If the operators are opening the floodgates, have you considered using WLM managed initiators? That will let WLM initiate only whatever it believes it can handle.
As for your TSO vs. Prod batch issue, how many TSO users are competing with the batch, what are they doing that's running so long into period 2, and how important is what they are doing compared to the batch work? The quick fix of moving TSO up to importance 3 is probably your best bet as long as you don't have an excessively large number of TSO users running long tasks simultaneously. Just my 2cents worth. Have a good day! Bret Bret Hoesly Senior Systems Administrator - Mainframe Telephone & Data Systems, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aimee Houghton Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 10:25 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: WLM and TSO Thanks for the quick and informative response. I will look into your suggestions. I am a little leery about putting TSO above hot batch as well. Part of the problem is that the operators pretty much open the flood gates at about 10 pm and let all the batch compete. That is a whole different battle that we have discussed on a fairly regular basis with operations but nothing has changed. I know the REAL answer is to deal with the lack of resources this habit creates but, for the short term, I just want to make sure that a programmer that gets called to fix a problem can actually get logged on and do something. Thanks again for your help. Aimee ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
