IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS Best Practices: End-to-end and mainframe scheduling, 2nd Edition

286 IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS Best Practices

12.1 Prioritizing the batch flows

This section describes how Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS prioritizes the

batch and how to exploit this process.

It specifically looks at the use of correct duration and deadline times, and how

these can be simply maintained.

12.1.1 Why do you need this?

So why do you need this? In other words, why do you care about correct duration

and deadline times and why do you need to exploit the Tivoli Workload Scheduler

for z/OS batch prioritization process?

Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS will run all the jobs for you, usually within your

batch window, but what about when something goes wrong—what impact does it

have, and who even knows whether it will aff ...