All,

Most/all shops have a production job scheduling system(TWS, CA-7, etc).   What 
I am wondering is if any shops also have a "test" job scheduling system?   For 
example, we have developers that want to mimic a production run with their test 
jobs.  We don't provide such a thing now, but have been tossing the idea 
around.  A lot of questions come up, mainly around that areas of:


-          Who is responsible to maintain?  Don't really want our operations 
analysts who are responsible for production to have to mess with "test"

-          Clean up?  Seems like test jobs would be scheduled to run, but never 
cleaned up/discontinued.  Could be a waste of resources.

Seems like there are a lot of pitfalls to providing this service, but also some 
potential benefits.

I'd be curious to hear how other shops handle this?

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Dave Jousma
Assistant Vice President, Mainframe Engineering
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