Remote pooling can benefit an installation with an expanding workload by balancing that workload across multiple RJE workstations.

Consider an insurance company office that contains a single printer that receives all the workload. Because of an increasing workload, the company decides to purchase two new RJE workstations (71 and 72), each containing its own printer. The insurance company wants to add these RJE workstations to its installation quickly, without rewriting all their input JCL applications. The solution is remote pooling as shown in the following example.

RMT(45)     RMT(71)  ROUTECDE=45     RMT(72)  ROUTECDE=45

Three RJE workstations are pooled by adding the ROUTECDE= parameter on the new workstation RMT definitions, thus allowing each workstation to send output to RMT45. Output routed to route code ‘R45’ can be controlled and printed at any of the three workstations (45, 71, or 72).

Using Remote Pooling to Accommodate an Expanding Workload