With the auto-reply policy for WTORs, you can get an automatic
response from the system to WTOR messages, when there is no automation,
the operator is unaware of the outstanding request, or spends a long
time determining what response should be given.
Specifically, the auto-reply policy provides the following enhancements
on z/OS®:
- If an operator or customer-supplied automation has not provided
any reply to a WTOR in a specified amount of time, and the auto-reply
policy contains this WTOR, the system will use the reply from the
policy to reply to the message.
- The default auto-reply policy is activated during IPL, unless
you explicitly request that the policy not be activated. If you don't
activate the default policy, WTORs issued during NIP cannot be automated.
- You can add to or alter the default auto-reply policy, or provide
your own auto-reply policy.
- You can use an operator command to activate or deactivate the
auto-reply policy on a system.
- You can use an operator command to display the auto-reply policy
and the current outstanding WTORs that are being monitored by auto-reply
processing.
- You can use an operator command to deactivate auto-reply processing
or to stop monitoring a current outstanding WTOR.
- You can specify a system parameter AUTOR=xx in the IEASYSxx parmlib
member or in response to message IEA101A SPECIFY SYSTEM PARAMETERS,
to allow your installation to provide a set of parmlib members that
contain the auto-reply policy, or to request that auto-reply processing
not be activated.