Greater workloads and complex interdependencies among jobs make both monitoring schedules and predicting batch performance difficult. Overwhelming, complex environments require proven solutions to forecast workloads, to verify performance, and to understand scheduling and Job Control Language (JCL). ASG-Workload Optimization Suite, comprised of ASG-Workload Planner, ASG-Workload Analyzer, and ASG-Workload Mapper, addresses these concerns and allows production control, operations management, and other data center staff to better manage critical, batch-processing environments.

ASG-Workload Planner gives data center staffs the ability to better understand complex schedules from a variety of mainframe scheduling systems. ASG-Workload Planner takes complex information contained in a scheduling system database and transforms the data into interactive graphic flowcharts. Forecast information, also collected from the scheduling system, is used to create a series of graphs that predict the performance of scheduled processing.

• Provides drill-down, graphic representations of scheduled flows for analysis of scheduled batch windows and graphically identifies job predecessors and successors
• Identifies critical paths for any job in a schedule with a click of a mouse
• Quickly and efficiently creates interactive, graphic displays of schedules - ideal for disaster recovery
• Graphically displays peak and slow times in batch windows
• Interfaces with ASG-Zeke, CA-7, IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler, and most other third-party mainframe scheduling solutions

• ASG-Zeke for automated scheduling
• ASG-Workload Analyzer job analysis tool