Creating plans
About this task
When you have specified your system environment (workstation, calendars, and periods) and your applications, you are ready to create the plans.
Follow these steps to create the plans:
- Select option 2 (LTP) from the main menu. The MAINTAINING THE LONG-TERM PLAN menu is displayed.
- Select option 2 (BATCH). The SELECTING THE LONG-TERM PLAN BATCH JOB menu is displayed.
- Select option 7 (CREATE). The CREATING THE LONG-TERM PLAN panel, shown in Creating the long-term plan, is displayed.
- Start the long-term plan a few days later than the current date, so that you have time to check it before it goes into effect.
- Choose an end date about one month from the start date, and press Enter. The GENERATING JCL FOR A BATCH JOB panel is displayed.
- Type the batch job parameters, and press Enter.
- When the batch job finishes, check it for errors. If the long-term plan is created, you can scan the scheduled occurrences most easily online, using option 1 (ONLINE) from the LTP menu. Listing occurrences in the long-term plan shows the LONG-TERM PLAN OCCURRENCES panel.
- If things are not what you expect, you can change occurrences using this panel, but it is easier, while you have no current plan, to correct the database and re-create the long-term plan. You cannot re-create the long-term plan once you have a current plan; you have to delete the current plan first with the REFRESH function.
- If the long-term plan is correct, put the jobs that you need into the EQQJBLIB data set. The member name must be the same as the operation name.
- Create the current plan. Select option 3 (DAILY PLANNING) from the main menu. The PRODUCING DAILY PLANS menu is displayed.
- Select option 2 (EXTEND). The EXTENDING CURRENT PLAN PERIOD panel, shown in Creating the current plan, is displayed.
- Type the values shown, and press Enter.
- Enter the batch parameters as before to submit the job, and check the output for error messages.