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8.2 z/OS implementation of autonomic computing
z/OS systems have many autonomic features built in. There are many control
loops embedded on the base components (hardware and software), and there
are autonomic manager implementations as well (Workload Manager or Storage
Manager).
Most second-level orchestration autonomic managers (AC managers) are
provided by tools developed by various vendors. One of these vendors is the
IBM Tivoli® family of products.
8.3 Self-healing
The characteristics of z/OS that can be considered as self-healing address many
different aspects of the system’s health.
Some of them are related to the capability of the hardware to detect a failure
and solv ...