Stopping and Starting IBM Health Checker for z/OS Manually

Although IBM® Health Checker for z/OS® starts automatically when you start z/OS, you can still stop and start IBM Health Checker for z/OS manually, to apply service, for example. To stop and start IBM Health Checker for z/OS, use the HZSPROC started procedure in the following commands:

STOP hzsproc

START hzsproc,HZSPRM=PREV

Specifying HZSPRM=PREV, which is the default in the HZSPROC procedure, ensures that you use the same set of HZSPRMxx parmlib members that were in effect in the previous instance of IBM Health Checker for z/OS.

Note: You can prevent an automatic start of Health Checker at IPL time. You do this by assigning a special value of *NONE to the system parameter HZSPROC in for example the IEASYSxx parmlib member: HZSPROC=*NONE. Installations might choose to use this feature to have better control on when certain address spaces, in this case Health Checker, start and use an automation product to issue an explicit START HZSPROC command at a desired time.