The TYPE parameter is particularly useful in bringing a new system into operation. Jobs and tentative schedules can be entered into the CA WA CA 7 Edition database, before they are brought into a production scheduling status, by specifying a "don't schedule before" value. WLP can then be used to simulate their impact on currently scheduled jobs by using the TYPE=ALL parameter. When the jobs are ready for production, they need not be reentered on the database. Rather, the "don't schedule before" value merely has to be prior to the production date.
Depending on the number of accesses to the CA WA CA 7 Edition database and the requested time span, the FWLP command can affect the performance of CA WA CA 7 Edition. Large time span requests on FWLP should be done at slack time or in smaller intervals to be concatenated as input to the batch WLP run. (Reference the FROM, TO, and SPAN fields.)
