Submitting work on nonreporting workstations

The submission process is initiated when HCL Workload Automation for Z finds an operation on a ready list in A, R, or * status and all requested resources are available. Operations that have been manually set to HOLD by dialog users will not be considered candidates for submission until the operation is set to RELEASE or a dialog user requests EXECUTE.

This is how HCL Workload Automation for Z submits operations on nonreporting workstations:
  • The current plan (CP) is locked to prevent other tasks or users from updating the operations.
  • The best candidate for submission is chosen as described in Identifying the order of submission.
  • HCL Workload Automation for Z sets the operation status to complete.
  • If there are more operations eligible to start, HCL Workload Automation for Z will move on to the next best candidate. Up to 5 operations can be started.
  • The current plan lock is released.

If the JTOPTS keyword QUEUELEN is specified, HCL Workload Automation for Z starts up to the number of operations defined by QUEUELEN. For more information about the QUEUELEN parameter, see JTOPTS.