Work Management (Audio Training)

Course Description:
If you are a DP professional responsible for overall system performance, including operations and data processing managers, supervisors, and senior programmer/analysts, this course is for you!

Time required: Approximately 10 hours

When you have completed of this course, you will be able to:
   • Create and modify job queues that allow single- or multiple-batch job execution
   • Create and modify output queues to ensure consistent & predictable locations of spool files
   • Redirect job logs and program dumps to a single output queue
   • Implement specialized subsystems, such as QPGMR, QCMN, QSNADS, and QCTL
   • Monitor system and user activity and storage pool, disk, and CPU utilization
   • Change a job’s execution priority and other attributes
   • Code and implement a group job application
   • Code and implement an attention key-handling program
   • Schedule a time-dependent job for execution
   • Code and implement a simple event-dependent program
   • Code and implement a customized system startup program
   • Modify system and user library lists
   • Set up autostart jobs
   • Customize the Sign-On display
   • Trace the sources of an interactive or batch job’s attributes
   • Identify various sources of job attributes and the stages a job goes through

Audience: System Administrators and Programmers

Prerequisites: Workstation Operations AS/400 System Operations AS/400 Advanced System Operations AS/400 Control Language Programming

Course Outline:
   Work Management Objects
     Subsystem Descriptions
     Work Entries
     The Routing Table
     Job Classes
     Job Descriptions
     Jobs Queues
     Output Queues
   Timesharing Mechanism
     Sharing System Resources
     Main Storage Pools
     Auxiliary Storage Pools (ASP)
     Machine Pool and Base Pool
     Shared and Private Pools
     QMCHPOOL, QBASPOOL, and
     QBASACTLVL System Values
     Job State Transition
     Process Access Groups (PAGs)
     Activity Levels
     Time Slice and Execution Priority
   Customizing the System
     Subsystem Considerations
     Choosing a Controlling Subsystem
     Creating Customized Subsystems
     Multiple Interactive Subsystems
     Isolating Important Users
     Creating a Customized System Startup Program
     Choosing Specialty Subsystems
     QPGMR and QSNADS
     Implementing Group Jobs
     Simplified Event-Dependent Scheduling
     Customizing Job Queues and
     Output Queues
     Printer Schemes
   Work Management Concepts
     Jobs and Work
     Getting Work into the System
     Routing Data vs. Requesting Data
     Job Attribute Collection Process
   Controlling Work in the System
     Starting and Stopping Subsystems
     Holding and Releasing Jobs
     Canceling Jobs
     Locating Job Output
     Centralizing Control of Job Logs and Dumps
     Controlling Jobs Through Job Queues
     Controlling Jobs Through
     Customized Job Descriptions
     Using the Work Management Commands
     Automating Cleanup with
     Operational Assistant
     Implementing the Job Scheduling Function

Course Details:

Level:	Advanced
Subject:	System Administration
Length:	10 hrs.
Materials:	Five audiocassettes; Student text; Workbook; Interactive media
Publisher:	ATS
Publish Date:	June 1998