Refreshing the long-term plan

HCL Workload Automation for Z has a safeguard against changing plans after they are used. After an occurrence in the long-term plan has been scheduled in a current plan (CP), you cannot change it in the long-term plan, nor can you schedule it a second time in a current plan. There might be times, however, when you need to bypass this safeguard. The refresh function is provided for this purpose.
Note: Use the refresh function only when you have no other alternative because your current plan will be deleted.
You might have a situation in which you want to delete the current plan and produce a new current plan for the current period, using a new version of the long-term plan. To do this, you must go through a complete replanning cycle, including producing a new long-term plan and current plan. To do this, first run a refresh, which:
  • Makes already scheduled occurrences available to both long-term and daily planning.
  • Deletes the current plan so that you can make a new current plan.

If you want completely new plans, follow the refresh function with a CREATE of the long-term plan and then a daily planning EXTEND. The create long-term plan function is necessary only if the old long-term plan is no longer valid.

If an LTP re-creation is needed (to re-create a long-term plan) after scratching the current plan, the user must also keep the LTP related data set (LB, LD) content in synch with LT. A plan that runs processing normally scheduled for a future or past day of processing can be created. This procedure effectively re-creates any specified day of processing. The following procedure can be used if a day of processing was lost due to an emergency:
  1. CP refresh (dialog option 9.5)
  2. Create LTP with the date you want
  3. CP extend for the date you want
  4. Run jobs needed on the date you want
  5. CP refresh
  6. Create LTP for normal date
  7. CP extend for normal date
Use this procedure carefully and only in exceptional situations.