Creating a Service Action

Use this procedure to create a Service Action and its associated properties.

Action properties contain the following elements:

Description
Status
Maintenance ID
Date
Worklist
JCL
POF data set names (after the Action has been generated)

To create a Service Action

This procedure does the following:

Creates a Service Action
Associates to the Service Action the objects on which the Service Action executes
Associates to the Service Action the Services that the Service Action executes

On the DASD MANAGER PLUS Main Menu, select Service Actions and press Enter.For guidelines on entering a name or wildcard pattern, see Working-with-Service-Actions.
The Action Menu panel is displayed. (For an example of the panel, see Listing-Service-Actions.)
In the Action field, type the name of a Service Action in the format owner.name, and press Enter.
Note
The Service Action name cannot contain an asterisk (*), percent sign (%), or embedded blank. The name part of the Service Action name must be unique. The default owner name is your TSO logon ID.
DASD MANAGER PLUS validates that the Service Action does not already exist.
From the Action Menu, select Create a new Action and press Enter.As an alternate method, you can open the Service Action List panel from the Service Action panel by selecting List and specifying a wildcard pattern for the service action name, Then, type C in an Act field and press Enter.
The Create Action panel is displayed.
DEAE --------------------------- Create Action -----------------------------
Command ===>

Type new Action data. Then press Enter.

Action . . . . . PAYROLL.DEMO01

Description . . . Service Action for payroll db reorg
(optional) Type the following information and press Enter:
- In the Action field, modify the action owner and name.
- In the Action Description field, enter a description to help identify the action.
The Action Object Specification panel is displayed. The Action field displays the name of the new Service Action. A message at the top of the panel displays the result of the create operation.
                                                   DEAE ----------------------- Action Object Specification --- Create successful
Command ===>

Action . : PAYROLL.DEMO01

Please specify object information for the Service to use. Object information
may consist of an Object Set, a fully qualified object name, or a wildcard
pattern. Then press Enter.

Object Set
   Name . . PAYROLL.DEMO01               (%= Object Set Select List)

Object Name or Pattern
  Name . .
  Type . .        (IS,IX,SG,TS,TT,VL)
  Part . .        (1-4096 and not valid for wildcarded name)
Type the following information, and press Enter.
- (optional) In the Object Set Name field, type an Object Set Name. As an alternative method, type a Object Set name using wildcard characters, and press Enter to display an Object Set Selection List.
  If you are not using Object Sets, leave this field blank.
- In the Object Name or Pattern field, type the following information:
  - Object Name (you can use wildcard characters)
  - Object Type
  - Partition number (if you are executing services on specific partitions)
    To specify a partition number, you must have entered a fully qualified Object Name with no wildcard characters.
The Service Selection List panel is displayed. Use the Service Selection List to build and order your services (utilities).
DEAE ----------- Service Selection List -----------        Row 1 to 16 of 136
Command ===>                                                  Scroll ===> CSR

Action: PAYROLL.DEMO01

Select one or more Services for the Action to execute. (C)copy Service from
the Available Services by indicating position in Selected Services using
(A)fter/(B)efore. Then press Enter.

Selected Actions : L =Like    A =After B =Before M =Move D =Delete
Available Actions: S =Select C =Copy
                                                                 More:     +
Act        Service   Vendor Description
******************************** Top of data ********************************
     SELECTED SERVICES
       1   <none>            Add Services here
       2   AMIREORG   BMC   BMC AMI REORG
     AVAILABLE SERVICES
           AMICOPY     BMC      BMC AMI COPY
           AMICOPYI    BMC      BMC AMI COPY IMAGECOPY
           AMIMOD      BMC      BMC AMI COPY MODIFY
           AMIREORG    BMC      BMC AMI REORG PLUS
From the list of AVAILABLE SERVICES, select and add services to the SELECTED SERVICES list, specifying the order of execution, and press Enter.The SELECTED SERVICES are used for the list of services on the Action Services panel. After you add services to the SELECTED SERVICES list, you can reorder or remove them.
The Edit Action Services panel is displayed.
DEAE ------------- Edit Action Services -------------         Row 1 to 2 of 2
Command ===>                                                  Scroll ===> PAGE

Action: DEMO.GML

Listed is the ordered set of Services contained in the Action. Select one or
more options. Then press Enter.

D =Delete I =Insert L =Like A =After B =Before M =Move P =Properties
S =Syntaxes O =Syntax Options V =View Syntax U =Use default syntax
OS =Object Set

                                                                 More:       >
Act Service   Object Name/Pattern Type Part Object Set Name     Syntax Name
*** **************************** Top of data **********************************
    AMICOPY   DEMO%                 TS         MVSPXS.DEMO0Z       (D)BMC_DEFAU
    ALTERSEC DEMO%                 TS         MVSPXS.DEMO0Z       (D)BMC_DEFAU
*** *************************** Bottom of data ********************************
Follow the steps in Editing-Services-for-an-Action.
Note
For information about Action Services, see Working-with-Services.

Creating a Service Action

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