Unicenter CA-Scheduler Job Management for VSE User Guide

6.1 Commonly Asked Questions
plan of what to expect and when to expect it. When you do this, you can
optionally use the simulated start times as the early time of the jobs for
submission. When you do, it ignores the early start time that you had on the
database.
6.1.3.4 How Do I Plan when To Run a New Application?
You first define your application completely. Temporarily set LIBTYPE =
TESTLIB in schedule base records. Now run simulation (see the discussion of
simulation preceding) with a ONLY command just for the schedules in the
new application. This will ensure that everything is the way you want it.
If you have backlogged jobs in the simulation, you may want to run the
Analyze Report to check for predecessor deadlocks.
Once everything looks correct, you can run the application in test mode with
the normal day's production and review its affect on the day's workload.
6.1.3.5 How Do I Verify a New Application?
There are four steps you should follow in verifying a new application.
Step #1 Analyze Report
The Analyze Report provides a detailed audit of all information
pertaining to the schedules being requested. From this report,
you have a complete list of everything that you keyed in for the
new application. You also get a set of error messages that
identify predecessor/successor deadlocks as well as any
references to jobs, predecessors, datetables, and stations that are
not on the database. Review this report carefully. Sometimes
you may prefer to print just the errors using the LIST=NO
option.
To obtain this report, use the JCL described in the the topic
Reports in the Unicenter CA-Scheduler Reference Guide Part 2.
You can also obtain it by issuing the ANALYZE command
online in the Job Maintenance (SCHD-JM) or Schedule
Maintenance (SCHD-SM) panel.
This example analyzes all schedules that begin with the
characters "APPLIS."
// JOB ANALYZE
// EXEC CAJUTIL,SIZE=48K
ANALYZE SCHEDULE NAME=APPLIS
/
/&
Step #2 Forecast
Run the forecast component for at least a month of dates and
obtain the Job Summary Report (SUMMARY). You do this for
the schedules that were built for the new application. Through
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