Configuring MFT for the z/OS Automatic Restart Manager (ARM)

Managed File Transfer is an ARM enabled application.

Before you begin

For more information about enabling ARM, and defining ARM policies for your system, see Using the z/OS® Automatic Restart Manager (ARM).

If you want to use the MFT DB Logger ability to automatically restart and reconnect to a Db2® database, ARM is the only supported restart manager available.

About this task

Using ARM, agents and loggers can be configured for restart by setting the agent/logger properties armELEMTYPE, and armELEMENT. Property armELEMTYPE defines the type of ARM element and property armELEMENT is the name of the element that ARM is to register:

You can set the agent ELEMTYPE to SYSBFGAG, and armELEMENT can be set to correspond with the agent name.
You can set the logger ELEMTYPE to SYSBFGLG, and armELEMENT can be set to correspond with the logger name.

Note: Agents and loggers that are configured for restart by ARM can only be successfully run from a batch job or a started task. Attempts to start the agent or logger from the z/OS UNIX System Services command line directly will fail with an ARM error reason code.

Example

The following example of a restart policy defines agent BFGFT7CAG1 as being dependant on queue manager FT7C:

RESTART_ORDER
   LEVEL(3)
   ELEMENT_TYPE(SYSBFGAG,SYSBFGLG)

RESTART_GROUP(GROUP7C)
   ELEMENT(SYSMQMGRFT7C)
   ELEMENT(BFGFT7CAG1)
       RESTART_ATTEMPTS(3,300)