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Process Control

Process control is the event-driven main component of the Server. The system activity events that are recorded by SMF and RMF are propagated through the supplied SMF/RMF user-exits to this component. For every event (for example, start/terminate a job, step, or program, file activity, and so on), there is an action defined. If the event is of interest for batch controlling, the event data is summarized and compared with possible existing history data from the database. When abnormal resource consumption is detected, the process control component automatically initiates a measurement request for the job, step, or program in question.