Aligning IT & Business: Taming the Batch Beast While Controlling Costs

by G. Jay Lipovich
February 8, 2008

4. Identify the largest resource-consuming jobs and pinpoint inefficient code: Millions are wasted each year by inefficient and poorly performing applications. Detailed application performance analysis is useful for spotting and tuning key resource-consuming jobs. DB2 applications in particular can introduce inefficiencies that lead to upgrades. Maximizing SQL statement and DB2 object efficiency can improve batch application run-times and reduce the need for upgrades.

5. Automatically schedule and manage batch processing cycles: A comprehensive batch scheduling solution for the enterprise can provide a single automation methodology for all platforms while helping reduce IT operational costs. Automated scheduling can incorporate cross-application/platform scheduling capabilities, workload balancing and status-based job execution to prevent scheduling problems from developing into business problems, to enable companies to comply with regulatory requirements, and to avoid higher IT costs.

Summary

Fortunately, there are alternatives to using upgrades to meet batch commitments. These options deliver better and more consistent batch performance without the high cost of repeated upgrades or service failures. IT organizations should explore how these solutions can reduce the cost of batch processing. Z