Defining policies

Once the couple data sets for a service are formatted, you can define the policies that are to reside in the data sets. These policies are called administrative policies.

For the CFRM, SFM, LOGR, and automatic restart management administrative policies, IBM® supplies an administrative data utility, IXCMIAPU, in SYS1.MIGLIB. You can use this utility to create new policies, delete policies that are no longer required, and provide reports describing the policies. Administrative data utility describes the utility and provides examples for its use.

To work with WLM administrative policies, you can use the administrative application, which is described in z/OS MVS Planning: Workload Management.

You can find information on defining and activating policies as follows:

For the CFRM policy, see Managing coupling facility resources.
For the SFM policy, see Planning sysplex availability and recovery.
For the LOGR policy, see z/OS MVS Programming: Assembler Services Guide.
For the WLM policy, see z/OS MVS Planning: Workload Management.
For the automatic restart management policy, see Controlling job availability and recovery through automatic restart management.