Welcome to the HCL Workload Automation for Z documentation, where you can find information about how to install, maintain, and use the product.
You define the jobs to be run on HCL Workload Automation Agent workstations in a job definition member of the JOBLIB data set. In the JOBLIB member, you can either define the job contents or invoke a script or an executable that is stored locally on the HCL Workload Automation Agent workstation.
For the latest information about a Dynamic Workload Console fix pack, see the appropriate Readme File.
You can plan when and how your workload runs and manage it as part of a plan.
The communication between the HCL Workload Automation Agents and the HCL Workload Automation for Z controller is direct, through the HTTP or HTTPS protocol.
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.
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.
When you add dynamic capabilities to your environment, you can schedule your workload dynamically.
How to define a new job definition using the Dynamic Workload Console.
The variable substitution mechanism that is used in HCL Workload Automation for Z native job types works the same way when scheduling jobs on HCL Workload Automation Agents. The variable substitution mechanism changes when you define job types with advanced options, such as Java™ jobs that run a Java class, or file transfer jobs that transfer files to and from a server, to name a few. These types of jobs are created and edited using the Dynamic Workload Console.
An overview of the mechanism that is behind the promotion of critical jobs, or of their predecessors, running on HCL Workload Automation Agents, including pools and dynamic pools.
On overview on how to administer the HCL Workload Automation IBM i dynamic environment.
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 agent problems
This section describes the native job type.