Adaptive Scheduling

When defining the sysplex policy, the automation administrator can specify that certain resources are backups for other resources. In order to meet or maintain application availability, SA z/OS will activate these resources (if no other requests or policy definitions are opposed). This means that if an application's normal configuration is unavailable, SA z/OS will start an alternate configuration that will provide the same service.

This can be configured so that no operator intervention is required.

This feature works best when the automation administrator sets schedules on a group level, rather than on an individual resource level. Applications need to be defined in groups, because it is selective request propagation by the group resources that achieves the effect.