Functional comparison with IBM Z Workload Scheduler tracker agents

lists the functional enhancements that derive from replacing the tracker agents with fault-tolerant workstations:

• The distributed agents can be fault-tolerant. Fault-tolerance is defined as the capability to run the assigned workload despite a loss of connection from its domain manager. After a fault-tolerant workstation has received its daily Symphony, it can carry on with running its part of the plan even if it is disconnected from its domain manager (and provided it remains linked to other workstations with which it shares dependencies).
• Fault-tolerant workstations can host extended agent definitions. Using extended agents, you can schedule workload on other products and subsystems such as R/3, PeopleSoft, Oracle, CA7, and JES from the end-to-end with fault tolerance capabilities environment.
• Fault-tolerant workstations can perform job recovery actions in an autonomous way even when disconnected.
• You can:
  • Connect multiple domain managers to the IBM Z Workload Scheduler controller, also taking advantage of the multi-tier domain structure of IBM Workload Scheduler. This allows greater flexibility and scalability.
  • Enable firewall support and SSL authentication.
  • Browse the scheduling activity at the engine, domain, or agent level.
  • Match user names and job runs.
  • Use the return code mapping function to specify a success condition for each job that determines whether a job is considered successful or abended.
  • Make an application or an operation dependent upon the existence of one or more files before it can begin running. Use the filewatch utility, as described in Defining file dependencies to check for file changes.