Work Management
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Contents Work management................................................................................................ 1 PDF file for Work management....................................................................................................................1 What's new for IBM i 7.3..............................................................................................................................2 Introduction to work management..............................................................................................................2 Your system as a business..................................................................................................................... 2 A job's life................................................................................................................................................3 Submitting a job................................................................................................................................ 4 The job enters the job queue............................................................................................................4 The job enters the subsystem.......................................................................................................... 4 The subsystem uses memory from the memory pool to run the job...............................................5 The job finishes and moves to the output queue.............................................................................5 How work gets done............................................................................................................................... 5 What work is......................................................................................................................................5 What happens before work enters the system................................................................................ 6 How work enters the system............................................................................................................ 6 How work gets processed.................................................................................................................6 How work leaves the system............................................................................................................ 7 Concepts.......................................................................................................................................................7 The structure of your system................................................................................................................. 7 Subsystems shipped with the system.............................................................................................. 7 Start-up programs.............................................................................................................................8 What happens during the IPL......................................................................................................9 Types of start-ups............................................................................................................................. 9 Powering down your system.............................................................................................................9 IBM Navigator for i.......................................................................................................................... 10 Subsystems ......................................................................................................................................... 10 The controlling subsystem............................................................................................................. 10 Why consider multiple subsystems................................................................................................11 Subsystem description................................................................................................................... 11 Subsystem description attributes.............................................................................................12 Work entries.............................................................................................................................. 12 Routing entries.......................................................................................................................... 15 How a subsystem starts................................................................................................................. 18 How workstation devices are allocated....................................................................................19 Scenario: Workstation allocation.............................................................................................. 20 Memory pools.......................................................................................................................................21 Types of memory pools.................................................................................................................. 22 Pool numbering schemes............................................................................................................... 23 Memory pool allocation.................................................................................................................. 25 Memory pool activity level..............................................................................................................26 Jobs...................................................................................................................................................... 27 Proper authority.............................................................................................................................. 27 Job characteristics..........................................................................................................................27 Job name syntax....................................................................................................................... 28 Job Attributes............................................................................................................................28 Job description..........................................................................................................................28 Job descriptions and security................................................................................................... 29 Call stacks..................................................................................................................................30 Class object............................................................................................................................... 30 Job user identity........................................................................................................................32 Job user identity examples.......................................................................................................32 iii Threads......................................................................................................................................33 Locked objects...........................................................................................................................35 Job types.........................................................................................................................................36 Autostart jobs............................................................................................................................ 36 Batch jobs..................................................................................................................................37 Communication jobs................................................................................................................. 38 Interactive jobs..........................................................................................................................39 Prestart jobs.............................................................................................................................. 44 Reader and writer jobs.............................................................................................................. 48 Server jobs.................................................................................................................................48 System jobs............................................................................................................................... 49 Job scheduling options........................................................................................................................ 53 Management Central scheduler..................................................................................................... 53 Job schedule entries.......................................................................................................................53