Configure MFT for the z/OS Automatic Restart Manager (ARM)

Managed File Transfer is an ARM enabled application.

Before starting

For more information about enabling ARM, and defining ARM policies for the system, see Use the z/OS Automatic Restart Manager (ARM).

To use the MFT DB Logger ability to automatically restart and reconnect to a Db2 database, ARM is the only supported restart manager available.

Using ARM, agents and loggers can be configured for restart by setting the agent/logger properties armELEMTYPE, and armELEMENT. Property armELEMTYPE defines the type of ARM element and property armELEMENT is the name of the element that ARM is to register:

• We can set the agent ELEMTYPE to SYSBFGAG, and armELEMENT can be set to correspond with the agent name.
• We can set the logger ELEMTYPE to SYSBFGLG, and armELEMENT can be set to correspond with the logger name.

Note: Agents and loggers that are configured for restart by ARM can only be successfully run from a batch job or a started task. Attempts to start the agent or logger from the USS command line directly will fail with an ARM error reason code.

Example

RESTART_ORDER
   LEVEL(3)
   ELEMENT_TYPE(SYSBFGAG,SYSBFGLG)

RESTART_GROUP(GROUP7C)
   ELEMENT(SYSMQMGRFT7C)
   ELEMENT(BFGFT7CAG1)
       RESTART_ATTEMPTS(3,300)