ThruPut Manager® AE with PCS Product Overview Printer Friendly Version

ThruPut Manager AE with PCS (Automation Edition with Production Control Services) extends the scheduling goals of CA 7 Workload Automation to the z/OS execution arena.  Unlike standard z/OS, it takes into account the dependencies specified in the CA 7 scheduling database, the critical paths that may change over a production run and the importance of each application compared to any other work running. With ThruPut Manager AE with PCS, z/OS production execution is managed according to the CA 7 schedule and due-out times. Your schedule completes on time and your Production Control staff are freed for more useful tasks. Further information can be found in:

 

Simplicity

Staff are Freed Up for more Valuable Tasks

Until now, the technical support and operational load has only increased with the complexity of the batch processing system. With ThruPut Manager AE with PCS, operations, production control, and technical support are relieved of tedious and error prone tasks, knowing the system will automatically handle many situations they previously needed to attend to manually and alert them to any events they need to take action on. Your production control staff are freed up for more valuable tasks such as problem solving activities like dealing with rerun/restart events and strategic initiatives to improve the production control environment.

Simplify CA 7 Database Maintenance

ThruPut Manager AE with PCS automatically determines, with each run of a job, the characteristics of the job and all its dataset, tape drive and software needs. With this information and its built-in automation, TM AE PCS eliminates the need to:
  • Define negative dependencies for the purposes of preventing dataset conflicts.
  • Define resource counts for VRM.
  • Define job priorities on a job-by-job basis.
  • Define deadline or due-out times for jobs other than headers, trailers and milestone jobs.