Setting an operation as a critical path target

If an operation is critical for your business and must complete by the deadline set, you can specify that the operation be considered as the target of a critical path. In this way, during daily planning processing, a critical path including the internal and external predecessors of the target operation is calculated, and a specific dependency network is created. While the plan is running, the scheduler monitors the critical paths that are consuming their slack time, becoming more critical than the paths calculated at plan generation.

You set the operation as critical in the JOB, WTO, AND PRINT OPTIONS panel (EQQAMJBP), shown in EQQAMJBP - Job, WTO, and print options . You can also specify the WLM policy and service class that will be applied to promote the target operation, together with all the operations belonging to the critical path (unless otherwise stated at operation level).