On Tue, 1 May 2012 14:32:44 -0500, Tom Marchant <m42tom-ibmm...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >I didn't say "All" batch is discretionary. Also, not all production batch >has the same requirements. > Sorry about that, my brain saw "most" as "all" when I read it the first time. I agree that all prod batch isn't alike either in most shops. Typically I've seen at least a "hot batch" type SC for production also. I know some shops I've been at had more than 2, but I think 2 production batch SCs should suffice for most environments. >Remember that discretionary work is managed like a Mean Time To Wait >group. IMO low priority work is managed better in discretionary than with >either a low velocity goal or a low response time goal. > I like MTTW, and that is a benefit of discretionary. Too bad you can't turn a switch on for other batch SCs to use MTTW. However, that isn't a good enough reason at most shops I've been at to give production batch a discretionary goal. Which really means - no goal, no SLA, whenever you get to it. Even if doing that gets by without complaints (because you have enough extra cycles to service it), you probably aren't setting up your policy to meet business objectives. I've never been at a shop that said production batch can finish "whenever the system gets around to it". Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
