Customizing the IBM Health Checker for z/OS procedure

IBM® Health Checker for z/OS® starts automatically when you start z/OS. The system uses the following HZSPROC started procedure to start IBM Health Checker for z/OS:

//HZSPROC JOB JESLOG=SUPPRESS 
//HZSPROC  PROC HZSPRM='PREV'                
//HZSSTEP  EXEC   PGM=HZSINIT,REGION=0K,TIME=NOLIMIT,
//      PARM='SET PARMLIB=&HZSPRM'                   
//*HZSPDATA DD   DSN=SYS1.&SYSNAME..HZSPDATA,DISP=OLD
//        PEND    
//        EXEC HZSPROC

Note that although this looks like a batch job it is a started task. IBM Health Checker for z/OS is set up this way in order to suppress messages to the JESLOG, which might otherwise overflow your JESLOG data set.

If you rename the HZSPROC procedure, make sure the system knows the new name: By default, the system uses the name HZSPROC for the IBM Health Checker for z/OS procedure. If you rename the procedure, you must specify the name of your hzsproc procedure in the HZSPROC system parameter of the IEASYSxx parmlib member.

Optionally customize the HZSPROC procedure: Later during this set-up procedure, you will come back to the HZSPROC procedure to:

Optionally update the procedure to include the name of the HZSPDATA data set defined in Allocate the HZSPDATA data set to save check data between restarts.
Tell the system which HZSPRMxx members you want to use.