Defining workstations for end-to-end scheduling

Scheduling in an end-to-end environment means that in IBM Z Workload Scheduler you are scheduling and monitoring jobs that are physically running on IBM Workload Scheduler 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 Z Workload Scheduler.

A fault-tolerant workstation is the IBM Z Workload Scheduler definition of an existing IBM Workload Scheduler agent in the distributed network. The IBM Workload Scheduler 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 Z Workload Scheduler, 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 Z Workload Scheduler agents

To define the agent workstation with z-centric capability in IBM Z Workload Scheduler, 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.