Guidelines for implementing Advanced Allocation Management

The following guidelines help facilitate the implementation of Advanced Allocation Management.

Refer to the following guidelines when you implement Advanced Allocation Management in your environment:

• If this is a new installation of Advanced Allocation Management or if Advanced Allocation Management is replacing a similar product, install and run Advanced Allocation Management in a test environment before you implement it in your production environment. Then you can ensure that the product is correctly configured before you use it with your current production data.
• After you install Advanced Allocation Management in a test environment, run a series of initial tests, followed by more extensive testing as you gain experience with the product. After successful testing in a test environment, gradually implement the product in your production environment.

  For example, create a series of test jobs that you can use to become familiar with Advanced Allocation Management features and functions. Use Advanced Allocation Management selection criteria to specify that only these test jobs are to be included in Advanced Allocation Management processing.

• Start with specific applications that have job names that begin with the same characters. For example, you might have a series of jobs that have job names that begin with the characters ABC. To specify that only these jobs are to be included in Advanced Allocation Management processing, use the selection criteria keyword JOBNAME with the INCLUDE keyword.
• Specify a select set of data set name high-level qualifiers and then gradually add selection criteria, as needed. For example, you might have a group of data sets that have the high-level qualifiers of SS22 and SS23. To include only these data sets in Advanced Allocation Management processing, use the selection criteria keyword DSNAME with the INCLUDE keyword. Add selection criteria as you become familiar with Advanced Allocation Management.
• When you add rule definitions, add the RULEDEF_TEST keyword and set it to ENABLE to verify that the selection criteria matches the jobs, data sets, and so on, that you intend. After you successfully test the rule definitions, set RULEDEF_TEST to DISABLE, or remove the keyword and allow Advanced Allocation Management to perform processing.