Defining workstations for end-to-end scheduling

Scheduling in an end-to-end environment means that in HCL Workload Automation for Z you are scheduling and monitoring jobs that are physically running on HCL Workload Automation workstations. For the agents supported in the z/OS environment, see Supported agent workstations.

Extended agents

Extended agent workstations must be defined as fault-tolerant workstations in HCL Workload Automation for Z.

A fault-tolerant workstation is the HCL Workload Automation for Z definition of an existing HCL Workload Automation agent in the distributed network. The HCL Workload Automation agent is where the job associated with the fault-tolerant workstation actually runs in the distributed network.

To define the extended agent workstation in HCL Workload Automation for Z, you must:

1. Define the workstation in the CPUREC initialization statement. For an example, see Creating the CPUREC statement for extended agents.
2. Add the same workstation definition to the database using ISPF or the Dynamic Workload Console. For a description of how to define the workstation using the Dynamic Workload Console, see Dynamic Workload Console User's Guide. For an example, see Defining the workstation with ISPF.

HCL Workload Automation agents

To define the agent workstation with z-centric capability in HCL Workload Automation for Z, add the workstation definition to the database using ISPF or the Dynamic Workload Console. For further information, see Scheduling End-to-end with z-centric Capabilities.