Automated operations

The design of BCF, and in particular the Automatic Batch Backout option, focuses on reducing the amount of manual intervention necessary to recover from application abends or system failures.

The wide range of error, exception, and informational messages issued by the execution controller can also enhance automated operations. Products that specialize in automated job scheduling and restart can intercept and interpret these messages for more effective automated control over batch processing. The following features of BCFmessages aid in automated operations:

• The messages attempt to identify resource usage and product functions so that the messages are more easily interpreted by automated methods.
• When reporting error or exception conditions that can have multiple meanings, the messages contain reason codes to help identify the reason for the message. This feature is intended to allow for the automatic notification of support personnel or submission of recovery jobs based on specific messages.
• In addition to encoded reason codes, several error conditions have a variety of expanded error messages providing variable text concerning the reason for the error.
• You can implement automated checking of BCF messages without concern that BCF maintenance and enhancements will adversely affect them. Text and return code offsets in existing messages will not be changed if at all possible.

Since the needs of automated operations environments are varied and unique, feel free to contact BMC Software to communicate your needs and requirements in this area.