1.4.1 Reduction of development man-hours for operations design and system setup

Since you can batch export a large amount of jobnets and jobs, you can reduce the amount of time required to define each unit individually.
The definition information management template itself can be used as a job definition document/parameter sheet, to clarify and facilitate management of unit definition information that is created during operations design. The unit definition information includes the context of levels and execution order for each unit, files to execute, unit names, comments and scheduling information. This document is created by the development/maintenance group, and once approved, is used during system setup by the common operations group to build the unit. This means that you can save the trouble of creating a job definition document/parameter sheet used only for operations design and system setup.
Since you can export units directly from the definition information management template, you can save the trouble of using JP1/AJS3 - View, and commands to define units while referencing the job definition document/parameter sheet.
Since you can use the error-checking function to check for errors in the definition contents, you can reduce the number of definition mistakes. Also, since error locations are highlighted, less time is needed to locate errors.

Definition operations during system setup, before and after JP1/AJS3 - Definition Assistant installation

The following figure shows the operations for unit definition, which are representative of those during JP1/AJS system setup.

Figure 1‒4: Operations for unit definition, before and after JP1/AJS3 - Definition Assistant installation