Optimizing the workload through a smooth submission of the operations

In the JTOPTS initialization statement, you can better balance the submission of operations by prioritizing the jobs that are urgent (with priority 9) or that belong to a critical path.

With the Smooth Submission feature active, you can also set SMOOTHSUBCONFLEVEL and SMOOTHSUBDELAY in the BATCHOPT statement, to have the controller add a delay in submitting the remaining operations. This delay, however, will never exceed the operations' latest start time.

See an introduction to this feature in the video IBM Z Workload Scheduler: workload optimization, available on the Workload Automation YouTube channel.

For detailed information, see Optimizing the workload through a smooth submission of the operations.