Disabling workload balancing for a program

The NOBALANCE parameter disables workload balancing for the program defined.

NOBALANCE=<string>
Description
Specify a program for which the Workload Manager does not balance program requests. The string specified must also include the associated server groups or servers that the program requests can be sent to and the bias values for these server groups or servers. The value of the string must match the following format:
<program>;<server group 1>:<bias value>;<server>:<bias value>;<server group 2>:<bias value>;...
The Workload Manager is used exclusively on Windows platforms for connections to CICS® servers over TCP/IP or SNA. For more information, see Windows Workload Manager

This parameter is in the LOADMANAGER section of the configuration file.

Default value
There is no default value for this parameter.
Configuration Tool
In the Configuration Tool, you can specify that program requests for an individual program are not balanced by the Workload Manager, by clearing the Manage workload for this program check box in the Program definition for managing workload page. This page can be accessed by selecting an existing program in the Programs section of the CICS Transaction Gateway pane. The BIAS parameter for the program in the SECTION LOADMANAGER section of the configuration file is replaced by a NOBALANCE parameter has the same string that was specified in the BIAS parameter. If you reselect the Manage workload for this program check box, the original BIAS parameter is restored.

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