Introduction

Now that you have gone through the tutorial in the preceding chapters, you are now ready to implement Control-D in production. If you have not performed the exercises in the pervious chapters, please do so now before proceeding.

This chapter provides suggestions and recommendations for implementing Control-D in your production environment.

For more information about Control-D options, refer to:

• The Control-D and Control-V User Guide
• The Control-D and Control-V chapter of the INCONTROL for z/OS Administrator Guide
• The Control-D chapter of the INCONTROL for z/OS Installation Guide: Installing.

Preparing for Production covers the following topics:

• Building the Recipient Tree
• Defining new reports for decollation
• Defining additional backup and/or restore missions
• Setting up automatic orders for missions
• Utilities
  • Deleting a disk copy of unneeded reports
  • Deleting expired backed up reports
• Printing Considerations
  • Defining additional printing missions
  • Bundling reports
  • AFP (Advanced Function Printing) printers
  • XEROX (DJDE) printers
  • Tailoring the banners