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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.
Defining applications in batch
Mass update or batch loader?
Maintaining a sequential data set

Maintaining a sequential data set

You might want to maintain a sequential data set for loading your AD and OI databases, because:

It is a backup that you can use if you lose the databases.
You can use it when you use HCL Workload Automation for Z for the first time, if you already have application descriptions in some format that you can convert.
You might find it convenient to use the ISPF editor to change the control statements.
You can easily delete and re-create your AD and OI databases, for example, if you are new user of HCL Workload Automation for Z and are developing naming standards.