Similar to member affinity, a job may be assigned a scheduling environment to ensure it executes on specific member(s) in the MAS with the SCHENV= keyword parameter on the JOB statement or using the $T Job JES2 command. Scheduling environments are installation-defined 16-character names which may be available on any of the MVS™ systems in the sysplex, or may be available on none of the systems.

JES2 can display the scheduling environment for a specified job, and list those jobs waiting for a specified scheduling environment.

SDSF can also be used to display all the scheduling environments defined to the WLM and on which members in the MAS each is available using the SE option. The scheduling environment assigned to a job can be update or deleted using the $T Job command.

For more information on scheduling environments, see Job scheduling environment.