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HCL Workload Automation for Z
Welcome to the HCL Workload Automation for Z documentation, where you can find information about how to install, maintain, and use the product.
Managing the Workload
You can plan when and how your workload runs and manage it as part of a plan.
Planning and scheduling
Learn how to organize your workload while it runs, and the dependencies among its parts.
Creating applications and groups
Associating job statements with operations
JCL and job setup operations

JCL and job setup operations

When manual tailoring of job statements is necessary, specify a setup operation to precede a job or started task operation. By using a setup operation you can ensure that jobs and started tasks are not submitted until the job statements have been suitably tailored.

A setup operation is an operation that is specified on a general workstation that has the JCL setup attribute. The setup operation is associated with the subsequent submission operation by two factors:

The job name of the setup operation is the same as the job name of the submission operation.
The setup operation is an immediate predecessor of the submission operation. This does not mean that the setup operation must immediately precede the submission operation in operation number order.

The setup operation should not itself have predecessors, because it is started manually and is therefore under control of the operator.