Renewing the Symphony file

In some situations the Symphony file in IBM Workload Scheduler is not created. For example, there might be a recovery from a disaster situation.

In this example, the new current plan is created, but the Symphony file is not. In this situation, you can keep the current plan up-to-date by selecting the SYMPHONY RENEW option from the Producing OPC Daily Plans dialog shown below.
Figure 1. EQQDPLNP - Producing daily plans
 EQQDPLNP --------------- PRODUCING OPC DAILY PLANS ------------------------
 Option ===>

 Select one of the following :

 1 REPLAN           -  Replan current planning period
 2 EXTEND           -  Extend the current planning period
 3 TRIAL            -  Produce a trial plan
 4 PRINT CURRENT    -  Print statistics for current planning period
 5 SYMPHONY RENEW   -  Create Symphony file starting from Current Plan
Here are some other cases where you renew the Symphony file to recover from error situations:
  • There are configuration errors such as: the specified directories do not exist, the file system is full, or the workstation is not correctly defined.
  • The workstation definitions are incorrect.
  • An incorrect Windows user name or password was specified.
  • Job EQQPCS05 is run to create the work directory (WRKDIR) or the Symphony file was deleted (rm command) or renamed (mv command) from WRKDIR.
  • TCP/IP goes down after the Symnew file is created but before it is switched. When TCP/IP is restarted, the end-to-end server is not able to switch the Symphony file.
There are also regular operation situations when you need to renew the Symphony file, such as:
  • You change the TCP/IP port number on a workstation.
  • You modify the CPUREC or DOMREC initialization statements.
    Note: Each time you add a new CPUREC statement, you must define the new agent in the workstation (WS) database and submit a CP EXTEND or a CP REPLAN job, but not a Symphony Renew.
  • You add or change a USRREC statement (including USRCPU, USRNAM, USRPSW).