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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 objects in the plan - conman
Setting up the conman command-line program
Setting up the conman environment
Terminal output

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

Terminal output

The output to your computer is determined by the shell variables defined in the tws_env script, which you run before running command line commands. If any of the following variables is not set, the standard shell variables, LINES and COLUMNS, are used. The variables can be set as follows:

MAESTROLINES

Specifies the number of lines per screen. The default is -1. At the end of each screen page, conman does not pause at the end of a page. If MAESTROLINES (or LINES) is set to a positive number, conman prompts to continue.

Use of MAESTROLINES is recommended since the LINES variable is a shell operating system variable and in most operating systems it is automatically reset by the operating system itself.

MAESTROCOLUMNS

Specifies the number of characters per line. The following options are available:

Less than 120
Equal to or more than 120

MAESTRO_OUTPUT_STYLE

Specifies how object names are displayed. If set to LONG, full names are displayed. If set to any value other than LONG, long names are truncated to eight characters followed by a plus sign (+).

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