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Policy-driven plan
The new HCL Universal Orchestrator policy-driven adaptive plan makes your workload more autonomous, dynamic and scalable.
Policy-driven adaptive plan scenario
This topic shows how the HCL Universal Orchestrator policy-driven plan operates in a practical business scenario.

Orchestrating
Orchestrate anything with HCL Universal Orchestrator.
- Orchestration CLI commands
  You can use the various command options in Orchestration CLI to achieve specific results. The command options are not case sensitive and you can use either uppercase or lowercase letters.
- Job stream definition
  This topic introduces the job stream definition, that can be managed from the Orchestration CLI and from the Dynamic Workload Console.
- Job definition
  This topic introduces the job definition, that can be managed from the Orchestration CLI and from the Dynamic Workload Console.
- Calendar definition
  This topic introduces the calendar definition, that can be managed from the Orchestration CLI and from the Dynamic Workload Console.
- Folder definition
  This topic introduces the folder definition, that can be managed from the Orchestration CLI and from the Dynamic Workload Console.
- Credentials definition
  This topic introduces credentials definition, that can be managed from the Orchestration CLI and from the Dynamic Workload Console.
- Variable table definition
  This topic introduces the variable table definition, that can be managed from the Orchestration CLI and from the Dynamic Workload Console.
- Workstation definition
  This topic introduces the workstation definition, that can be done from the Orchestration CLI and from the Dynamic Workload Console.
- Managing matching criteria
  In this topic you can find a description of matching criteria.
- Managing time zones
  In this topic you can find information about managing time zones.
- Policy-driven plan
  The new HCL Universal Orchestrator policy-driven adaptive plan makes your workload more autonomous, dynamic and scalable.
  - Policy-driven adaptive plan scenario
    This topic shows how the HCL Universal Orchestrator policy-driven plan operates in a practical business scenario.
  - Dependencies
    Job stream dependencies in the HCL Universal Orchestrator policy-driven plan have been updated to match the plan improved flexibility.
- Data exchange and transformation
  This topic explains how you can streamline your workflows using data exchange and transformation.

Scenario

This topic shows how the HCL Universal Orchestrator policy-driven plan operates in a practical business scenario.

About this task

Company X offers a gifting service and uses the HCL Universal Orchestrator to schedule their gifts to be sent out to their subscribers on every official holiday every year.

In this scenario, the date is the 19^th of December and gifts are scheduled to be sent out on the 25^th of December and on the 1^st of January.

Following an event of national relevance, a new holiday is officially instituted for the 20^th of December. The customers adhering to the services of Company X are expecting a gift to be sent on every official holiday, even if the holiday has just been instituted, which means the HCL Universal Orchestrator plan used by Company X needs to be modified.

The user responsible for the plan at Company X needs to change the calendar that regulates when gifts are sent out, let’s call it “GIFTS_CAL”. Immediately, a new gift for the 20^th of December has been scheduled to be sent out.

This is how the plan adapts to the last-minute change:

Procedure

Editing the “GIFT_SENDOUT_JS” definition triggers a plan reconciliation for this specific job stream.
All the planned instances of “GIFT_SENDOUT_JS” which are in certain status and are not edited manually by the user are erased.
"GIFT_SENDOUT_JS” cycle of evaluation is re-triggered to re-create the job stream planned future instances.
The instance of “GIFT_SENDOUT_JS” that must run on the 20^th of December falls into the 24 hours activation window defined in the policy and is therefore activated.

Results

Gifts are now ready to be sent out in time and the new plan includes the 20^th of December as a gifting date for the future.