IBM Workload Scheduler Analytics

About this task

You can use IBM Workload Scheduler analytics capabilities:
  • IBM Workload Scheduler What-if Analysis
  • Using advanced statistics for accurate forecasts of job durations
IBM Workload Scheduler What-if Analysis
With IBM Workload Scheduler What-if Analysis you can modify the start date, add and delete dependencies, set the unavailability of the workstation, submit a job stream in the plan, and highlight the critical path to see how these changes affect the plan and to explore all the various results by using a trial and error approach.

For more information, see Analyzing the impact of changes on your environment.

Using advanced statistics for accurate forecasts of job durations
SPSS-based statistical analysis can help you pinpoint trouble for the timely completion of your critical jobs. Five-day forecasts, based on 90-day histories, of the duration of your jobs are provided in the form of confidence intervals. The forecasts are precise to the very second. This tool can really help you go beyond the known impacts of already accepted periodicities, and understand what hidden effects are keeping your critical jobs from making their deadlines.

See also the video tutorial Using advanced statistics to improve your scheduling.