Dependent job control and deadline scheduling

Since 1995 BMC ThruPut Manager has controlled batch job dependencies using Dependent Job Control (DJC) and has provided deadline scheduling capabilities through Job Timing Services (JTS) and Job Chaining Services (JCS).

In 2015, with z/OS 2.2, IBM introduced JES2 Dependent Job Control, also referred to as Job Execution Control (JEC) and JES2 deadline scheduling.

Functionally, the dependent job controls provided by IBM z/OS and MVS Solutions BMC ThruPut Manager are quite similar. In both cases, this is a facility that can be used to group a number of jobs and define dependencies between jobs that belong to the group.

This section highlights the substantive differences between the two approaches, under the following topics:

Refer to the respective User Guides for syntax and further details.