Updating a workload specification

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This example describes how to use the Web User Interface to update the workload specification WLSPAY01, which you created in the example Balancing a workload. Be aware that, although this task is a very simple one, its effects need to be considered carefully. In particular, the updated workload specification cannot take effect immediately unless you also stop and then restart both the routing region with which the workload specification is associated and the target regions to which the routing region routes transactions.

  1. Update workload specification WLSPAY01.
    1. From the main menu click Administration views-->Workload manager administration views-->Workload specifications to open the Workload management specification tabular view.
    2. If the current context is not PLXPROD1, specify PLXPROD1 in the Context field and click .
    3. Select the entry for WLSPAY01 and click the Update button.
    4. Change the Algorithm type from QUEUE to GOAL
    5. Click Yes. The view is redisplayed showing the updated entry for WLSPAY01.
  2. Display the Active workload view.

    From the main menu, click Active workload views-->Active workloads and type in the workload name WLSPAY01.

    You will see that the algorithm type is still QUEUE. This is because region CICSPT01 doesn’t know about the changes you’ve made.

    If you want the updated workload specification to take effect immediately, you have to stop the routing regions and the target regions to which they route, and then restart them. When you have restarted the routing regions and target regions (using the CICS regions view, you will see that the algorithm type value has been updated.

Related concepts
Workload management and dynamic routing
Workload requirements
Establishing a workload
Balancing the work in a workload
Separating the work in a workload
Taking affinity relations into consideration
Related tasks
Balancing a workload
Adding a region to an existing target region scope
Removing a region from a target region scope
Adding a routing region to an active workload
Quiescing a target region in an active workload
Routing a specific transaction to a specific target region
Routing particular transactions from a given user to a specific target region
Honoring a pseudoconversational transaction
Deactivating a workload definition
Updating an active workload definition
Discarding an active transaction from a workload
Using real-time analysis to select a target region for workload balancing
Related reference
WLMSPEC (Workload specifications)
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