I have been asked this question and I cannot come to an agreement as to whether or not this is true or false.
Would it be a true statement to say that JES does not start initiators and that the Work Load Manager does?
I felt an inactive initiator which receives a job from JES was JES starting an initiator, would this be correct?
I would appreciate any input on this as there as I am confused.
When it comes to meeting service class goals, WLM doesn't directly do anything itself; it works through other system components to do things, primarily Supervisor and JES.
WLM tells JES2/JES3 to start initiators if there's work waiting in a jobclass that has WLM managed initiators and the work is either part of the most important service class that isn't meeting its goals, or the system has idle capacity, and WLM doesn't think that starting another initiator will impact more important work.
As Bill said, though, the purpose of the question isn't really clear, and your terminology is confusing. With WLM-managed initiators, there aren't inactive initiators, assuming there's work available for the jobclass. WLM starts and stops actual address spaces as needed, based on the work available and the system capacity.