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2.9.3 z/OS Workload Manager terms and definitions
The basic idea of the sample that we described in the previous section can be
used to understand how CICS and z/OS workload manager work together:
Identify the CICS workload
Record the time to run transactions
Find out about resource contention
To identify your CICS workload, you must understand the importance and volume
of your CICS regions and transactions.
WLM provides a mechanism to separate the work into distinct classes. The name
of this is
work classification, and it allows an installation to deal with different
types of work that runs on the system.
The work classification and WLM observation of how the work uses the
resources provide the base to manag ...