OPC/A Concepts & Facilities

Duration

2 to 3 hours

Overview

Audience

Operators, Programmers, Schedulers etc, who need to have an overview or practical knowledge of OPC/A.

Prerequisites

A Good Understanding of the MVS Operating System.

Objectives

After completing this Course, the student will be able to:
• Understand the concepts of OPC/A
• Utilise the facilities of OPC/A to improve the running of the MVS System
• Recognise the various OPC/A Screens and use the Commands to move through the menus

Course Content

OPC/A Overview

Introduction to OPC/A
Operator Instruction Facility
Management Tools
Components of OPC/A System
OPC/A Databases

OPC/A Features

Calendars, Run Cycle Periods, Work Stations, Applications
External Dependencies, Internal Dependencies, Data Sets
Operators Instructions, Event Triggered Tracking
Job Submission and Monitoring, Job Completion Checker
Automatic Job Recovery, Long Term Planning, Daily Planning

OPC/A Dialogs

Primary Commands
Starting an OPC/A Session
Primary Menu
Frequently Used Functions
Work Stations
Work Station Communications
Query Current Plan
Modify Current Plan

OPC/A Restart & Recovery

OPC/A Resources Protection and Backup
Updating OPC/A
CP Backups
Manual Backups
Automatic Job Recovery Function (AJR)
//*%OPC Statements
Recover Statement and Parameters