Defining jobs based on the agent type

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How to create a job definition for supported agents using the Dynamic Workload Console.

Steps for defining a job for supported agents.

Fault-tolerant agents
To define jobs, follow these steps:
  1. From the navigation toolbar, click Administration>Workload Design>Manage Workload Definitions.
  2. Specify an engine name, either distributed or z/OS. The Workload Designer opens. Job types and characteristics vary depending on whether you select a distributed or a z/OS engine.
  3. In the Working List pane, select
    • New > Job Definition
    • New
  4. Select the category and type of job you want to create.
    • For HCL Workload Automation native jobs, click
      • Native > Windows, UNIX or Other.
      • z/OS job. See Scheduling with the Agent for z/OS.
  5. In the properties panel, specify the attributes for the job definition you are creating. For all the details about available fields and options, see the online help by clicking the "?" in the top-right corner.
  6. Click Save to save the job definition in the database.
Limited fault-tolerant agent
To define jobs, follow these steps:
  1. From the navigation toolbar, click Administration>Workload Design>Manage Workload Definitions.
  2. Specify an engine name, either distributed or z/OS. The Workload Designer opens. Job types and characteristics vary depending on whether you select a distributed or a z/OS engine.
  3. In the Working List pane, select
    • New > Job Definition
    • New
  4. Select the category and type of job you want to create.
    • For HCL Workload Automation native jobs, click
      • Native > Other. See Limited Fault-tolerant Agent for IBMi.
  5. In the properties panel, specify the attributes for the job definition you are creating. For all the details about available fields and options, see the online help by clicking the "?" in the top-right corner.
  6. Click Save to save the job definition in the database.
Agent for z/OS
To define jobs, follow these steps:
  1. From the navigation toolbar, click Administration>Workload Design>Manage Workload Definitions.
  2. Specify an engine name, either distributed or z/OS. The Workload Designer opens. Job types and characteristics vary depending on whether you select a distributed or a z/OS engine.
  3. In the Working List pane, select
    • New > Job Definition
    • New
  4. Select the category and type of job you want to create.
    • For HCL Workload Automation native jobs, click
      • Native > z/OS. See Scheduling with the Agent for z/OS.
  5. In the properties panel, specify the attributes for the job definition you are creating. For all the details about available fields and options, see the online help by clicking the "?" in the top-right corner.
  6. Click Save to save the job definition in the database.
Remote engines
To define shadow jobs, follow these steps:
  1. From the navigation toolbar, click Administration>Workload Design>Manage Workload Definitions.
  2. Specify an engine name, either distributed or z/OS. The Workload Designer opens. Job types and characteristics vary depending on whether you select a distributed or a z/OS engine.
  3. In the Working List pane, select
    • For HCL Workload Automation native jobs,
      • New > Job Definition.
      • New.
  4. Select the category and type of job you want to create.
  5. In the properties panel, specify the attributes for the job definition you are creating. For all the details about available fields and options, see the online help by clicking the "?" in the top-right corner.
  6. Click Save to save the job definition in the database.
Extended agents
To define jobs, follow these steps:
  1. From the navigation toolbar, click Administration>Workload Design>Manage Workload Definitions.
  2. Specify an engine name, either distributed or z/OS. The Workload Designer opens. Job types and characteristics vary depending on whether you select a distributed or a z/OS engine.
  3. In the Working List pane, select New > Job Definition.
  4. Select the category and type of job you want to create.
    • For SAP jobs, ERP > SAP Job on XA Workstations. See Scheduling Applications with HCL Workload Automation, section about Creating SAP Standard R/3 jobs from the Dynamic Workload Console.
    • For MVS, ERP > Access method
    • For PeopleSoft, ERP > Access method.
    • For z/OS, Native > z/OS.
  5. In the properties panel, specify the attributes for the job definition you are creating. For all the details about available fields and options, see the online help by clicking the "?" in the top-right corner.
  6. Click Save to save the job definition in the database.
Dynamic agent and IBM® Workload Scheduler for z/OS® agents

The steps described here for defining a job are common to all access methods.

Follow these steps:
  1. From the navigation toolbar, click Administration > Workload Design > Manage Workload Definitions.
  2. Specify an engine name, either distributed or z/OS. The Workload Designer opens. Job types and characteristics vary depending on whether you select a distributed or a z/OS engine.
  3. In the Working List pane, select
    • New > Job Definition
    • New
  4. Select the category and type of job you want to create.
  5. In the properties panel, specify the attributes for the job definition you are creating. For all the details about available fields and options, see the online help by clicking the "?" in the top-right corner.
  6. Click Save to save the job definition in the database.
Note: The access method for SAP R/3 provides supplementary features if you use the alternative steps described in Scheduling Applications with HCL Workload Automation, section about Create an SAP job and associate it to a HCL Workload Automation job or Creating SAP Standard R/3 jobs from the Dynamic Workload Console. You can create native SAP R/3 Standard jobs on a remoteSAP system directly from the Dynamic Workload Console.
Parent topic: Creating job definitions