A business scenario

This scenario shows how an operator can monitor the jobs that are critical for the customer’s business and that must complete by their deadline.

The operator uses the product dialog to meet a Service Level Agreement (SLA) that requires a DB2® database up and running each day by 3 PM, after the database backup.

He needs to be informed whether critical jobs risk missing their deadline, to take the appropriate actions if needed. While the plan is running, the operator expects that the scheduler dynamically controls the network of submitted jobs, detecting when a critical job predecessor is late, long running or ended with an error.