Setting up the environment

About this task

Plan and schedule your operations:
  1. Mark your critical jobs in the z/OS® database. The deadline of a critical job should not be later than the deadline of the application to which the job belongs. If this is not the case, message EQQA124I SPECIFIED OP DEADLINE LATER THAN APPLICATION DEADLINE is issued, along with the short message TIME INCONSISTENT.
    Set DBSTART and DBPRINT as critical jobs, using a job network with the following structure:
    Figure 1. Example of a job network with critical operations

    The graphic shows a network containing a critical path.
  2. Run a daily planning job. The daily planning process calculates the critical paths in your job network, using the deadline, input arrival, and duration settings.