Visara Master Console Center Consultants Manual - Manual (Page 8)

Master Console Center
MCC
March 2007
For example, MVS creates a message when jobs end. In almost all cases this message can be
ignored by operations. When a critical job such as CICS, which supports thousands of online
users ends, MCSTARS can search for the CICS ended message on production LPARs and cause
an MCC alert.
Some programs create messages that, while flagged as requiring operator action, do not. For
example, a remote printing product flags printer out of paper messages as requiring operator
action. Remote users, not operations, normally handle this condition. Using MCCSTARS filters,
these messages can be ignored on the LPAR. Alternatively, these messages can be ignored at the
MCC server using the GCL user exit script.
Installation
MCCSTARS runs as an MVS-started task. It can be installed in under an hour without an IPL.
Three MVS data sets must be created, an MVS command must be issued and a simple JCL
member must be added to an MVS procedure library. MCCSTARS can be run as a batch job
during initial testing and then changed to a started task at customer convenience.
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