Defining work qualifiers

The name field for work qualifiers is 8 characters long. You can use nesting for the work qualifiers that run longer than 8 characters, which are the following:

Accounting information
Client accounting information
Client IP address
Client transaction name
Client user ID
Client workstation name
Collection name
Correlation information
Package name
Procedure name
Process name
Scheduling environment
Subsystem parameter
zEnterprise service class name

See Organizing work for classification for how to nest by using the start position.

You can use masking and wildcard notation to group qualifiers that share a common substring. For work qualifiers that run longer than 8 characters, you can use a start position to indicate how far to index into the character string. When no start parameter is specified, WLM matches the name field for work qualifiers that run longer than 8 characters according to the number of characters specified. See Organizing work for classification for details on how WLM matches the name field for work qualifiers.

Table 1 shows which work qualifiers are supported by each IBM-defined subsystem.

Table 1. Work qualifiers supported by each IBM-defined subsystem type
	A S C H	C B	C I C S	D B 2	D D F	E W L M	I M S	I W E B	J E S	L D A P	L S F M	M Q	N E T V	O M V S	S O M	S T C	T C P	T S O	S Y S H
Accounting information	●			●	●				●					●		●		●
Client accounting information				●	●
Client IP address				●	●
Client Transaction Name				●	●		●
Client user ID				●	●
Client workstation name				●	●
Collection name		●		●	●										●
Connection type			●	●	●		●
Correlation information				●	●
LU name			●	●	●		●						●
Netid				●	●		●
Package name				●	●
Perform				●					●							●		●
Plan name				●	●
Priority				●					●			●	●
Procedure Name				●	●
Process name				●	●							●
Scheduling environment name				●					●
Subsystem collection name				●	●				●
Subsystem instance		●	●	●	●		●	●	●	●	●	●	●				●
Subsystem parameter				●	●			●				●			●	●
Sysplex name	●	●	●	●	●		●	●	●	●	●	●		●	●	●		●	●
System name	●													●		●		●	●
Transaction Class / job class	●	●	●	●			●	●	●			●	●
Transaction name / job name	●	●	●	●			●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●		●	●
User ID	●	●	●	●	●		●	●	●			●	●	●	●	●		●
zEnterprise service class						●

Note: For subsystem type STC, you can use Subsystem Parameter as a work qualifier. However, you cannot use Subsystem Parameter Groups as a work qualifier.

For information about which qualifiers are used by other subsystems that are supporting workload management, see their supporting documentation.