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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.
Scheduling End-to-end with z-centric Capabilities
Monitoring and recovering jobs
Job status notifications

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.
- Program Directory
- Dynamic Workload Console Readmes
  For the latest information about a Dynamic Workload Console fix pack, see the appropriate Readme File.
- Planning and Installation
- Customization and Tuning
- Managing the Workload
  You can plan when and how your workload runs and manage it as part of a plan.
- Scheduling End-to-end with z-centric Capabilities
  - About this publication
  - Configuring
  - Customizing the HTTP connections
    The communication between the HCL Workload Automation Agents and the HCL Workload Automation for Z controller is direct, through the HTTP or HTTPS protocol.
  - Defining user IDs and passwords with the USRREC statement
    Use the USRREC initialization statement to define the passwords for the users who need to schedule jobs to run on Windows™ workstations. You do not need to do this if you run native job types on non-Windows workstations.
  - Defining variables and passwords for local resolution
  - Defining and managing HCL Workload Automation Agent workstations in the database
    After defining the destinations of your HCL Workload Automation Agents, you need to define the HCL Workload Automation Agents as HCL Workload Automation for Z computer automatic workstations.
  - Defining and managing dynamic workstations
    When you add dynamic capabilities to your environment, you can schedule your workload dynamically.
  - Setting the security features
  - Defining and managing jobs
  - Administering IBM i dynamic environment
    On overview on how to administer the HCL Workload Automation IBM i dynamic environment.
  - Monitoring and recovering jobs
    - Job status notifications
    - Setting up and running automatic recovery for jobs
      HCL Workload Automation for Z supports the use of automatic recovery statements in HCL Workload Automation Agent scripts.
  - Running a script when a job completes
  - Viewing the job logs from the host
    An overview on how to view or retrieve the job logs issued in the z-centric environment and how to attach a header with job run information on top of each log.
  - Troubleshooting
    Troubleshooting agent problems
  - Configuring to schedule J2EE jobs
  - Security order of precedence used for the execution of J2EE tasks
  - Configure to schedule job types with advanced options
  - Managing return codes
  - Collecting job metrics
- Quick Reference
- Diagnosis Guide and Reference
- Workload Automation Programming Language for z/OS User's Guide and Reference
- Driving HCL Workload Automation for Z

HCL Workload Automation Agent job status notifications

Notifications about the change of status of running jobs are returned to the HTTP server subtask by the Tivoli® agent. Job status change notifications shows the possible status changes for jobs running on HCL Workload Automation Agents.

Table 1. Job status change notifications
Notification	New operation status	Explanation
Submitted (POST executed)	S	Post executed (from local HTTP client)
Submitted	S	Agent launched the job
Canceled	E (+ CAN)	Job canceled by command
Executing	S	Job started execution
Failed_Execution	E (+ error code)	Job ended in error
Succeeded_Execution	C	Job completed successfully
Failed_Submission	E (+ OSUB)	Job submission failed
Unknown_Execution	E (+ CCUN)	Agent lost track of the job