Modifying the long-term plan in batch

You can modify the long-term plan to reflect the latest data available in the HCL Workload Automation for Z database by selecting option 1 from the SELECTING LONG TERM PLAN BATCH JOB panel (see EQQLBATP - Selecting long-term plan batch job ). This generates modify-long-term plan JCL to execute the planning process. Only occurrences that have input arrival times after the end of the current plan are modified.
Note: You browse the operation in the EQQLBOPL (BROWSING OPERATION DATA) panel, where the following fields are shown:
  • Operation ws, no., text
  • Jobname
  • Input arrival date, time
  • Duration HH.MM.SS
The value of these fields is read from the Application Description database; if you modify the operation in the AD, the modified value is immediately reflected in the EQQLBOPL (BROWSING OPERATION DATA) panel, without having to run LTP MODIFY.

Occurrences that have been changed in any way through the LTP panel function are left unchanged by the modify process. This includes manually deleted occurrences. If you delete an occurrence, this is noted in the long-term plan. The same occurrence (that is, an occurrence with the same application ID, input arrival date, and input arrival time) will not then be re-created by the modify-long-term plan batch job.

Any occurrences that are involved in a manually added dependency chain are also left unmodified. A note is also made of manually deleted dependencies. Modifications that would reinstate such deleted dependencies are not permitted.

MODIFY can be performed for a single application by selecting option 2 MODIFY ONE from the SELECTING LONG TERM PLAN BATCH JOB menu (EQQLBATP - Selecting long-term plan batch job ). If you perform a MODIFY ONE, dependencies are not resolved and any variable durations or variable deadlines that you defined are not taken into account.