Producing the current plan

This chapter shows you how to maintain the current plan (CP), which is the heart of HCL Workload Automation for Z processing. It drives your production workload and provides feedback about the current status of batch work.

During normal processing, the current plan can be updated by job-tracking events, panel users, the program interface, the automatic recovery function, and the event-triggered tracking function. Depending on your workload, the current plan could be updated several times per second. For this reason, and because the current plan is such a critical resource, HCL Workload Automation for Z handles it in a different way from the other databases and data sets. The physical structure of the current plan and the backup process used to ensure integrity are explained in Organization and integrity of the current plan.

Daily planning is the process of producing and maintaining the current plan, which is the detailed schedule of the work that HCL Workload Automation for Z will carry out on your system.