Getting started with Total Object Manager

The BMC AMI Ops Automation for z/OS application Total Object Manager, also referred to as TOM, provides a basic infrastructure that manages a variety of objects in a z/OS sysplex environment.

TOM operates in its own product address space (PAS), which is associated with a single BMC AMI Ops Automation PAS. The BMC AMI Ops Automation PAS acts as a server to TOM, providing event detection and IBM REXX EXEC interpretation. With TOM, you can manage objects on a single system or throughout a sysplex and use BMC AMI Ops Automation SHARED variables in object definitions. 

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TOM provides user and programming interfaces that you can use to:

  • Define started tasks, USS processes, or Workload Manager Resources (WLM Resources) to TOM as individual objects or grouped together in sets
  • Set up calendar dependencies to specify when objects should be stopped or started
  • Associate automation commands with an object that can be scheduled before TOM starts an object, after the object starts, before TOM stops the object, and after the object stops
  • Define multiple systems on which an object is eligible to be started
  • Determine which available systems an object can be started on or moved to
  • Determine when an object should be active

TOM also provides:

  • An export utility that creates an EXEC containing TOMEXEC API ADD statements.
    The resulting EXEC can be edited and scheduled to import definitions to the Registry.
  • Commands that control objects, sets, systems, and Definition Bases from the z/OS operator console
  • BMC AMI Ops Automation views that manage objects and sets of objects from either a 3270 session or MainView Explorer.
  • A log that captures TOM activity (including the starting and stopping of objects).

Best practice
Before using TOM for the first time, review the following getting started topics:

 

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