This IBM® Redbooks® publication helps you to become familiar with the technical changes that were introduced into the Availability Management areas with IBM z/OS® V2R2.

This book is one of a series of IBM Redbooks that take a modular approach to providing information about the updates that are included with z/OS V2R2. This approach has the following goals:

- Provide modular content

- Group the technical changes into a topic

- Provide a more streamlined way of finding relevant information that is based on the topic

We hope you find this approach useful and we welcome your feedback.

Chapter 1. z/OS Management Facility

Chapter 2. z/OS Common Event Adapter enhancements

Chapter 3. IBM Health Checker

Chapter 4. IBM predictive failure analysis

Chapter 5. Runtime diagnostics

Chapter 6. Subsystem initialization and management