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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
Defining variables and passwords for local resolution

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
    - Creating and managing variables and passwords on the agents
      Use the param command to define and manage user passwords and variables locally on the HCL Workload Automation for Z agents. The values are resolved at submission time on the agent where the job is submitted.
    - Specifying variables and passwords in the JOBREC statement
      After defining a variable and its value with the param command, to add it within a job definition with the JOBREC statement, use the following format. The values are resolved at submission time on the agent where the job is submitted.
    - Specifying local variables and passwords in job types with advanced options
  - 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
  - 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

Defining variables and passwords for local resolution

You can set variables and passwords to be defined and resolved locally on the HCL Workload Automation for Z agents.

This is particularly useful in the case of passwords because you are not required to specify them in the job definition. The advantage is that, if the password has to change, you do not modify the job definition, but you change it with the param command locally on the agents (or on the pool agents) that run or may run the job.

This feature is not restricted to Windows workstations alone. You can use it also on UNIX, as long as you apply it on job types with advanced options.

See the following sections for:

Creating and managing variables and passwords on the agents.
Specifying variables and passwords in the JOBREC statement in the JOBLIB data set.
Specifying local variables and passwords in job types with advanced options to define your job in the Dynamic Workload Console so that the variables or passwords are resolved locally on the agents at run time.