-- snip -- > Maybe not your department, but don't any of the z/OS systems you > work on have maintenance jobs that are regularly scheduled? Is it > all started with JES2 automatic commands? Or does an operator > submit them and cross the jobs off a flowchart? Not far fetched > > Damn! It's gotta be better than that (he muses). So I asked.
I work in a development lab. Backups are automated by the meager scheduling facilities of HSM. That's all the admin I asked offered; I elected not to badger her for more, but she offered that our production shop uses more sophisticated commercial schedulers. What scheduled maintenance should I expect in a development lab? Perhaps scratching tramp data sets? Others? -- snip -- Development lab. You probably produce a few abends (maybe even a few SVC dumps :-)). Do you care about SMF data, EREP. Old jobs in JES2. Also, as you mentioned, cleaning up old datasets (you may not have a well defined SMS/HSM environment set up) In a development environment you can take care of all these kinds of regular (timed or event) tasks via other means. A production environment has a very different quality. Accountablility. Clearly defined roles. Structured and controlled batch runs that are tuned to their current environment. Automatically created problem tickets, Emails, pagers. John. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
