In certain environments, such as commercial service bureaus,
standard turnaround measures do not adequately describe all
batch service requirements: there are those which have time-
of-day deadlines. Use deadline job groups (150-179) for jobs
that have a service requirement expressed as a commitment to
have them turned around by a certain wall clock time if they
were submitted before a specified earlier time (e.g., "In by
8PM, out by 8AM the next morning").
Deadline job groups are defined with the DEADLINE statements
that follow the GROUP statements in
prefix.MICS.PARMS(JOBGROUP). DEADLINE statements provide the
JOBGROUP number that is to be used, the submission time-of-
day target, the job-completed time-of-day target, the number
of days spanned between those two times, and a descriptive
name to be used when reporting about the job group.
CODING THE DEADLINE STATEMENT
As with most CA MICS PARMS members, the format of statements
is free-form, but positional. Blank statements are allowed.
Comments are coded by beginning the statement with an
asterisk (*). You should modify the
prefix.MICS.PARMS(JOBGOUP) member distributed with the
CA MICS system rather than code it from scratch. A DEADLINE
statement has the following format:
DEADLINE nnn hh mm hh mm d sf 'descriptive text'
where:
nnn = the number of this JOBGROUP (150-179). These
numbers must be specified in ascending order.
Gaps may be left to allow room for future
modification.
hh mm = the submission time-of-day limit. The hour and
minute, in the form hh mm, by which the job must
have been submitted. Jobs submitted after this
time are not measured as part of the DEADLINE
group.
hh mm = the turnaround time-of-day limit. The hour and
minute, in the form hh mm, by which the job must
have been completed in order to meet the service
objective.
d = the number of days over which the above times
span (1-7). A value of 1 specifies that the
above times must occur within the same day. A
value of 2 specifies that the two times span two
days (e.g., submitted by 5:00 p.m. and turned
around by 8:00 a.m. the following morning), and
so on, up to a maximum value of 7.
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. This title must be
enclosed in single quotes.
TURNAROUND TIME FOR DEADLINE JOBS
The "in" and "out" time stamps defined above are used as
follows.
When a job is assigned a DEADLINE JOBGROUP by the job group
exit, JOBGPRTE, CA MICS checks to see if the job entered the
system before the "in" time specified. If it did (and it
makes no difference how much before the "in" time it came
in), then CA MICS checks to see if it was turned around by
the "out" time specified for the JOBGROUP to which it was
assigned. If it was, then its service commitment was met and
CA MICS sets data element JOBSRVMT (Jobs Meeting Target) to
1.
If the job was not turned around by the "out" time, then
JOBSRVMS (Jobs Missing Target) is set to 1, indicating that
the service commitment was missed. A service commitment is
considered to be exceeded by CA MICS for a job in a DEADLINE
JOBGROUP when the job is submitted AFTER the "in" time and is
turned around by the "out" time. In this case, CA MICS sets
JOBSRVEX (Jobs Exceeding Target) to 1 for the job.
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | INSTALLATION PREPARATION WORKSHEET: Deadline Job Group Definition | | | | PARMS Library Member is JOBGROUP | |Reference: Section 7.3.2.4 CA MICS Batch and Operations Analyzer Guide | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | DEADLINE DEADLINE TIMES NUMBER | | JOBGROUP SUBMIT COMPLETE OF DAYS SERVICE JOBGROUP | | NUMBER HR MM HR MM SPANNED FACTOR DESCRIPTIVE TITLE | | | | DEADLINE ___ __ __ __ __ _ ___ '__________________' | | | | DEADLINE ___ __ __ __ __ _ ___ '__________________' | | | | DEADLINE ___ __ __ __ __ _ ___ '__________________' | | | | DEADLINE ___ __ __ __ __ _ ___ '__________________' | | | | DEADLINE ___ __ __ __ __ _ ___ '__________________' | | | | DEADLINE ___ __ __ __ __ _ ___ '__________________' | | | | DEADLINE ___ __ __ __ __ _ ___ '__________________' | | | | DEADLINE ___ __ __ __ __ _ ___ '__________________' | | | | DEADLINE ___ __ __ __ __ _ ___ '__________________' | | | | DEADLINE ___ __ __ __ __ _ ___ '__________________' | | | | DEADLINE ___ __ __ __ __ _ ___ '__________________' | | | | DEADLINE ___ __ __ __ __ _ ___ '__________________' | | | | DEADLINE ___ __ __ __ __ _ ___ '__________________' | | | | DEADLINE ___ __ __ __ __ _ ___ '__________________' | | | | | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | ....5...10...15...20...25...30...35...40...45...50...55...60...65...70.. | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Figure 7-8. DEADLINE Statement Worksheet for JOBGROUP
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