NET/MASTER RMS Management and Operations Guide

Creating a Ruleset
Creating and Developing Rulesets and Rules
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ruleset with a message handler. Your NonStop NET/MASTER MS user ID definition
contains the name of this library.
Specify the name of the preprocessing exit NCL procedure in the following
Pre-Processing NCL Exit field on the RMS : Control Options Definition—Suppression
panel:
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Pre-Processing NCL Exit .........
Note: Initial message processing exit procedure. (Before Rule lookup)
The exit NCL procedure must exist. Furthermore, for the procedure to be valid in this
field, the procedure must contain no compilation errors.
Handling Multiple Rule
Triggers by a Message
Situations can occur where a message triggers more than one rule. You instruct a
message handler on how to handle this situation on the RMS : Control Options
Definition—Ranking panel. You specify one of the following values in the Rule
Overlap Control field:
Value Description
SELECT Selects one of the triggered rules to be processed. You arrange a set of ranking
elements in priority order as the criteria for selection. This is the default.
MERGE Merges the rule actions of the triggered rules; that is, RMS performs all the actions, but
only one rule can modify the message. You arrange a set of ranking elements in priority
order as the criteria for selection for message modification. Use MERGE when you
cannot fit all the actions you want performed within one rule. For example, you may want
to activate two RMS timers when the message handler receives a particular message.
You can use two message action rules that are triggered by the message, each rule
activating one of the RMS timers.
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Rule Overlap Control ....
SELECT (SELECT or MERGE)
List the ranking elements from left to right in order of decreasing
importance. This ranking will be used to select which rules will
be actioned when a rule overlap situation occurs.
Using Ranking Elements
You use ranking elements as the criteria for selecting a rule when a message triggers
more than one rule. You must specify a unique ranking element in each of the 13