Ah, to keep with the 80's theme, "way, dude" if you have lots of time on your
hands. Yes, the user could insert another JOB card, but with thousands of jobs
executing, and not being a consultant, I have better things to do than waste my
company's dollars trying to manually streamline my batch processes.
And of course there are no IO savings by inserting another JOB card.
MAINVIEW Batch Optimizer provides the ability to pipe around DB2 or IMS steps
to negate any negative impact. It's all a very simple process to implement.
Michael Spencer
BMC Software
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Subject: Re: Any Batch Pipes experience?
On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 07:45:09 -0500, Spencer, Mike wrote:
>Batch Pipes can only move data between two different jobs. It cannot
>move
data between steps because in a Batch Pipes world, there is no way to get
multiple steps running in parallel for the pipe to work.
"no way"?!? All the user needs to do is insert another JOB card (non-duplicate
name is a plus but not a requirement if JES' duplicate jobs are allowed to
execute concurrently).
That sounds like a "way" to me.
>MAINVIEW Batch Optimizer from BMC will run steps in parallel, entire
>jobs in
parallel, and optimizes QSAM and native VSAM I/O processing among other items.
Does BMC's MAINVIEW Batch Optimizer have a clue if more than one of those
parallel job steps are updating the same DB2 table (and thus potentially
causing damage)? Some steps have implicit serialization requirements. How
does BO cope with those?
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