Rule Types

In Control‑O there are two types of rules

• Control‑O rules that are created using the Control‑O Rule Definition screen (option OR in the IOA Primary Option menu)
• CMEM rules that were are using the CMEM Rule Definition screen (option C in the IOA Primary Option menu) for triggering external events in Control‑M

  CMEM rules can contain only the following types of statements:

  • ON JOBARRIV
  • ON JOBEND
  • ON DSNEVENT
  • ON STEP
  • DO FORCEJOB
  • DO COND
  • DO RESOURCE
  • DO STOPJOB

  CMEM rules can also contain DO SHOUT and DO RULE statements if Control‑O is installed. CMEM tables cannot contain Control‑O rules (that is, rules that contain statements other than the types listed above). The type of table (Control‑O vs. CMEM) is determined by the way in which the table is loaded.

• CMEM rules are
  • loaded from DD statement DACTMLST
  • ordered or forced from the CMEM Rule Definition screen (Screen C)
  • loaded using modify command F CONTROLO,C=LIB(table)
• Control‑O rules are:
  • loaded from DD statement DARULLST
  • loaded using modify command F CONTROLO,O|F=LIB(table)
  • ordered or forced from the Control‑O Rule Definition screen (Screen OR)

  If a rule is rejected because it is not compatible with the method used to load it, the following message is issued to the SYSPRINT SYSOUT of the Control‑O monitor:

  LDT54DE RULE TYPE IS INCORRECT. TABLE table LIBRARY library

When Control‑O loads a table, it only replaces tables of the same type. To change the type of a table, the table must be deleted and loaded again.If table A is loaded as a CMEM table, it cannot be reloaded as a Control‑O table. To load table A as a Control‑O table, first delete table A by issuing operator command

For more information, see Rule Loading Errors.