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Bursty Batch – Small Reprise

In Bursty Batch I talked about how some customers have large amounts of batch work coming in all at once, and how a new WLM function in z/OS 3.1 might be handy in catering for it. And it subsequently occurred to me there is a cheap-to-collect and therefore almost universal method of assessing how burstyContinue reading “Bursty Batch – Small Reprise”

Bursty Batch

Bursty batch is quite common. For example, a customer I’m dealing with right now kicks off a burst of batch at 7PM and another burst at 10PM. I doubt that customer is reading this blog post. Another customer has a burst of batch kicking off at 2AM. They probably will read this post. But theirContinue reading “Bursty Batch”