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BMC recommends upgrading to the latest version of the product. To see documentation for that version, see BMC AMI Ops Infrastructure 7.1 Open link .

Overview of manual customization tasks

This topic lists the manual customization tasks that you can complete to customize your MainView environment to best suit your needs. Manual customization is time-consuming but provides the greatest flexibility.

For each manual customization task that you can perform, the following table indicates whether the task is required or optional.

Task

Required or optional?

Specifying jobcards and other operational defaults

Required

Generating JCL to run the installation verification program

Optional

Implementing Katakana terminal support

Optional

Apply passwords with the Product Authorization Utility

Required, except not applicable to MainView FOCAL POINT or MainView SRM

Creating site data sets

Required

Creating site security data set

Required, except not applicable to MainView FOCAL POINT

Adding the BMC load library to your system APF list

Optional

Adding the BMC load library to your system link list

Optional

Creating a CLIST for invoking MainView products

Required

Adding TSF authorization for products to run under ISPF

Required for the following products, but not applicable to others:

  • MainView FOCAL POINT

  • MainView AutoOPERATOR

  • MainView for CICS

  • MainView for DB2

  • MainView for DBCTL

  • MainView for IMS Offline

  • MainView for IMS Online

  • MainView for MQ

Configure RTCS

Required, except not applicable to MainView FOCAL POINT

Creating the CAS startup procedure

Required, except not applicable to MainView FOCAL POINT

Creating the MainView host server startup procedure

Optional, except not applicable to MainView FOCAL POINT

Allocating the MainView Infrastructure common registry

Required

Defining Alert Manager initialization parameters

Optional, except not applicable to MainView FOCAL POINT

Allocating Alert Manager journal logs

Optional, except not applicable to MainView FOCAL POINT

Allocating Alert Manager DIV data set

Optional, except not applicable to MainView FOCAL POINT

Creating an Alert Manager startup procedure

Optional, except not applicable to MainView FOCAL POINT

Verification of MainView Logger data sets

Required, except not applicable to MainView FOCAL POINT

Creating MainView Logger BBPARM member LOGGERxx

Required, except not applicable to MainView FOCAL POINT

Creating the started task for the DBC address space

Required, except not applicable to MainView FOCAL POINT

Setting up a product-specific logspace

Optional, except not applicable to MainView FOCAL POINT or MainView Transaction Analyzer

Allocating historical data set BBILIB member @@YZZ051

Optional for the following products, but not applicable to others:

  • CMF MONITOR

  • MainView for z/OS

  • MainView for Unix System Services

  • MainView SYSPROG Services

  • MainView VistaPoint

  • MainView AutoOPERATOR

  • MainView for CICS

  • MainView for DB2

  • MainView for DBCTL

  • MainView for IMS Offline

  • MainView for IMS Online

  • MainView for IP

  • MainView for Linux - Servers

  • MainView for VTAM

  • MainView for WebSphere Application Server

  • MainView for MQ

Creating a z/OS PAS PARMFILE data set

Required for the following products, but not applicable to others:

  • CMF MONITOR

  • MainView for z/OS

  • MainView for Unix System Services

  • MainView SYSPROG Services

  • MainView VistaPoint

Creating the z/OS PAS startup procedure

Required for the following products, but not applicable to others:

  • CMF MONITOR

  • MainView for z/OS

  • MainView for Unix System Services

  • MainView SYSPROG Services

  • MainView VistaPoint

Creating a BBI-SS PAS PARMFILE data set

Optional for the following products, but not applicable to others:

  • MainView AutoOPERATOR

  • MainView for CICS

  • MainView for DB2

  • MainView for DBCTL

  • MainView for IMS Offline

  • MainView for IMS Online

  • MainView for MQ

Defining BBI-SS PAS suffixes and target system parameters

Required for the following products, but not applicable to others:

  • MainView FOCAL POINT

  • MainView AutoOPERATOR

  • MainView for CICS

  • MainView for DB2

  • MainView for DBCTL

  • MainView for IMS Offline

  • MainView for IMS Online

  • MainView for MQ

Defining configuration members to BBI-SS PAS

Optional for the following products, but not applicable to others:

  • MainView FOCAL POINT

  • MainView AutoOPERATOR

  • MainView for CICS

  • MainView for DB2

  • MainView for DBCTL

  • MainView for IMS Offline

  • MainView for IMS Online

  • MainView for MQ

Defining BBI-SS PAS interval services parameters

Optional for the following products, but not applicable to others:

  • MainView FOCAL POINT

  • MainView AutoOPERATOR

  • MainView for CICS

  • MainView for DB2

  • MainView for DBCTL

  • MainView for IMS Offline

  • MainView for IMS Online

  • MainView for MQ

Setting the BBI-SS PAS historical recording interval

Optional for the following products, but not applicable to others:

  • MainView AutoOPERATOR

  • MainView for CICS

  • MainView for DB2

  • MainView for DBCTL

  • MainView for IMS Offline

  • MainView for IMS Online

  • MainView for MQ

Allocating BBI-SS PAS journal and image logs

Optional for the following products, but not applicable to others:

  • MainView FOCAL POINT

  • MainView AutoOPERATOR

  • MainView for CICS

  • MainView for DB2

  • MainView for DBCTL

  • MainView for IMS Offline

  • MainView for IMS Online

  • MainView for MQ

Allocating MainView Total Object Manager data sets

Optional for MainView AutoOPERATOR, but not applicable to other products

Allocating BMC AMI Ops Automation data sets

Required for MainView AutoOPERATOR, but not applicable to other products

Creating a BBI-SS PAS startup procedure

Required for the following products, but not applicable to others:

  • MainView FOCAL POINT

  • MainView AutoOPERATOR

  • MainView for CICS

  • MainView for DB2

  • MainView for DBCTL

  • MainView for IMS Offline

  • MainView for IMS Online

  • MainView for MQ

Adding the CICS EXCI library to the BBI-SS startup procedure

Required for the MainView AutoOPERATOR for CICS option and for MainView for CICS, but not applicable to other products

Creating the MainView Total Object Manager start procedure

Optional for MainView AutoOPERATOR, but not applicable to other products

Creating automatic BBI-SS PAS log handling procedures

Required for the following products, but not applicable to others:

  • MainView FOCAL POINT

  • MainView AutoOPERATOR

  • MainView for CICS

  • MainView for DB2

  • MainView for DBCTL

  • MainView for IMS Offline

  • MainView for IMS Online

  • MainView for MQ

  • MainView Alarm Management

Defining terminal session parameters

Optional for the following products, but not applicable to others:

  • MainView FOCAL POINT

  • MainView AutoOPERATOR

  • MainView for CICS

  • MainView for DB2

  • MainView for DBCTL

  • MainView for IMS Offline

  • MainView for IMS Online

  • MainView for MQ

Define cross-system communication

Optional

Specifying product initialization within a BBI-SS PAS

Required for the following products, but not applicable to others:

  • MainView FOCAL POINT

  • MainView AutoOPERATOR

  • MainView for CICS

  • MainView for DB2

  • MainView for DBCTL

  • MainView for IMS Offline

  • MainView for IMS Online

  • MainView for MQ

Enabling Automatic Restart Manager (ARM) support

Optional for MainView AutoOPERATOR, but not applicable to other products

Adding the CAS ID to the BBI-SS PAS

Required for the following products, but not applicable to others:

  • MainView AutoOPERATOR

  • MainView for CICS

  • MainView for DB2

  • MainView for DBCTL

  • MainView for IMS Offline

  • MainView for IMS Online

  • MainView for MQ

Adding extended function data sets to the BBI-SS PAS startup procedure

Optional for the following products, but not applicable to others:

  • MainView AutoOPERATOR

  • MainView for CICS

  • MainView for DB2

  • MainView for DBCTL

  • MainView for IMS Offline

  • MainView for IMS Online

  • MainView for MQ

Update command processor table

Optional

Specifying product initialization within the z/OS PAS

Optional for the following products, but not applicable to others:

  • CMF MONITOR

  • MainView for z/OS

  • MainView for Unix System Services

  • MainView SYSPROG Services

  • MainView VistaPoint

Customize MainView Alternate Access, which includes creating TAS and LAS initialization parameters and startup procedures.

See Using MainView Alternative Access.

Optional

Set up one or more product-specific PASs for products that do not use a BBI-SS or z/OS PAS.

See the product-specific customization guides.

Required for the following products, but not applicable to others:

  • MainView for IP

  • MainView for Linux - Servers

  • MainView for VTAM

  • MainView for WebSphere Application Server

  • MainView SRM

  • MainView Transaction Analyzer

Implement AutoRule

AutoRule is an optional event-management utility. You can use this utility to create and maintain MainView AutoOPERATOR Rule Sets, which are built by using supplied knowledge bases, input from system MPF lists, and other existing rules.

See MainView AutoOPERATOR Customization Guide Open link .

Optional for MainView AutoOPERATOR, but not applicable to other products

Implement security

See the Managing security for MainView products.

Optional

Customize your product

See the product-specific customization guides.

Optional

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