Introducing the Workload Management Services

The workload management services enable MVS™ to cooperate with subsystem work managers to achieve installation-defined goals for work, to distribute work across a sysplex, to manage servers and to provide meaningful feedback on how well workload management has achieved those goals. They also allow programs to create an interface to define a service definition.

To change from resource-based performance management to goal-oriented workload management, many transaction managers, data managers, and performance monitors and reporters need to take advantage of the services MVS workload management provides.

This chapter describes the services available for subsystem work managers, performance monitors, and administrative application programs.