I just did some research on the old faithful Google for Batchpipes. I found in Wikipedia, in the History section: BatchPipes Version 1 was developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s simply as a technique to speed up MVS/ESA batch processing. In 1997 the functionality of BatchPipes was integrated into a larger IBM product - SmartBatch (which incorporated two BMC Corporation product features: DataAccelerator and BatchAccelerator). However SmartBatch was discontinued in April 2000. Subsequently BatchPipes Version 2 was released, incorporating BatchPipes Version 1 and some additional features from SmartBatch: BatchPipePlex and BatchPipeWorks. BatchPipes Version 2 is still a marketed IBM product. It was SmartBatch that I was thinking of.
Terry Draper zSeries Performance Consultant [email protected] mobile: +966 556730876 --- On Fri, 20/3/09, Nemo <[email protected]> wrote: From: Nemo <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Any Batch Pipes experience? To: [email protected] Date: Friday, 20 March, 2009, 5:43 PM 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
