The main area of use of BS2000 systems in the high-performance and uninterrupted execution of customers’ applications.
For many BS2000 customers operation is completely automated, i.e. the following phases are executed fully automatically and reliably:
Startup (from system startup to availability of the applications)
Operation (system maintenance and execution of the applications)
System termination
By using modern hardware, such as robot-controlled magnetic tape cartridge systems, manual operation of devices is largely unnecessary. From the point of view of software, it is necessary to adapt the execution of these phases to the customer’s hardware and software (“customizing”).
The SDF-P command language and the Job Variable communication tool (both software products, apart from SDF-P-BASYS, the basic component of SDF-P) enables the aforementioned routines to be programmed and automated at command level.
In the startup and system termination phases, in which these tools are not yet or no longer available, the file-oriented or data-oriented interfaces of the SVP (e.g. activation/deactivation sequences), of system initiation (startup parameter service) and of DSSM (subsystem catalog) are offered.
For all further automation tasks involved in systems support, such as automatic response to events, the PROP-XT software product offers suitable user commands and supplies the relevant data in S variables.
Thus, thanks to the supplementary function of PROP-XT, SDF-P and job variables provide a user-friendly, uniform tool for automating all systems support tasks.