Extending the long-term plan

Extend the long-term plan by selecting option 3 from the SELECTING LONG TERM PLAN BATCH JOB menu, shown in Figure 1. The EXTENDING THE LONG TERM PLAN panel, shown in Figure 1, is displayed.

Figure 1. EQQLEXTP - Extending the long-term plan

 EQQLEXTP ---------------- EXTENDING THE LONG TERM PLAN -----------------
 Command ===>

 Enter/Change data below:

 Current end           : 13/04/30

 NEW END DATE       ===> ________    New long term plan end date
                                     in format YY/MM/DD

 EXTENSION LENGTH   ===> 28__        DDDD      Extend plan by

To extend the long-term plan, specify a new end date, or extension length in days, for the long-term plan. IBM Z Workload Scheduler generates a batch job that you can edit or submit directly. Long-term planning adds only occurrences that have input arrival times outside the period covered by the current plan. When resolving dependencies, IBM Z Workload Scheduler uses the long-term plan that already exists. Occurrences that fall within the current plan are also considered in the dependency resolution process.

This procedure is part of your normal maintenance of IBM Z Workload Scheduler; extend the long-term plan at regular intervals. Because IBM Z Workload Scheduler can schedule the job of extending the long-term plan in the same way as any other job in your system, consider using IBM Z Workload Scheduler to regularly schedule a job that extends the long-term plan by a fixed duration each time it runs.