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Restart Parameters

There are several parameters you can choose to determine where, under what circumstances, and how many times, Control-M is to be restarted. Some of these restart parameters are described in the following table:

Table 120 Restart Parameters

Parameter

Description

TARGET_SYSTEM

Systems on which Control-M can be restarted in a cross-system restart.

ELEMENT

Element name that represents Control-M. This must exactly match the ARMELMNT CTMPARM parameter.

RESTART_ATTEMPTS

Maximum number of times that the operating system should attempt to restart Control-M. This limit prevents the operating system from continually restarting an element that is recursively terminating.

TERMTYPE

Specifies under which condition the operating system should restart Control-M. Valid values are:

  • ALLTERM—Indicates that Control-M should be restarted if the address space terminates, or if the system terminates.
  • ELEMTERM—Indicates that Control-M should be restarted only if the address space terminates.

RESTART_METHOD

Specifies the command text that the operating system is to use to restart the element. The statement RESTART_METHOD (BOTH,PERSIST) indicates that the operating system is to use the command text that previously started Control-M.

When setting up an ARM policy, do not use this parameter. For more information on when to use this parameter, see Automatic Restart Management and Control-M Failure.

To obtain information about elements of the automatic restart manager while the system is active, you can issue the D XCF,ARMSTATUS,DETAIL MVS operator command. For more information about this command, see the discussion about displaying cross system coupling facility (XCF) information, in the IBM manual MVS System Commands.

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Automatic Restart Management Support