What r the key areas to lookin to save cost in batch ???

harsh singh · New User Joined: 11 Dec 2007 Posts: 26 Location: INDIA

hi,
I have been assigned Cost saving Task for the batch progs.
I have been ask to analyise all the areas where we can think of for saving cost.
Some of the oints which i have thought are:
1.Deleting uncessary files.
2. To Check that we need to process all the tepororary files during a batch process.
Can anyone helpme with some new ideas ???

Thanks for the support

Bill O'Boyle · Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 3:32 pm

In addition to your ideas -

01) If program files are defined as "ACCESS IS DYNAMIC" and they're only being accessed sequentially, change them to "ACCESS IS SEQUENTIAL". Same holds true for files defined as "ACCESS IS DYNAMIC" and the access is purely random, change them to "ACCESS IS RANDOM".

02) Use "Batch LSR" (BLSR) in the JCL.

03) Use BUFNI/BUFND (AMORG) in the JCL.

03) Ensure that table-subscripts are binary halfwords or fullwords or even better yet, indices. Many programs use display-numeric subscripts, which are a "dog with fleas".

04) Check whether the programs can be compiled with OPTIMIZE turned-on (IE: Reduced paging and calculations done at compile time) as well as TRUNC(OPT), which is for binary-data optimization.

05) Unless a given main-program has a very good reason to issue a CANCEL after calling a sub-program, then avoid using this like the plague. If you desire to invoke VALUE clauses in sub-programs upon each call (IE: Override "Last Used State"), then check the PROGRAM-ID "INITIAL" keyword, rather than using individual clearing of WS.

06) Pre-load heavily used dynamic sub-programs, by establishing addressability via a PROCEDURE-POINTER in program housekeeping, using the first 4-bytes of the PP in your subsequent CALL statements instead of the sub-program name.

The above should get you on your way.

HTH....

Regards,

Bill

Anuj Dhawan · Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 9:25 pm

Hi Bill,

I got some queris to ask...

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 9:45 pm

good luck

what is the real meaning of cost saving ?

maybe what I am saying has been already reviewed but ...

I would start from

- the service level agreement with your customers
--- yes all the people using it facilities should be seen as customers with virtual billing

- analyze the current status of the applications
--- usually remnants of decommissioned applications tend to stick around for a loong time
--- plan to decommission unused applications

- analyze the need of harcopy output
---- plan for a paperless environment

- analyze the reruns due to abends
--- due to programming errors, bad data, scheduling conflicts, data set contention

- analyze the manual tape mount operations
---- very costly in terms of delays and device contentions

- I will add more as something comes to my mind

but sincerely I do not feel that getting rid of a few temporary dataset will
result in a big saving

usually big savings come from an in depth analysis of the applications
identifying the resource hoggers and rengineering the whole thing

dick scherrer · Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 9:48 pm

Hello,

Anuj Dhawan · Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 9:53 pm

In my first quote I wanted to ask...what is (BLSR) option in JCL? How can we use it to save CPU cost?

Bill O'Boyle · Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 12:49 am

You need to spend time researching things like this on your own.

Here's an old link on BLSR which you can probably use as a basis of your research -

publib.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr/BOOKS/IEA5J600/CCONTENTS?DT=19940301112926

IBM Book Manager on the Web (save this URL in your favorites) -

publib.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr/library

The other suggestions posted are also quite viable and you need to follow-up on them.

Bill

Aaru · Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 4:15 am

singh,

I had worked on a similar dollar savings initiative and found the one mentioned below

- Just check if you create dqtasets on tape. Creating and maintaining tape datasets are costly and see if those can be created and maintained on DASD.

Anuj Dhawan · Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 1:41 pm

Thanks for the documents Bill, actually, these types of suggestion (which You provided above) usually excites me a lot & I put a query on the fly, in expecatation of that I'll get an imediate response, I just realised that we work in different time zones. Yesterday my office-net didn't allow me to open the documents online..might be a more strong firewall again, so could surf for BLSR & QW didn't show helpful information.

Again thanks for Your patience.

harsh singh · New User Joined: 11 Dec 2007 Posts: 26 Location: INDIA

Thanks for such wonderful ideas but can u explain me in layman lang.

Bill O'Boyle · Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 5:31 pm