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HCL Workload Automation
Welcome to the HCL Workload Automation documentation, where you can find information about how to install, maintain, and use HCL Workload Automation. The documentation has been updated for HCL Workload Automation Version 9.5 Fix Pack 6.
User's Guide and Reference
Managing the production cycle
Planman command line
Retrieving the production plan information

HCL Workload Automation
Welcome to the HCL Workload Automation documentation, where you can find information about how to install, maintain, and use HCL Workload Automation. The documentation has been updated for HCL Workload Automation Version 9.5 Fix Pack 6.
- Fix Pack readmes
  For the latest information about a Fix Pack, see the appropriate Readme File.
- Planning and Installation
- User's Guide and Reference
  - HCL Workload Automation
  - Understanding basic processes and commands
  - Configuring the job environment
  - Managing the production cycle
  - Using workload service assurance
    Workload service assurance is an optional feature that provides the means to flag jobs as mission critical for your business and to ensure that they are processed in a timely manner. Using this function benefits your scheduling operations personnel by enhancing their ability to meet defined service levels.
  - Customizing your workload using variable tables
    This chapter introduces the concept of variable tables to group global parameters, from now on called variables, to customize your workload.
  - Condition-based workload automation
  - Running event-driven workload automation
  - Defining objects in the database
  - Managing objects in the database - composer
  - Managing workload applications
    Workload applications can be created and then exported so that they can be shared with other HCL Workload Automation environments. In the new environment, the workload application can be subsequently updated, replaced, or deleted.
  - Managing objects in the plan - conman
  - Monitoring with Prometheus
    Access metrics that provide insight into the state, health, and performance of your workload environment and infrastructure.
  - Predicting job duration
  - Extending HCL Workload Automation capabilities
    You can extend HCL Workload Automation capabilities by integrating with IBM and third-party products, such as IBM Sterling Connect:Direct or MS SQL. This integration allows you to easily start HCL Workload Automation jobs on external products, while using HCL Workload Automation scheduling capabilities. HCL Workload Automation also provides jobs that perform everyday operations, such as file transfer and web services, and utility jobs that automate and simplify operations such as the centralized agent update.
  - Managing dynamic scheduling
    This section explains how you can manage dynamic scheduling capabilities in your environment to schedule both existing HCL Workload Automation jobs and job types with advanced options, both those supplied with the product and the additional types implemented through the custom plug-ins.
  - Using utility commands
  - Using utility commands in the dynamic environment
  - Getting reports and statistics
  - Managing time zones
  - Defining access methods for agents
  - Managing internetwork dependencies
  - Applying conditional branching logic
    With HCL Workload Automation you can define jobs to run when and as often as necessary. Sometimes some jobs might have to wait for other jobs to finish successfully before they start. Add even more flexibility to your job flows by choosing which job to run depending on the result of the job status or output of a previous job. Whenever you have conditions that specify whether or not a segment of your job flow should run, then that is a conditional dependency.
  - Defining and managing cross dependencies
  - Managing an IBM i dynamic environment
  - Event-driven workload automation event and action definitions
  - Job Submission Description Language schema reference
    This reference section specifies the semantics and structure of the Job Submission Description Language (JSDL) that apply specifically for use with dynamic workload broker. The JSDL schema is used to describe the job requirements for submission to resources. dynamic workload broker analyzes the IT environment and assigns the best available resource to run the job, based on the requirements you specify.
  - Quick reference for commands
  - Accessibility
- Administration Guide
- Scheduling with the Agent for z/OS
- Database Views
- Integrating
- High Availability Cluster Environment
- Driving HCL Workload Automation
- Extending HCL Workload Automation

Retrieving the production plan information

The following syntax is used to show information about the current production plan:

planman [connection_parameters] showinfo

where:

connection_parameters: Defines the settings to use when establishing the connection using HTTP or HTTPS through WebSphere Application Server Liberty Base to the master domain manager. For more information refer to Planman command line.

Note: You can install the HCL Workload Automation Command Line Client feature on fault-tolerant agents and systems outside the HCL Workload Automation network to issue from those systems the planman showinfo command.

The output of this command shows:

The installation path.
The start time of the production plan.
The end time of the production plan.
The duration of the production plan, after the last plan extension, if extended.
The date and time of the last plan update, done either using JnextPlan or planman.
The end time of the preproduction plan.
The start time of the first not completed job stream instance.
The run number, that is the total number of times the plan was generated.
The confirm run number, that is the number of times the plan was successfully generated.

The start and end times of the production and preproduction plans are displayed using the format specified in the date format variable set in the localopts file and the time zone of the local machine.

A sample output of this command is the following:

# planman showinfoHCL Workload Automation (UNIX)/PLANMAN 8.6 (20100715)
Licensed Materials - Property of IBM*
5698-WSH
(C) Copyright IBM Corp. 1998, 2016 All rights reserved.
(C) Copyright HCL Technologies Ltd. 2016, 2022 All rights reserved.
* Trademark of International Business Machines
Installed for user "aix61usr".
Locale LANG set to the following: "en"
Plan creation start time: 07/21/2021 06:00 TZ Europe/Rome
Production plan start time of last extension: 07/21/2021 06:00 TZ Europe/Rome
Production plan end time: 07/22/2021 05:59 TZ Europe/Rome
Production plan time extension: 024:00
Plan last update: 07/21/2021 10:05 TZ Europe/Rome
Preproduction plan end time: 08/05/2021 06:00 TZ Europe/Rome
Start time of first not complete preproduction plan job stream instance: 
   07/21/2021 10:30 TZ Europe/Rome
Run number: 1
Confirm run number: 1

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