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Administering


This topic lists the tasks that you need to complete as an administrator based upon the products that are installed at your site.

Use following table as a index through this section.

Each row of the table lists a major task that you are responsible for completing as a MainView administrator. Some tasks must be completed for all MainView products; others need to be completed for specific products only.

Warning

Before you do any of the tasks shown in following table, review the discussion of MainView-product-libraries. The names of distributed product target libraries are used in this manual for reference only. Distributed libraries should never be modified. Any changes made to these libraries will be overwritten by subsequent SMP/E maintenance.

Administrative tasks for each MainView product

Task

Products

Reference

Manage product-specific features

All MainView products except MainView FOCAL POINT

Manage a CAS and cross-system communication

All MainView products except MainView FOCAL POINT

Manage a z/OS PAS

  • CMF MONITOR
  • MainView for z/OS
  • MainView for Unix System Services
  • MainView VistaPoint
  • MainView SYSPROG Services

Manage a BBI-SS PAS

  • MainView FOCAL POINT
  • MainView AutoOPERATOR
  • MainView for CICS
  • MainView for DB2
  • MainView for DBCTL
  • MainView for IMS Online
  • MainView for MQ

Manage MainView Explorer

All MainView products except MainView FOCAL POINT

Manage MainView Logger

All MainView products except MainView FOCAL POINT

Manage targets and systems

All MainView products

Manage single-system image (SSI) contexts

All MainView products except MainView FOCAL POINT

Manage historical data sets

All MainView products except MainView FOCAL POINT

Manage the MainView Infrastructure common registry

All MainView products

Manage the User Interface Middleware (UIM) server

All MainView products except MainView FOCAL POINT

Control diagnostic messages

All MainView products except MainView FOCAL POINT

Display job status information

All MainView products except MainView FOCAL POINT

Create online Help

All MainView products except MainView FOCAL POINT

Manage a product-specific PAS

  • MainView for IP
  • MainView for Linux - Servers
  • MainView for VTAM
  • MainView for WebSphere Application Server
  • MainView SRM
  • MainView Transaction Analyzer

Topic on managing the PAS in your product documentation

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