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BMC AMI Ops Automation 8.x: Fundamentals Managing TOM

BMC AMI Ops Automation (BMC AMI OpsA) product is part of the BMC AMI Ops Automation for Data Centers solution. This product provides tools and applications to improve an operator’s ability to provide high system availability and helps the operator through error minimization, improved productivity, and problem determination and prevention.

This course provides the essential knowledge required to work on Total Object Manager (TOM) which provides a basic infrastructure that manages a variety of objects in a z/OS sysplex environment. The course teaches how to manage individual objects or grouped together in sets, set up calendar dependencies, associate pre-start/stop, and post-start/stop commands, and use the layering wizard along with the various TOM utilities.

Note: BMC AMI Ops Automation was formerly known as MainView AutoOPERATOR™.

Major release:

BMC AMI Ops 8.x

Good for:

Operators, System Programmers

Course Delivery:

Instructor-Led Training (ILT) | 24 hours

Course Modules

  • Module 1: Overview of Variable and Objects
    • User Interfaces
    • STM objects
    • UPM objects
    • WRM object
    • GSM objects
    • Object dependencies
    • Client-server relationships
    • Discovering TOM objects
    • TOM communication with other TOMs
    • Moveable objects
    • IPL considerations
    • Special object attribute concerns
    • Variable sources
    • Variable indicators
    • Resolving variables
    • Automation-shared variables
    • Object-specific variables
  • Module 2: Automation Integration and Schedules
    • BMC AMI Ops Automation Integration
    • TOM programming interface
    • TOMEXEC functions
    • TOM console commands
    • Started Tasks Navigation
    • TST view
    • TOM Processing EXEC
    • Variables created for EXECs
    • Automation for object start and stop commands
    • Pre-start commands, return codes, and schedule dependencies
    • Post-start commands and schedule dependencies
    • Pre-stop commands, return codes, and schedule dependencies
    • Post-stop commands and schedule dependencies
    • Sharing a schedule between multiple objects
    • Schedule over an extended period
    • Recurring schedule
  • Module 3: Managing Objects with TOM
    • Model object attributes
    • Terms and concepts
    • Creating a model object
    • User interface
    • Using a model-attribute inheritance
    • Multiple Instance Entries
    • Layer object
    • Layer set
    • Layer patterns
    • Layer wizard
    • Creating a layer object
    • Creating a layer set
    • Using the system layer
    • Adding Layer Objects and Sets to the System Layer
    • Using the sysplex layer
    • Adding system layers to a sysplex layer
    • Layer commands
    • Deleting generated objects and sets.
    • Analysis of Objects for grouping
    • Copying the registry
  • Module 4: Parameter Members and Objects
    • Manage Definition Base
    • Parameter Member Configuration
    • Parameter Member Configuration – Syntax
    • Parameter Member Configuration – Navigation in 3270
    • Parameter Member Configuration - MAMPLX
    • Parameter Member Configuration - MAMTOM
    • Parameter Member Configuration - MAMPLG
    • Parameter Member Configuration - MAMINI
    • Parameter Member Configuration - MAMDBG
    • Parameter Member Configuration - MAMCFG
    • PASPARM view
    • Importing the standard object definitions
    • MAMSTDEF optional parameters
    • MAMEXPRT utility
    • Tag and Deploy (objects, sets, DefBases)
    • Installation Verification Procedure-IVP
    • AATWAIT or TOMCSMOB program for testing TOM
    • AATWAIT EXEC PARAMETERS
    • AATWAIT sample PROC
  • Module 5: TOM Functionalities and Utilities
    • Model object attributes
    • TOMREPRT for Reports
    • TOMREPRT Execution procedures
    • TOMREPRT Syntax and Parameters
    • Converting from CSM to TOM utility
    • Audit reporting utilities
    • Using distributed alarms
    • Registry management
    • Automated Registry Backup facility
    • Dynamically enable or disable registry backups
    • Using the TOM offload and upload utility