CONTROL-M WorkLoad

CONTROL-M WorkLoad

CONTROL-M provides scheduling support for pipes at sites that have
CONTROL-M/WorkLoad installed. A pipe is a processor storage buffer that
enables data to be passed between applications without using DASD or tape.

CONTROL-M/WorkLoad uses pipes to replace sequential job processing
with parallel processing wherever feasible. Jobs and job steps normally run
sequentially because they depend on data files that become available only
after the application that creates them completes execution. When pipes are
used, an application does not need to finish running before the data it
generates is available to other applications. This significantly reduces I/O
operations and delays, and speeds up processing, because pipes enable
movement of data using processor storage instead of writing and reading data
to and from external storage.


CONTROL-M scheduling support for CONTROL-M/WorkLoad pipes
consists of the following components:

• job scheduling definition support
• enhanced runtime scheduling algorithm