How work is selected for automatic submission

This chapter describes how HCL Workload Automation for Z decides the run order of operations on computer, nonreporting, and WTO workstations.

HCL Workload Automation for Z builds the current plan from information in the long-term plan, calendar database, application description database, workstation database, and resource database. When the current plan is created, HCL Workload Automation for Z assigns start times to each operation. These start times are HCL Workload Automation for Z's estimates of when the operations should start. They are not the actual times when HCL Workload Automation for Z will start the operations, unless the operation has been designated as a time-dependent operation. Here, the start time is the time when HCL Workload Automation for Z will attempt to start the operation. (See Creating time-dependent operations.) This is because HCL Workload Automation for Z attempts to maximize throughput in your system by starting as many operations as soon as possible.