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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.
Scheduling with the Agent for z/OS
Installing and configuring
This chapter describes the tasks you need to complete to download, install, and configure the agent for z/OS software on the target z/OS system.
Complete the installation
This section describes the final steps you need to follow to complete and verify the installation of the agent.
Ensuring that all installation tasks are complete
Ensuring that all installation tasks are complete.

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
- Administration Guide
- Scheduling with the Agent for z/OS
  - Overview
    Use the agent for z/OS to schedule work from HCL Workload Automation on the JES2 or JES3 subsystem of z/OS.
  - Installing and configuring
    This chapter describes the tasks you need to complete to download, install, and configure the agent for z/OS software on the target z/OS system.
    - Load the agent for z/OS software
      The first installation step is to download the agent for z/OS software from the repository at https://hclsoftware-fno.flexnetoperations.com/flexnet/operations/
    - Run the EELINST installation aid
      EELINST is a CLIST-driven ISPF dialog that helps you setup an Agent for z/OS instance. Set EELINST up as soon as the Agent for z/OS software is installed.
    - Add SMF and JES event tracking exits
    - Updates to SYS1.PARMLIB
      The following sections describe the updates to SYS1.PARMLIB necessary for your environment.
    - Update RACF for the agent for z/OS started task
      This section describes how to define the agent for z/OS to your security system.
    - Set up the SSL environment
      This section describes how to set up SSL protection for the connection between your agent for z/OS and HCL Workload Automation.
    - Update SYS1.PROCLIB
      This section describes how to define a JCL procedure for the agent for z/OS address space.
    - Complete the installation
      This section describes the final steps you need to follow to complete and verify the installation of the agent.
      - Starting the agent and checking the connection
        The first step to verify that the installation was successful is to start the agent and check that it connects with the specified dynamic workload broker of HCL Workload Automation.
      - Ensuring that all installation tasks are complete
        Ensuring that all installation tasks are complete.
      - Checking the message log
        This section describes how to verify the message log.
      - Verifying tracking events
        This section describes how to check that the agent is collecting tracking event information and writing it to the event data set (EELEVDS).
      - Performing problem determination for tracking events
        This section describes how to run problem determination for tracking events if events are missing from the event data set.
    - Recommendations for allocating the job library data set (EELJBLIB)
    - Customization parameters
      The parameters necessary to customize the agent for z/OS are provided in the form of initialization statements. This section documents all the initialization statements required by the agent.
    - Configuring the agent for z/OS exits
      Exits EELUX000, EELUX002, and EELUX004 are called by the agent for z/OS. Your own programs can use the information passed by the exits to perform a variety of functions.
    - Running the agent in a sysplex environment
      This section documents how you can run the agent for z/OS in a z/OS® sysplex.
  - Using the agent for z/OS
  - Troubleshooting and reference
    This chapter documents potential problems and reference information.
- Database Views
- Integrating
- High Availability Cluster Environment
- Driving HCL Workload Automation
- Extending HCL Workload Automation

Ensuring that all installation tasks are complete

Ensuring that all installation tasks are complete.

Ensure that you have performed all the installation tasks that are needed for your agent for z/OS to run properly. That is, you should have:

Followed the appropriate procedures for the agent for z/OS subsystem that you are installing.
Installed the required JES and SMF exits, and verified that they are active.
Created a JCL procedure for the z/OS Agent.
Allocated required data sets.
Given the security access for the subsystem to access the data sets.
Specified the initialization statements in the parameter library (EELPARM).

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