Defining workstations for end-to-end scheduling

How to create a workstation definition for end-to-end environment.

Scheduling in an end-to-end environment means that in IBM Workload Scheduler for z/OS you are scheduling and monitoring jobs that are physically running on HCL Workload Automation workstations. For the agents supported in the z/OS environment, see Supported agent workstations.

Extended agents

Extended agent workstations must be defined as fault-tolerant workstations in IBM Workload Scheduler for z/OS.

A fault-tolerant workstation is the IBM Workload Scheduler for z/OS definition of an existing HCL Workload Automation agent in the distributed network. The HCL Workload Automation agent is where the job associated with the fault-tolerant workstation actually runs in the distributed network.

To define the extended agent workstation in IBM Workload Scheduler for z/OS, you must:

1. Define the workstation in the CPUREC initialization statement. For an example, see Creating the CPUREC statement for extended agents.
2. Add the same workstation definition to the database using ISPF or the Dynamic Workload Console. For a description of how to define the workstation using the Dynamic Workload Console, see Dynamic Workload Console User's Guide. For an example, see Defining the workstation with ISPF.

IBM Workload Scheduler for z/OS agents

To define the agent workstation with z-centric capability in IBM Workload Scheduler for z/OS, add the workstation definition to the database using ISPF or the Dynamic Workload Console. For further information, see Scheduling End-to-end with z-centric Capabilities (z/OS).