NET/MASTER RMS Management and Operations Guide

Adding a Message Group Rule
Creating and Developing Rulesets and Rules
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Implementing a Dynamic
Rule
A dynamic rule is a message action rule in which the primary trigger is determined by
a variable. If the variable is not set, the message handler does not match any messages
against the rule. Once the variable is set, the message handler starts matching
messages against the rule. You turn on and turn off the rule by setting and resetting
the variable using another rule. You can set the variable using the following:
Set Variables action (page 5 of the message action rule definition panels) in a rule
when a message triggers the rule. See “Specifying the Values of Variables to Be
Set” earlier in this section.
Exit NCL procedures that execute in line with the message handler that is using
the ruleset that contains the rule, as specified in the following fields:
Default Delivery NCL Exit field (page 1 of the RMS : Control Options
Definition panels). See “Implementing User-Defined Processing” earlier in
this section.
User Exit field (page 2 of the message action rule definition panels). See
“Implementing User-Defined Criteria” earlier in this section.
NCL Exit field (page 5 of the message action rule definition panels). See
“Implementing User-Defined Actions” earlier in this section.
Note Using a dynamic rule disables the optimization that is performed when you start a message handler and
slows down the processing of messages.
Adding a Message
Group Rule
You can add message group rules to a ruleset. Once added, the rules are available to a
message handler that uses or is using the ruleset. Use a message group rule as you use
a message action rule—to enhance message presentation and to automate tasks.
However, a message group rule contains a set of message action rules as its members
and is triggered only when all the rule members are triggered within a certain
timeframe (determined by the value of the Purge After fields of the rule members).
Figure 5-5 shows the panels you encounter when adding a message group rule to a
ruleset.