NetBatch-Plus Reference Manual

Setting Up the Processing Environment
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Planning Guidelines
Planning Guidelines
The NetBatch-Plus application offers a wide range of facilities that simplify batch job
setup, submission, and management. These facilities are powerful productivity aids
whose benefits you can maximize through careful planning of your batch processing
environment.
This subsection discusses general guidelines to help you plan an effective processing
environment for your organization. An effective processing environment uses all
NetBatch-Plus facilities, increasing your productivity gains.
These planning guidelines are only guidelines. They give direction to your planning
activities but do not impose a rigid planning methodology. Use the guidelines as a
source of planning advice, suggestions, and recommendations. Used in this way, the
guidelines help you create an effective processing environment that works the way you
want and satisfies your organization’s batch processing needs.
Recording Planning Information
The key to planning an effective processing environment is careful and thorough
research of your organization's batch processing needs. You must record information
resulting from your research in a way that optimizes its usefulness. One way to do this
is to record the information in tabular form. Information in tables is usually easier to
read and interpret than information presented by other means such as lists.
The examples in this subsection illustrate planning guidelines use tables to present
their information. You can adapt these tables as necessary to suit your needs.
Although tables are useful for recording general planning information, they are not
always suitable for recording the actual data you enter during setup. In these
circumstances, you can record the data on screen copies printed by the SF13–Print
function. (For information on using this function, see “Functions” in any subsection of
Section 6, NetBatch-Plus Screens. For information on specifying the screen output file,
see Specifying the Output File for the SF13–Print Function on page 3-5.)
Topic Page
Recording Planning Information
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1. Identify Existing and Potential Batch Jobs 4-3
2. Plan Schedulers 4-4
3. Plan Classes and Executors 4-5
4. Plan Defaults Sets 4-8
5. Plan User Access to Screens and Functions 4-9
5. Detailed Job Planning 4-11
6. Plan Catalog Attachments 4-11
7. Plan for Bulk Submit Processing 4-13