SMF DEADLINE Statements
In certain environments, such as commercial service bureaus, standard turnaround measures do not adequately describe all batch service requirements: there are those which have time- of-day deadlines. Use deadline job groups (150-179) for jobs that have a service requirement expressed as a commitment to have them turned around by a certain wall clock time if they were submitted before a specified earlier time (e.g., "In by 8PM, out by 8AM the next morning").
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In certain environments, such as commercial service bureaus, standard turnaround measures do not adequately describe all batch service requirements: there are those which have time- of-day deadlines. Use deadline job groups (150-179) for jobs that have a service requirement expressed as a commitment to have them turned around by a certain wall clock time if they were submitted before a specified earlier time (e.g., "In by 8PM, out by 8AM the next morning").
Deadline job groups are defined with the DEADLINE statements that follow the GROUP statements in prefix.MICS.PARMS(JOBGROUP). DEADLINE statements provide the JOBGROUP number that is to be used, the submission time-of- day target, the job-completed time-of-day target, the number of days spanned between those two times, and a descriptive name to be used when reporting about the job group.
Coding the DEADLINE Statement
As with most
MICS
PARMS members, the format of statements is free-form, but positional. Blank statements are allowed. Comments are coded by beginning the statement with an asterisk (*). You should modify the prefix.MICS.PARMS(JOBGOUP) member distributed with the MICS
system rather than code it from scratch. A DEADLINE statement has the following format:DEADLINE nnn hh mm hh mm d sf 'descriptive text'
where:
nnn
the number of this JOBGROUP (150-179). These numbers must be specified in ascending order. Gaps may be left to allow room for future modification.
hh mm
the submission time-of-day limit. The hour and minute, in the form hh mm, by which the job must have been submitted. Jobs submitted after this time are not measured as part of the DEADLINE group.
hh mm
the turnaround time-of-day limit. The hour and minute, in the form hh mm, by which the job must have been completed in order to meet the service objective.
d
the number of days over which the above times span (1-7). A value of 1 specifies that the above times must occur within the same day. A value of 2 specifies that the two times span two days (e.g., submitted by 5:00 p.m. and turned around by 8:00 a.m. the following morning), and so on, up to a maximum value of 7.
sf
the service factor, which allows priority accounting by
MICS Accounting and Chargeback
. It allows a discount or surcharge factor to be specified for particular JOBGROUPs to reflect the level of service requested by the user. The service factor is only applied if the service request is met or exceeded. The allowable range of values for the service factor is 0.1 through 99.9.For more information on the service factor, see Using Accounting and Chargeback. This parameter must be specified even if
MICS Accounting and Chargeback
is not installed.'descriptive text'
a 1- to 30-character title that describes this JOBGROUP. This title must be enclosed in single quotes.
Turnaround Time for Deadline Jobs
The "in" and "out" time stamps defined above are used as follows.
When a job is assigned a DEADLINE JOBGROUP by the job group exit, JOBGPRTE,
MICS
checks to see if the job entered the system before the "in" time specified. If it did (and it makes no difference how much before the "in" time it came in), then MICS
checks to see if it was turned around by the "out" time specified for the JOBGROUP to which it was assigned. If it was, then its service commitment was met and MICS
sets data element JOBSRVMT (Jobs Meeting Target) to 1.If the job was not turned around by the "out" time, then JOBSRVMS (Jobs Missing Target) is set to 1, indicating that the service commitment was missed. A service commitment is considered to be exceeded by
MICS
for a job in a DEADLINE JOBGROUP when the job is submitted AFTER the "in" time and is turned around by the "out" time. In this case, MICS
sets JOBSRVEX (Jobs Exceeding Target) to 1 for the job.DEADLINE Statement Worksheet for JOBGROUP
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | INSTALLATION PREPARATION WORKSHEET: Deadline Job Group Definition | | | | PARMS Library Member is JOBGROUP | | | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | DEADLINE DEADLINE TIMES NUMBER | | JOBGROUP SUBMIT COMPLETE OF DAYS SERVICE JOBGROUP | | NUMBER HR MM HR MM SPANNED FACTOR DESCRIPTIVE TITLE | | | | DEADLINE ___ __ __ __ __ _ ___ '__________________' | | | | DEADLINE ___ __ __ __ __ _ ___ '__________________' | | | | DEADLINE ___ __ __ __ __ _ ___ '__________________' | | | | DEADLINE ___ __ __ __ __ _ ___ '__________________' | | | | DEADLINE ___ __ __ __ __ _ ___ '__________________' | | | | DEADLINE ___ __ __ __ __ _ ___ '__________________' | | | | DEADLINE ___ __ __ __ __ _ ___ '__________________' | | | | DEADLINE ___ __ __ __ __ _ ___ '__________________' | | | | DEADLINE ___ __ __ __ __ _ ___ '__________________' | | | | DEADLINE ___ __ __ __ __ _ ___ '__________________' | | | | DEADLINE ___ __ __ __ __ _ ___ '__________________' | | | | DEADLINE ___ __ __ __ __ _ ___ '__________________' | | | | DEADLINE ___ __ __ __ __ _ ___ '__________________' | | | | DEADLINE ___ __ __ __ __ _ ___ '__________________' | | | | | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | ....5...10...15...20...25...30...35...40...45...50...55...60...65...70.. | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+