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7.3.2.3 GROUP Statements


Once you have specified how CA MICS is to calculate
turnaround time, specify parameters that define the batch
JOBGROUPs, their associated service objectives, and the
descriptive names by which CA MICS may refer to them.

CODING THE GROUP STATEMENT

The GROUP statement defines the JOBGROUP value for standard
job groups (JOBGROUP = 1-149).  As with most CA MICS PARMS
members, the format of statements is free-form, but
positional.  Blank statements are not allowed.  Comments are
coded by beginning a statement with an asterisk (*).  You
should modify the sample JOBGROUP member's GROUP statement
distributed with the product rather than code it from
scratch.  A GROUP statement has the following format:

     GROUP nnn mmmmmm    sf 'descriptive text' or
     GROUP nnn mmmmmm:ss sf 'descriptive text'

where:

nnn =       the identifying number of this standard JOBGROUP
            (1-149).  The job groups must be specified
            sequentially in ascending order.  They do not
            have to be contiguous, and should, in fact, be
            defined with open slots for future use.  Jobs
            that have a conventional service requirement,
            such as ten-minute turnaround, must be assigned a
            job group from this range.

mmmmmm or   the target turnaround time for jobs in this
mmmmmm:ss = JOBGROUP, expressed in minutes or minutes and
            seconds (e.g., job group 1 target is ten-minute
            turnaround time). The target turnaround time
            must be greater than or equal to the turnaround
            time defined for the previous JOBGROUP.

            To specify seconds (ss), a colon (:) is required
            to separate minutes (mmmmmmmm) and seconds.

            For example, if the target time is ten minutes, a
            job in this group whose turnaround time is less
            than ten minutes has at least met the target.  A
            turnaround time of less than ten minutes means
            that the target has been met or exceeded,
            depending on whether another job group has been
            defined with a lower target than ten minutes.
            (By the coding rules for the JOBGROUP member, the
            other definition would have to precede the
            ten-minute one.) If there is no such job group,
            the target has been met.  If there is a job group
            defined with a lower target and if the service
            objective of THAT job group has been met or
            exceeded, the target for the job in question has
            been exceeded.  Note that the jobs in the first
            job group can meet but never exceed their service
            objective, since there is no lower service
            objective.

            In the following example, the comment within
            single quotes describes the turnaround values for
            which the target will have been considered MET.

            GROUP  1   0:10 1 '0    <=turnaround-time
                                    <= 0:10'

            GROUP  2   0:30 1 '0:10 < turnaround-time
                                    <= 0:30'

            GROUP  3   1:30 1 '0:30 <=turnaround-time
                                    <= 1:30'

            GROUP  4  10    1 '1:30 < turnaround-time <= 10'

            GROUP  5  60    1 '10  < turnaround-time <= 60'

            GROUP  7  240   1 '60  < turnaround-time <=  240'

            GROUP  9 1440   1 '240 < turnaround-time <= 1440'

            GROUP 13 1440 'OTHER'

            Job group 13 is for all jobs that exceed the
            longest turnaround target.

            If seconds (ss) is specified, minutes (mmmmmmmm)
            can be zero (o).

sf =        the service factor, which allows priority
            accounting by CA MICS Accounting and Chargeback.
            It allows a discount or surcharge factor to be
            specified for particular JOBGROUPs to reflect the
            level of service requested by the user.  The
            service factor is only applied if the service
            request is met or exceeded.  The allowable range
            of values for the service factor is 0.1 through
            99.9.

            For more information on the service factor, refer
            to the CA MICS Accounting and Chargeback Guide.
            This parameter must be specified even if CA MICS
            Accounting and Chargeback is not installed.

'descriptive text' = a 1- to 30-character title that
             describes this JOBGROUP.  The title must be
             enclosed in single quotes.

NOTE:  JOBTURTM is the name of the data element in the Batch
       User Job Activity File (BATJOB) that holds computed
       turnaround time.  This value is set only for jobs
       assigned a standard job group number.  JOBTURTM is set
       to a missing value for jobs assigned a deadline job
       group because CA MICS is only concerned with the
       setting of the target missed/met/exceeded variables
       for deadline jobs.

+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | INSTALLATION PREPARATION WORKSHEET: Standard JOBGROUP Definition | | | | PARMS Library Member is JOBGROUP | |Reference: Section 7.3.2.3 CA MICS Batch and Operations Analyzer Guide | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | STANDARD TURNAROUND | | JOBGROUP TIME SERVICE | | NUMBER (MM or MM:SS) FACTOR JOBGROUP DESCRIPTIVE TITLE | | | | | | GROUP ___ _______ ____ '__________________________' | | | | GROUP ___ _______ ____ '__________________________' | | | | GROUP ___ _______ ____ '__________________________' | | | | GROUP ___ _______ ____ '__________________________' | | | | GROUP ___ _______ ____ '__________________________' | | | | GROUP ___ _______ ____ '__________________________' | | | | GROUP ___ _______ ____ '__________________________' | | | | GROUP ___ _______ ____ '__________________________' | | | | GROUP ___ _______ ____ '__________________________' | | | | GROUP ___ _______ ____ '__________________________' | | | | GROUP ___ _______ ____ '__________________________' | | | | GROUP ___ _______ ____ '__________________________' | | | | MM - MINUTES | | SS - SECONDS | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | ....5...10...15...20...25...30...35...40...45...50...55...60...65...70... | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+


Figure 7-7.  GROUP Statement Worksheet for JOBGROUP Member