On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 17:39 -0800, John Mattson wrote:
>> I regularly update WLM by adding the jobs which I determine are my
"loved
>> ones" to the appropriate service classes. But the WLM TSO "edit"
>> interface for these is most slow if you are adding more than one or two
>> jobs. You must add them one at a time, and for a large update this
takes
>> too much time. Is there any easier way to update WLM?
>John, you have to be doing this all wrong.
>I can't remember when I last added a "loved one" to WLM by (job)name.
>Certainly not a regular thing. Are you using generic classifications -
>either by masking the name, or (better) by maybe using class grouping ?.
>Make sure your love ones run in a specific class(es), and manage based
>on that instead. Shane...
Shane brings up an interesting point here. It "would" be easier to
control this by Masking job names... but that would require cooperation of
the applications group, and advance knowledge of which jobs are going to
fall on the critical path. Either Shane has their love, or a cattle prod.
It would be easier to control by job class, but with my company having
to comply with both SOX and J-SOX, a change to JCL for job class takes WAY
too long to get approvals from the Pope, Moses, the Prophet, Kali, Odin,
and Bast. Plus programmers usually just copy some old JCL and put it in
production with whatever job class is in it.
Changing a list of jobs in WLM is one of the few things over which I
still have with direct control.
It would be nice to be able to give JES a dynamic list of jobs which
get a certain job class. With that in place, I would use job class in
WLM, but without it, a list of jobs is about all I have.
And IBM's TSO/ISPF interface is a pain when you are trying to put in a
large number of entries. They only provide ONE empty entry line a the
bottom of the list. And there are only 13 lines displayed anyhow. I am
going to look at the GUI Mark Zelden recommended. Wish me luck.
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