Overview of manual customization tasks

This topic lists the manual customization tasks that you can complete to customize your BMC AMI Ops 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.

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Task	Required or optional?
Specifying-jobcards-and-other-operational-defaults	Required
Implementing-Katakana-terminal-support	Optional
Apply-passwords-with-the-Product-Authorization-Utility	Required, except not applicable to BMC AMI Storage
Creating-site-data-sets	Required
Creating-site-security-data-set	Required
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-BMC-AMI-Ops-products	Required
Adding-TSF-authorization-for-products-to-run-under-ISPF	Required for the following products, but not applicable to others: BMC AMI Ops Automation BMC AMI Ops Monitor for CICS BMC AMI Ops Monitor for Db2 BMC AMI Ops Monitor for DBCTL BMC AMI Ops Monitor for IMS Offline BMC AMI Ops Monitor for IMS Online BMC AMI Ops Monitor for MQ
Configure-RTCS	Required
Creating-the-CAS-startup-procedure	Required
Creating-the-Host-Server-startup-procedure	Optional
Allocating-the-BMC-AMI-Ops-Infrastructure-common-registry	Required
Defining-Alert-Manager-initialization-parameters	Optional
Allocating-Alert-Manager-journal-logs	Optional
Allocating-Alert-Manager-DIV-data-set	Optional
Creating-an-Alert-Manager-startup-procedure	Optional
Verification-of-Logger-data-sets	Required
Creating-Logger-BBPARM-member-LOGGERxx	Required
Creating-the-started-task-for-the-DBC-address-space	Required
Setting-up-a-product-specific-logspace	Optional, except not applicable to MainView Transaction Analyzer
Allocating-historical-data-set-BBILIB-member-YZZ051	Optional for the following products, but not applicable to others: BMC AMI Ops Monitor for CMF BMC AMI Ops Monitor for z/OS BMC AMI Ops Monitor for UNIX System Services BMC AMI Ops SYSPROG Services MainView VistaPoint BMC AMI Ops Automation BMC AMI Ops Monitor for CICS BMC AMI Ops Monitor for Db2 BMC AMI Ops Monitor for DBCTL BMC AMI Ops Monitor for IMS Offline BMC AMI Ops Monitor for IMS Online BMC AMI Ops Monitor for IP MainView for VTAM BMC AMI Ops Monitor for MQ
Creating-a-z-OS-PAS-PARMFILE-data-set	Required for the following products, but not applicable to others: BMC AMI Ops Monitor for CMF BMC AMI Ops Monitor for z/OS BMC AMI Ops Monitor for UNIX System Services BMC AMI Ops SYSPROG Services MainView VistaPoint
Creating-the-z-OS-PAS-startup-procedure	Required for the following products, but not applicable to others: BMC AMI Ops Monitor for CMF BMC AMI Ops Monitor for z/OS BMC AMI Ops Monitor for UNIX System Services BMC AMI Ops SYSPROG Services MainView VistaPoint
Creating-a-BBI-SS-PAS-PARMFILE-data-set	Optional for the following products, but not applicable to others: BMC AMI Ops Automation BMC AMI Ops Monitor for CICS BMC AMI Ops Monitor for Db2 BMC AMI Ops Monitor for DBCTL BMC AMI Ops Monitor for IMS Offline BMC AMI Ops Monitor for IMS Online BMC AMI Ops Monitor for MQ
Defining-BBI-SS-PAS-suffixes-and-target-system-parameters	Required for the following products, but not applicable to others: BMC AMI Ops Automation BMC AMI Ops Monitor for CICS BMC AMI Ops Monitor for Db2 BMC AMI Ops Monitor for DBCTL BMC AMI Ops Monitor for IMS Offline BMC AMI Ops Monitor for IMS Online BMC AMI Ops Monitor for MQ
Defining-configuration-members-to-BBI-SS-PAS	Optional for the following products, but not applicable to others: BMC AMI Ops Automation BMC AMI Ops Monitor for CICS BMC AMI Ops Monitor for Db2 BMC AMI Ops Monitor for DBCTL BMC AMI Ops Monitor for IMS Offline BMC AMI Ops Monitor for IMS Online BMC AMI Ops Monitor for MQ
Defining-BBI-SS-PAS-interval-services-parameters	Optional for the following products, but not applicable to others: BMC AMI Ops Automation BMC AMI Ops Monitor for CICS BMC AMI Ops Monitor for Db2 BMC AMI Ops Monitor for DBCTL BMC AMI Ops Monitor for IMS Offline BMC AMI Ops Monitor for IMS Online BMC AMI Ops Monitor for MQ
Setting-the-BBI-SS-PAS-historical-recording-interval	Optional for the following products, but not applicable to others: BMC AMI Ops Automation BMC AMI Ops Monitor for CICS BMC AMI Ops Monitor for Db2 BMC AMI Ops Monitor for DBCTL BMC AMI Ops Monitor for IMS Offline BMC AMI Ops Monitor for IMS Online BMC AMI Ops Monitor for MQ
Allocating-BBI-SS-PAS-journal	Optional for the following products, but not applicable to others: BMC AMI Ops Automation BMC AMI Ops Monitor for CICS BMC AMI Ops Monitor for Db2 BMC AMI Ops Monitor for DBCTL BMC AMI Ops Monitor for IMS Offline BMC AMI Ops Monitor for IMS Online BMC AMI Ops Monitor for MQ
Allocating-Total-Object-Manager-data-sets	Optional for BMC AMI Ops Automation, but not applicable to other products
Allocating BMC AMI Ops Automation data sets	Required for BMC AMI Ops Automation, but not applicable to other products
Creating-a-BBI-SS-PAS-startup-procedure	Required for the following products, but not applicable to others: BMC AMI Ops Automation BMC AMI Ops Monitor for CICS BMC AMI Ops Monitor for Db2 BMC AMI Ops Monitor for DBCTL BMC AMI Ops Monitor for IMS Offline BMC AMI Ops Monitor for IMS Online BMC AMI Ops Monitor for MQ
Adding-the-CICS-EXCI-library-to-the-BBI-SS-startup-procedure	Required for the BMC AMI Ops Automation for CICS option and for BMC AMI Ops Monitor for CICS, but not applicable to other products
Creating-the-Total-Object-Manager-start-procedure	Optional for BMC AMI Ops Automation, but not applicable to other products
Creating-automatic-BBI-SS-PAS-log-handling-procedures	Required for the following products, but not applicable to others: Alert Manager BMC AMI Ops Automation BMC AMI Ops Monitor for CICS BMC AMI Ops Monitor for Db2 BMC AMI Ops Monitor for DBCTL BMC AMI Ops Monitor for IMS Offline BMC AMI Ops Monitor for IMS Online BMC AMI Ops Monitor for MQ
Defining-terminal-session-parameters	Optional for the following products, but not applicable to others: BMC AMI Ops Automation BMC AMI Ops Monitor for CICS BMC AMI Ops Monitor for Db2 BMC AMI Ops Monitor for DBCTL BMC AMI Ops Monitor for IMS Offline BMC AMI Ops Monitor for IMS Online BMC AMI Ops Monitor 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: BMC AMI Ops Automation BMC AMI Ops Monitor for CICS BMC AMI Ops Monitor for Db2 BMC AMI Ops Monitor for DBCTL BMC AMI Ops Monitor for IMS Offline BMC AMI Ops Monitor for IMS Online BMC AMI Ops Monitor for MQ
Enabling-Automatic-Restart-Manager-ARM-support	Optional for BMC AMI Ops Automation, 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: BMC AMI Ops Automation BMC AMI Ops Monitor for CICS BMC AMI Ops Monitor for Db2 BMC AMI Ops Monitor for DBCTL BMC AMI Ops Monitor for IMS Offline BMC AMI Ops Monitor for IMS Online BMC AMI Ops Monitor for MQ
Adding-extended-function-data-sets-to-the-BBI-SS-PAS-startup-procedure	Optional for the following products, but not applicable to others: BMC AMI Ops Automation BMC AMI Ops Monitor for CICS BMC AMI Ops Monitor for Db2 BMC AMI Ops Monitor for DBCTL BMC AMI Ops Monitor for IMS Offline BMC AMI Ops Monitor for IMS Online BMC AMI Ops Monitor 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: BMC AMI Ops Monitor for CMF BMC AMI Ops Monitor for z/OS BMC AMI Ops Monitor for UNIX System Services BMC AMI Ops SYSPROG Services MainView VistaPoint
Customize Alternate Access, which includes creating TAS and LAS initialization parameters and startup procedures. See Using-Alternate-Access.	Optional
Customizing-the-BMC-AMI-Ops-user-interface	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: BMC AMI Ops Monitor for IP MainView for VTAM BMC AMI Storage MainView Transaction Analyzer
Implement security See the Managing-security-for-BMC-AMI-Ops-products.	Optional
Customize your product See the product-specific customization guides.	Optional

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