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Create and editing workload definitions in the database.
Creating job definitions
You can create a job and use the recent activities feature from the Dynamic Workload Console.

Dynamic Workload Console User's Guide
- Getting Started
  Information about the Dynamic Workload Console installation and configuration.
- Running HCL Workload Automation from a mobile device
  Use your mobile device to easily and quickly interact with your HCL Workload Automation environment.
- Managing users and repositories
  How to configure, change, and share your settings repository and change the DB2 user. How to manage the user settings.
- Configuring High Availability
  How to configure, change, and share your settings repository.
- Customizing your console
  You can customize your console to have just the tasks that you want to access.
- HCL Workload Automation Concepts
  Conceptual information about HCL Workload Automation
- Creating and Editing Objects
  - Designing your scheduling environment
    To begin working with HCL Workload Automation you must design your scheduling environment.
  - Designing your Workload
    Create and editing workload definitions in the database.
    - Defining a Line of Business
      You can use Folders to define a line of business and then create workstations in the appropriate folder
    - Creating job stream definitions
      You can create a job stream, add a run cycle, add jobs, and define an event rule.
    - Creating job definitions
      You can create a job and use the recent activities feature from the Dynamic Workload Console.
      - Prerequisite steps to create job types with advanced options
        How to define a new job definitions using the Dynamic Workload Console.
    - Performing advanced searches
      You can perform an advanced search.
    - Creating an event rule
      How you can create an event rule.
    - Editing event rules
      Editing event rules in the HCL Workload Automation database.
  - Reusing a workload in another environment
    You can use workload application template to utilize workloads that have been used in other environments. For example, when necessary, it is possible to import a workload application template in a different environment.
  - Import Cron and Windows™ Task Scheduler
    How to import a Cron or Windows™ Task Scheduler job by using the Dynamic Workload Console.
- Managing Workload Security
  Managing security settings in your environment by using Dynamic Workload Console.
- Changing user password in the plan
  How you change the user password in the plan.
- Monitoring your environment
- Working with Plans
  The main tasks that involve plans.
- Submitting Workload on Request in Production
  How you can insert jobs or job streams into your workflow at any time.
- Keeping track of changes
  How to keep track of changes in your environment
- Reporting
- Scenarios
  Scenarios demonstrating practical application of HCL Workload Automation in a business environment.
- Reference
  Reference information to perform the main tasks and activities from the Dynamic Workload Console.
- Glossary

Creating job definitions

You can create a job and use the recent activities feature from the Dynamic Workload Console.

About this task

The purpose of the following scenario is to show how to create a job and use the recent activities feature in the context of an example.

The scope of the scenario is to create a job named “UPGRADE JAVA VERSION” to upgrade the java version on the backup server named “BK_server”. After the upgrade is complete, go to Recent activities to quickly find the job that you created and edit it to upgrade the Java version also on the primary server named “PRIMARY_server”.

Procedure

Create a job and define general information about it:
1. From the Design menu, click Workload Designer page, and then select the engine.
2. In Explore area, click Create new + and select Job.
3. Click the Executable job.
4. In General Info, in Folder, select IT_operations.
5. In General Info, in Name, type UPGRADE_JAVA_VERSION.
6. In General Info, in Workstation, select BK_server.
7. In General Info, in Description, type Java upgrade to version 11.
8. In Task, in Command text or script name, type apt install --only-upgrade openjdk-11-jre-headless -y.
Save the job.
Edit the job to upgrade the Java version on the primary server:
1. From the Design menu, click Workload Designer page, and then select the engine.
2. In Explore area, click Recent activities.
3. Click the job named UPGRADE_JAVA_VERSION and edit it.
4. In General Info, in Workstation, select PRIMARY_server.
Save the job.

Results

You created a job to upgrade the Java version on the backup server named “BK_server”. When the upgrade finished, you located the job quickly in Recent activities, and you edited it to upgrade the Java version on the primary server named “PRIMARY_server”.

Note: In addition to the job plug-ins already available from the Dynamic Workload Console, you can find new out-of-the-box integrations available on Automation Hub that extend your automation processes.