes, you can comment out the statement in the OPSTART2 REXX if you do not use the Multi-System Facility (MSF). But, we also recommend setting the MSF initialization parm in your OPSSPA00 member in your hlq.CCLXCNTL dataset to NO.
 

1. Set T = OPSPRM_Set("INITMSF","NO") 
2. Comment out the initialization statement in your OPSTART2 REXX program - ex:  /* call MSFINIT */
3. Recycle OPS/MVS

Additional Information

See INITMSF Parameter