On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 13:45:21 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: >On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 09:38:10 -0700, John Mattson wrote: > > I am >>currently negociating with my operators to get them to open up ENOUGH >>inits because I have "loved" jobs sitting for 40 minutes waiting for inits >>because "unloved" jobs are sitting on them, and only 20 inits started. > > >WLM INITs are the way to go.
I agree. >But WLM inits aren't for all applications / needs. Many shops (including >ours) have >a class (or a few classes) set aside for JES2 initiators for jobs that must get >initiated immediately, regardless of the system utilization being at or near >100%. >This can be anything, but often, from what I have seen over the years, it >is a job submitted from CICS or MQ that is part of a "transaction". Good point. Of course, the other classes can be WLM managed and WLM will do a pretty good job of managing the rest of the system. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
