Accessing advanced SYSPROG services

MainView AutoOPERATOR is distributed with a set of basic SYSPROG commands (formerly called RESOLVE services). If you also own MainView for OS/390, you have the option to allow access to the Advanced SYSPROG services from MainView AutoOPERATOR and to execute the advanced early warning system (AEWS) in the MainView AutoOPERATOR address space.

The full set of Advanced SYSPROG services are available automatically to MainView AutoOPERATOR if you have MainView for OS/390 installed in the same SMP/E zones as MainView AutoOPERATOR or if you have the MainView for OS/390 data sets (both BBLINK and BBLOAD) defined in the linklist concatenation.

If neither of these conditions is met, you must make the following JCL modifications:

  • Add the MainView for OS/390 BBLINK data set as the first data set on the STEPLIB DD statement in the SS JCL.
  • Add the MainView for OS/390 BBLOAD data set as the first data set on the BBILOAD DD statement in the SS JCL.
  • If you have combined the MainView for OS/390 BBLINK and BBLOAD data sets, make a reference to the combined data set on both STEPLIB and BBILOAD.

MainView AutoOPERATOR requires all data sets in the BBILOAD concatenation to be APF authorized. The MainView for OS/390 BBLOAD data set might not be authorized since MainView for OS/390 does not require this authorization. If the data set is not authorized, you must authorize the MainView for OS/390 BBLOAD data set before adding it to the BBILOAD concatenation.

Not all the Advanced RESOLVE commands function under MainView AutoOPERATOR. For example, the CONSOLE service does not function because it uses full screen support and the MainView AutoOPERATOR interface is based on line-mode.

The user security exit (ASTXA1UE) is invoked for each service invocation. Refer to the MainView AutoOPERATOR Options User Guidefor more information about the user security exit.

 

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