ThruPut Manager® AE Product Overview 
ThruPut Manager AE (Automation Edition) is the only batch software solution in its class. It optimizes and automates the total z/OS JES2 batch workload, managing every job from submission to end of execution. It complements whatever job scheduler you deploy by ensuring the jobs it submits are managed as efficiently as possible throughout the batch process.
This solution addresses every point of manual intervention previously required. It overcomes the legacy of a 40-year-old design, incorporating best practices and modernizing today’s dynamic and complex mainframe batch environment.
ThruPut Manager AE is a strategic product for z/OS JES2 datacenters. With it you can modernize the batch service you offer and reduce your costs to provide that service. It's an industrial strength solution for today's datacenter. Further information can be found in:
- ThruPut Manager AE Product Overview - Request this booklet for a more detailed introduction of ThruPut Manager AE.
- Context and Scope
- Simplicity
- Service
- Savings
- System Throughput
- Capacity Management
- Relationship to ThruPut Manager SE
System Throughput
• Workload is automatically distributed to make best use of available capacity
• Innovative algorithms eliminate delays inherent to z/OS
• Lower priority work doesn’t interfere with higher priority work
• Jobs complete sooner easing batch window constraints
A batch job can be processed in a shorter elapsed time with ThruPut Manager AE. It stages volumes and recalls archived datasets while the job is in the queue, manages and prioritizes job selection, eliminates execution delays, controls resources, optimizes system load and eliminates interference. These system-oriented improvements and internal efficiencies reduce the time jobs spend in the system.
With ThruPut Manager AE, the system is effectively used without being overloaded. Otherwise unused capacity is deployed for useful work. Workload is distributed across available LPARs. Lower priority work doesn’t interfere with higher priority work and the most important jobs are given preference when the system is heavily loaded.
One might assume all of these things are already happening; however a closer look at how batch jobs are processed by JES2 shows that is not the case. With the optimizations from ThruPut Manager AE, more batch work can be completed in the same batch window.
Further information can be found in:
- ThruPut Manager AE and Dynamic Initiators - This paper discusses initiator requirements and how ThruPut Manager AE optimizes and automates batch job queueing and initiation.