Defining an ARM policy

Set up your ARM policy as follows:

• Define RESTART_GROUPs for each queue manager instance that also contain any CICS or IMS subsystems that connect to that queue manager instance. If you use a subsystem naming convention, you might be able to use the '?' and '*' wild-card characters in your element names to define RESTART_GROUPs with minimum definition effort.

• Specify TERMTYPE(ELEMTERM) for your channel initiators to indicate that they will be restarted only if the channel initiator has failed and the z/OS image has not failed.

• Specify TERMTYPE(ALLTERM) for your queue managers to indicate that they will be restarted if either the queue manager has failed or the z/OS image has failed.

• Specify RESTART_METHOD(BOTH, PERSIST) for both queue managers and channel initiators. This tells ARM to restart using the JCL it saved (after resolution of system symbols) during the last startup. It tells ARM to do this irrespective of whether the individual element failed, or the z/OS image failed.

• Accept the default values for all the other ARM policy options.