Why Use the Scheduling Environment Services

A scheduling environment is a list of resource requirements, allowing you to ensure that units of work are sent to systems that have the appropriate resources to handle them. Resources can represent actual physical entities, such as a data base or a peripheral device, or they can represent intangible qualities such as a certain period of time (like second shift or weekend).

These resources are listed in the scheduling environment according to whether they must be set to ON or set to OFF. A unit of work can be assigned to a specific system only when all of the required resource states are satisfied.

Table 6 shows a summary of the scheduling environment services.