Installing the IBM Workload Scheduler end

Before you begin the installation, review the Interoperability tables shown in the IBM Z Workload Scheduler: Memo to Users document, to ensure that your proposed environment is possible.

When you install the agents of an end-to-end with fault tolerance capabilities network, you should consider the following:
  • The name of each agent can have a maximum of four characters, must start with a letter, and all letters must be uppercase.
  • The master domain manager is the IBM Z Workload Scheduler controller and is named OPCMASTER.
  • The master domain is predefined and is named MASTERDM.
Apart from this, installation is not different from that of the agents of a distributed IBM Workload Scheduler network. However, similarly to installing a distributed IBM Workload Scheduler network, installing large end-to-end with fault tolerance capabilities networks requires some planning of network topology and agent naming conventions.

When you decide to install an end-to-end with fault tolerance capabilities network, it is likely that you either have to install the agents from scratch or that you want to use agents from an already existing IBM Workload Scheduler network.

In the latter case, you want to install an additional instance of IBM Workload Scheduler on computers where the agent is already running just to keep the end-to-end and the distributed environments separate. While you install an additional IBM Workload Scheduler instance, be sure to specify for the following parameters different values from the ones belonging to the existing instance:
  • The IBM Workload Scheduler home directory
  • The IBM Workload Scheduler user
  • The netman port number