HCL Workload Automation for Z
Welcome to the HCL Workload Automation for Z documentation, where you can find information about how to install, maintain, and use the product.
- Program Directory
- Dynamic Workload Console Readmes
  For the latest information about a Dynamic Workload Console fix pack, see the appropriate Readme File.
- Planning and Installation
- Customization and Tuning
- Managing the Workload
  You can plan when and how your workload runs and manage it as part of a plan.
- Scheduling End-to-end with z-centric Capabilities
  - About this publication
  - Configuring
  - Customizing the HTTP connections
    The communication between the HCL Workload Automation Agents and the HCL Workload Automation for Z controller is direct, through the HTTP or HTTPS protocol.
  - Defining user IDs and passwords with the USRREC statement
    Use the USRREC initialization statement to define the passwords for the users who need to schedule jobs to run on Windows™ workstations. You do not need to do this if you run native job types on non-Windows workstations.
  - Defining variables and passwords for local resolution
  - Defining and managing HCL Workload Automation Agent workstations in the database
    After defining the destinations of your HCL Workload Automation Agents, you need to define the HCL Workload Automation Agents as HCL Workload Automation for Z computer automatic workstations.
  - Defining and managing dynamic workstations
    When you add dynamic capabilities to your environment, you can schedule your workload dynamically.
  - Setting the security features
    - Setting SSL-secure connections for communication using the default certificates
      - Using security certificates
    - Customizing the SSL connection between the agents and the Z controller when using your certificates
      Customizing the SSL connection between the agents and the Z controller connected to it when using your certificates.
    - Encrypting the user password
  - Defining and managing jobs
  - Administering IBM i dynamic environment
    On overview on how to administer the HCL Workload Automation IBM i dynamic environment.
  - Monitoring and recovering jobs
  - Running a script when a job completes
  - Viewing the job logs from the host
    An overview on how to view or retrieve the job logs issued in the z-centric environment and how to attach a header with job run information on top of each log.
  - Troubleshooting
    Troubleshooting agent problems
  - Configuring to schedule J2EE jobs
  - Security order of precedence used for the execution of J2EE tasks
  - Configure to schedule job types with advanced options
  - Managing return codes
  - Collecting job metrics
- Quick Reference
- Diagnosis Guide and Reference
- Workload Automation Programming Language for z/OS User's Guide and Reference
- Driving HCL Workload Automation for Z

Using security certificates

At installation time, the default security certificates are automatically stored in the SEQQDATA library:

EQQCERCL: The security certificate for the client.
EQQCERSR: The security certificate for the server.

You can decide to use these default certificates or create your own. However, in a production environment, it is recommended that you customize SSL communication with your own certificates.

In both cases, you need to import them into your security system. If you are using RACF®, you are provided with the EQQRCERT sample job that you can run to import the certificates. To run this job, ensure that you use the same user ID that RACF® associates with the controller started task.

The EQQRCERT job:

Copies the EQQCERCL certificate to a temporary sequential data set
Copies the EQQCERSR certificate to a temporary sequential data set
Imports EQQCERCL to RACF®
Imports EQQCERSR to RACF®
Deletes the temporary sequential data sets
Creates the SAF key ring that is used to connect the imported certificates
Updates the RACF® database with the new certificates and key ring

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