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.