Performance
These statements and parameters can affect the performance of HCL Workload Automation for Z.
Statement | Parameters | Description |
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AUDIT | Specifies how much audit information is produced. | |
ALERTS | LATEOPER | Use only when deadlines are accurate. |
AUTHDEF | SUBRESOURCES | Specifies subresources that you want to check. |
BATCHOPT | SMOOTHSUBDELAY | Based on this setting, the controller adds a random delay in the submission of operations that are neither urgent, nor belonging to a critical path. |
SMOOTHSUBCONFLEVEL | Calculates the submission delay added by SMOOTHSUBDELAY. Used to prevent that the delay causes an operation submission too close to its latest start time. | |
EWTROPTS | STEPEVENTS | Specifies when HCL Workload Automation for Z creates events for ending job-steps. |
PRINTEVENTS | Specifies if HCL Workload Automation for Z creates events for print tasks (type 4). | |
HOLDJOB | Specifies if HCL Workload Automation for Z holds and releases jobs on the JES queue. | |
EWWAIT | Specifies the time between reads of a submit/release data set. | |
JTOPTS | BACKUP | Specifies if a CP backup is performed automatically and how many records are written to the JT log between backups. |
EVELIM | Specifies how often statistics messages related to the STATMSG keyword are issued. | |
MAXJSFILE | Specifies if a JS backup is performed automatically and how large the JCL repository file grows before HCL Workload Automation for Z performs a backup. | |
QUEUELEN | Specifies the number of operations HCL Workload Automation for Z starts when the workstation analyzer subtask gets the CP lock. | |
SMOOTHSUBMISSION | Activates the Smooth Submission feature, which prioritizes the submission of operations that are urgent (with priority 9) or belong to a critical path. | |
SMOOTHSUBRATE | Determines the average number of operations to be submitted, in 1 minute, on computer automatic workstations, with the exception of the operations that are urgent (with priority 9). | |
SUBRATECRITNET | Applies the value set for SMOOTHSUBRATE to the operations belonging to the whole critical network. | |
STATIM | Specifies when statistics messages are issued. | |
STATMSG | Determines if HCL Workload Automation for Z issues performance statistics for the current plan, event manager, general service, and WSA task. | |
TRACK | Determines which jobs HCL Workload Automation for Z tracks. | |
OPCOPTS | RCLEANUP | Specifies if the restart and cleanup function is active. Performance is affected when the user chooses to archive the user sysouts for the majority of the operations. |
VARSUB | Determines which jobs are scanned for JCL variables and directives. |
The amount of data written to the job-tracking log affects how often HCL Workload Automation for Z performs a current plan backup. Keep this in mind when specifying a value for the BACKUP keyword of JTOPTS.