NET/MASTER RMS Management and Operations Guide

Adding a Message Action Rule
Creating and Developing Rulesets and Rules
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Specify the name of the background environment in the Submit Actions field on the
RMS : System Action panel. If the field is left blank, the system actions are executed in
the same environment as the message handler.
Specifying an NCL Queue
You can instruct RMS to execute the rule actions in a specified NCL queue when this
rule is triggered.
Specify the name of the NCL queue in the NCL Queue field on the RMS : System
Action panel. The field accepts up to 20 characters. Each character must be an
alphanumeric character, @, #, or $. The field has a default NCL queue name of
ruleset-name concatenated with rule-id. You can specify the name of an NCL queue that
you have already defined or the name of an NCL queue that you have not yet defined.
You can use blanks in the field to explicitly specify no NCL queue name. (You define
an NCL queue by using the NCLQUEUE SET command from the OCS command line.)
For an NCL queue that you have already defined, the execution limit of the NCL
queue determines the number of rule actions that can execute concurrently. There is
no execution limit for rule actions sent to an NCL queue that you have not yet defined
or if you explicitly specify no NCL queue name.
See Section 2, “Message Handlers, Timers, Rulesets, and Rules,” for more information
about how rule actions are queued. See Section 3, “Planning for, Installing, and
Managing RMS,” for information about defining NCL queues and setting the
execution limit.
Specifying a Time-Based Rule to Be Activated
You can instruct RMS to load a pending time-based rule when this rule is triggered.
The time-based rule must be part of the ruleset. You create a time-based rule within
the ruleset using option 3 on the RMS : Rule Maintenance panel.
Specify the name of the time-based rule in the Activate Timer field on the
RMS : System Action panel.
Specifying the Values of Variables to Be Set
You can instruct RMS to set the values of specified variables when this rule is
triggered. You can, for example, specify a variable in a field in another rule and use
this feature to set the value of the variable dynamically, thus modifying the
characteristics of that rule.