Options that apply to all operations
- TIME-DEPENDENT (default: N)
- If you specify Y, the operation becomes
time-dependent. That is, HCL Workload Automation for Z will
not start the operation until the operation input arrival time is
reached. If HCL Workload Automation for Z cannot
start the operation at the input arrival time, the operation is considered
late. This can happen if your system has been unavailable for some
period or when the operation also has predecessors that do not finish
in time. See Creating time-dependent operations.
If you specify N, the operation will not be time-dependent. HCL Workload Automation for Z will start the operation as soon as its predecessors are completed and resources are available. If there are no predecessors, and resources are available, HCL Workload Automation for Z starts the operation immediately as it is added to the current plan.
- SUPPRESS IF LATE (default: N)
- Specify Y to stop
this time-dependent operation being started if it is late. See Creating time-dependent operations for details of
what happens to late time-dependent operations.
If you specify N, HCL Workload Automation for Z ignores the fact that the operation is late and tries to start it as soon as possible.
Attention: If an operation that is used as a mandatory dependency is also suppress-if-late, it might be suppressed before the required mandatory action is taken and this could potentially cause a problem or unexpected results. There is nothing to prevent an operation from being suppress-if-late and a mandatory dependency although it might not make sense to define it in this manner. - DEADLINE WTO (default: N)
- If you specify Y for this option, HCL Workload Automation for Z issues
the operator message EQQW776I when a z/OS® operation
passes its deadline and the operation is in started status (that is,
the operation has been started but has not been marked as completed
within the deadline time). The message is routed to the operator console
of the workstation that the operation runs on. The message is also
written to the message log (EQQMLOG). The WTO is issued only for z/OS® operations that have status
S (started).
Besides the standard message, the user-defined text that you specified on the OPERATIONS panel, using the TEXT command , is issued as part of the WTO (EQQAMOPL - Operations ).
You can use this to stop a job or started task automatically at a certain time. See Scheduling the closedown of online systems and started tasks for details.
Specifying Y for an operation on a workstation that is not a z/OS® destination will have no effect. That is, a deadline WTO will not be routed to the workstation destination.
- EXTERNAL MONITOR (default: N)
- Specifies if the operation is monitored by an external product (for example, Tivoli® Business Systems Manager or Tivoli® Enterprise Portal). If you specify Y for this option, then monitoring is enabled. For more information about external monitoring, see Using Tivoli Business Service Manager and Using IBM Z Monitoring.
- COND RECOVERY JOB (default: N)
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Specify Y if you use this operation as recovery job, meaning that it might recover a conditional predecessor. For details, see Handling recovery using conditional dependencies.