Work management

Work management is an important building block within the iSeries™ server operating system.

Its functions are the foundation through which all work enters the system, is processed, run, and completed on iSeries servers. Whether you run a simple batch job once a week or you call an application daily (like Lotus Notes^®), work management helps manage the jobs and objects that run on your system. It also supports the commands and internal functions necessary to control system operations and allocate resources to applications when needed.

The iSeries server is set up and ready to use. Most users will not need to change the default settings. However, if you need to tailor the work management piece to fit your company, you will need to understand the terms and concepts associated with it and how they integrate with each other to provide you with the best performance from your iSeries server.

Whether you are an experienced iSeries user or just learning, this topic collection gives you an easy-to-understand view of work management. This topic contains different entry points, so that you choose where you want to start learning about work management.

• What's new for V5R4
  This release brings some exciting changes not only to the work management functions, but also to the Work management topic in the Information Center.
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• Introduction to work management
  Work management supports the commands and internal functions necessary to control system operation and the daily workload on the system. In addition, work management contains the functions that you need to distribute resources for your applications so that your system can handle your applications.
• Experience reports
  The work management experience reports give you practical, real world ways to use the work management tools in your everyday tasks.
• Concepts
  Whether you are new to work management or have been using work management tools for years, you will find something useful in the Concepts section of the Work management topic collection.
• Manage work
  As a system operator or administrator, one of your tasks is to keep your server running smoothly. This means you monitor, manage, and ensure that your jobs, job queues, subsystems, memory pools, job logs, and output queues function properly.
• Reference
  You might find these Information Center articles useful while using work management.
• Troubleshooting
  Use the information in this topic to help you troubleshoot some of the most common problems that occur in work management.
• Related information for work management
  Work management is complex. It is interwoven with many other components. The following is a list of topics that are found in the IBM^® iSeries Information Center, Version 5 Release 4 (V5R4). These topics can help you deal with parts of your system that are related to, but outside of the work management arena.