Performance

These statements and parameters can affect the performance of IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS.

Table 14. Performance-related parameters
Statement Keywords Description
AUDIT Specifies how much audit information is produced
ALERTS LATEOPER Use only when deadlines are accurate
AUTHDEF SUBRESOURCES Specifies subresources that you want to check
EWTROPTS STEPEVENTS Specifies when IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS creates events for ending job-steps
PRINTEVENTS Specifies if IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS creates events for print tasks (type 4)
HOLDJOB Specifies if IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS holds and releases jobs on the JES queue
EWWAIT Specifies the time between reads of a submit/release data set
JTOPTS BACKUP Specifies if a CP backup is performed automatically and how many records are written to the JT log between backups
EVELIM Specifies how often statistics messages related to the STATMSG keyword are issued
MAXJSFILE Specifies if a JS backup is performed automatically and how large the JCL repository file grows before IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS performs a backup
QUEUELEN Specifies the number of operations IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS starts when the workstation analyzer subtask gets the CP lock
STATIM Specifies when statistics messages are issued
STATMSG Determines if IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS issues performance statistics for the current plan, event manager, general service, and WSA task
TRACK Determines which jobs IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS tracks
OPCOPTS RCLEANUP Specifies if the restart and cleanup function is active. Performance is affected when the user chooses to archive the user sysouts for the majority of the operations.
VARSUB Determines which jobs are scanned for JCL variables and directives
TOPOLOGY LOGLINES Specifies the maximum number of lines that the Job Log Retriever returns for a single Job Log.

The amount of data written to the job-tracking log affects how often IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS performs a current plan backup. Keep this in mind when specifying a value for the BACKUP keyword of JTOPTS.