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AUTOMON®/RDO - VSE
A Better Way to Serve CICS Resources with Change Management Enhancements
OVERVIEW
AUTOMON/RDO provides the services you need to manage your CICS resource definitions and your CICS environments effectively and efficiently. AUTOMON/RDO bridges the gap between what IBM offers and what you would expect in today's faster paced GUI type of online operation. CSD file processing by AUTOMON/RDO uses a standard CICS interface to ensure it only updates the CSD through the documented IBM paths of the CEDA transaction.
By using AUTOMON/RDO, you will be able to quickly add, delete, modify, find, display, and move resource definitions online with ease. Managing even very large systems is easy because AUTOMON/RDO provides directories built and maintained dynamically while you use the product. These directories give you immediate access and cross references to requested information. Information such as duplicate definitions, transactions associated with a program, all programs that end in specified character, or any other combinations of information are readily displayed. As systems grow, they become more complex and the amount of information that must be retained about their operation increases. The more organized and documented the resource definitions are, the less it costs to maintain them.
AUTOMON/RDO introduces ways to easily document your work. Although RDO gives you a short description field, (starting at CICS release level 3.1) it is limited to just 58 characters. And for those of you operating release levels prior to CICS 3.1, there is no help from IBM. AUTOMON/RDO solves this problem by providing the standard 58 character descriptive field for all releases of CICS and a new 720 character documentation area for each definition.
Through the AUTOMON/RDO pop-up window techniques it is easy for you to keep the documentation current. When you want to read or update documentation about a definition, you press a key and a pop-up window displays it on your screen. It is displayed where you can still see important information about the definition; therefore, making it easy for you to read and update the documentation.
AUTOMON/RDO provides an interface with RDO which allows resources to be managed through temporary directories. From the displays of any of the directories, familiar CEDA commands may be issued directly to access resource definitions and perform functions. Multiple resource definitions may be selected and commands issued from the directory for any number of operations. The resource definitions are sequentially processed as each action is completed. AUTOMON/RDO displays all resource characteristics or attributes on a single screen making it easy to view and complete definitions. Since AUTOMON/RDO passes all operations to the CEDA transaction for actual update processing, AUTOMON/RDO upholds the same integrity and reliability of RDO. AUTOMON/RDO users quickly discover the benefits of enhanced capabilities.
Cross checks are easily made to find associations between such resources as programs and transactions, profiles and transactions, or terminals and typeterms. Resource definitions may be quickly located, sorted and browsed to determine if an existing resource definition can be modified, or copies made for new users--or deleted due to obsolescence. Using directories and search facilities of AUTOMON/RDO, the proliferation of duplicate definitions can be halted and existing duplicates removed.
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