NetBatch-Plus Reference Manual

Setting Up the Processing Environment
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5. Detailed Job Planning
access and I (for Inquiry) specifies access for inquiry purposes only. The word “Nil”
equates to a blank on either of the two screens and specifies no access.
The values in the Change Password column indicate whether users can change their
own passwords. In the example, all users can do this except users who sign on as
Operator (that is, members of the operators’ group). Disallowing password changes by
these users helps prevent individual group members from changing the password and
denying other users access to the system.
5. Detailed Job Planning
Up to now, your planning activities focused on establishing the minimum information
required to set up a basic NetBatch-Plus system. For example, you identified your
organization’s batch jobs, planned schedulers, executors, and classes, and planned
defaults sets and users. However, your planning activities have not yet covered the
detailed planning of the batch jobs you identified in your job table.
Detailed job planning involves:
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Establishing all information necessary to set up a job on the Job Definition screen.
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Specifying information about the job’s dependencies (on the Job Dependencies
screen), attachments (on the job attachments screens), and bulk job selection
criteria (on the Bulk Job Selection Criteria screen).
Although you could set up your NetBatch-Plus system without doing this planning, it is
not recommended. Detailed planning saves set up time and helps you eliminate errors
in job definitions before data entry begins. Detailed planning also helps you identify
attachments you can enter in the attachments catalog. (For more information on
attachments catalog planning, see 6. Plan Catalog Attachments.)
Planning Considerations and Recommendations
Initially, plan only jobs you identified in your job table. After you set up your system,
users can plan their own jobs as necessary.
The amount of information about a job can be considerable. For example, a job might
have multiple attachments and dependencies as well as bulk submit selection criteria.
For this reason, record job information directly onto copies of the Job Definition, Job
Dependencies, and job attachments screens.
Remember that when you record details of a job on the Job Definition screen, the job’s
defaults set supplies some if not all of the job’s attributes.
6. Plan Catalog Attachments
The attachments you planned for some of your jobs might be the same. For example, a
PARAM planned for one job might be identical to a PARAM planned for another. By
using the catalog attachments facility, you can replace all identical job attachments with