Once the couple data sets for a policy are formatted, you can define and activate the policies that are to reside in the data sets. You can define as many policies as the data set is formatted for. You can combine administrative policies for more than one policy (for example, CFRM and SFM) in the same couple data set, as long as you have formatted the data set to support both types of data.

The administrative data utility, IXCMIAPU, which resides in SYS1.MIGLIB, allows you to define, update, and delete CFRM, SFM, system logger, and automatic restart management policies, and to run reports describing those policies. See Administrative data utility.

The WLM administrative application is available to define the WLM policy. See z/OS MVS Planning: Workload Management.