What are applications?

The tasks that you want to control, such as running a job, issuing a WTO, or preparing JCL for a job, are called operations. An application is a group of related operations. The operations in each application are always run together: when an operation in the application is run, all other operations must also be run.

An application contains some or all of these parts:
General data
Application name, description, and owner representative
Run schedules
Period references, run time, and deadlines
Operation data
Job names, workstations, and resources
Dependencies
Between operations within the application and other applications
All applications contain general data. The requirement for other parts depends on your processing schedules and also on the type of application created. You can create one of three application types:
  • Standard application descriptions
  • Job descriptions
  • Group definitions