Organizing work for classification

There are some ways you can organize your qualifiers for easier classification. You can use masking or wildcard notation as a way of grouping work to the same service class or report class. Or, you could set up a qualifier group for any qualifier except Priority and zEnterprise service class name.

If you have more than five rules at a given level for the same classification qualifier within a subsystem type, there may be performance implications. Qualifier groups are quicker to check than a single rule, so it may make sense to use them for performance sensitive subsystems like CICS® and IMS™.

You can use the start position for qualifiers longer than 8 characters. Those qualifiers are:

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

The following sections explain each kind of notation.