Parts and their relationships

HCL Workload Automation for Z consists of a base product, the agent, and a number of features. You need the base product to track your workload. Hereafter, you see the agent referred to as the tracker and the engine referred to as the controller. One z/OS system in your complex is designated the controlling system and runs the controller feature. Only one controller feature is required, even when you want to start standby controllers on other z/OS systems in a sysplex.

You can also control the workload in other operating environments (UNIX, Windows, IBM i) using the end-to-end scheduling functions provided in HCL Workload Automation for Z and in HCL Workload Automation.

The rest of this section describes the tracker and controller, their relationship, and how you can configure them.