On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:32:31 +0000, Terry Draper wrote:
>I seem to remember that there was a JOB restructuring function available
with Batch Pipes. Not aware that it was used much. Or if its still around.
>
>The problem with that product was that it relied on history. As soon as you
change a JOB, for the next N (not sure how many) runs it does no
optimization. This is while it relearns the new JOB structure. I think any JCL
change to the JOB would stop the optimization. Thus the batch window will
run longer for this period of relearning. Also there were several things it
could
not detect.
You have confused IBM's Batch Pipes ("BatchPipes/MVS") with BMC's
MAINVIEW Batch Optimizer. BMC's BO relies on the job history, much as you
said. BatchPipes relies on a one-time manual conversion and it is all smooth
sailing from there. (No history, no downstream relearning.)
And, as the poster from Brazil stated - it works great.
>Me, I would go with a manual process to fix the big gains.
Me, too. One and done.
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