Integrating with the scheduling environment

The objective is to facilitate the association of WLM scheduling environments with HCL Workload Automation for Z jobs.

The main benefits are:
  • JCLs no longer have to be manually tailored to associate a scheduling environment with a job or to modify an existing association. In fact:
    • The association can be made within the definition of the operation (through the ISPF panel or the PIF).
    • Global changes for groups of jobs can be made with Mass Update.
  • Jobs can be monitored for problems related to the WLM scheduling environment.
    • The new Waiting for Scheduling Environment extended status for operations enables a user to track scheduling environment problems via ISPF.
    • The possibility to filter operations by their scheduling environment name enables a user to identify all operations blocked by a specific scheduling environment.
  • The retry mechanism is based on the detection of scheduling environment availability. As soon as the associated scheduling environment becomes available, an event is sent to the controller to retry the operations waiting for it.
  • The integration is supported across the entire Sysplex.
    • The availability of the scheduling environments is checked for at the tracker level, where WLM macros are used with sysplex-wide scope.
    • The possibility to define a scheduling environment at the job level preserves the administrator from the need to define scheduling environments by sysplex. For example, scheduling environment SE1 can be defined both in Sysplex A and Sysplex B, but they are two separate objects with different status.