Extending IBM Workload Scheduler capabilities
You can extend IBM Workload Scheduler capabilities by integrating with third-party products. This integration allows you to easily start IBM Workload Scheduler jobs on external products, while using IBM Workload Scheduler scheduling capabilities. IBM Workload Scheduler also provides jobs that perform everyday operations, such as file transfer and web services, and utility jobs that automate and simplify operations, such as the job stream submission.
The integration consists of a number of job types with advanced options available with the Dynamic Workload Console and with the composer command.
You can also create custom plug-ins to implement your own job types with advanced options for applications that are not supported by IBM Workload Scheduler. Before you create a new plug-in, check if the plug-in that you are looking for already exists on Automation Hub. If you do not find what you need, you can access the Workload Automation, Lutist Development Kit through the Automation Hub.
Standard IBM Workload Scheduler jobs are generic executable files, programs, or commands. You can define jobs to perform specific tasks, such as performing file transfers, and running commands on remote systems where no IBM Workload Scheduler component is installed, using the job types with advanced options. You can easily define these jobs without having specific skills on the applications on which the job runs.
For more information about defining standard IBM Workload Scheduler jobs, see Job definition.
Once job definitions have been submitted into the production plan, you still have the opportunity to make one-off changes to the definitions before they run, or after they have run. You can update the definition of a job that has already run and then rerun it. The job definition in the database remains unchanged.
In addition to these job plug-ins, you can find new integrations on Automation Hub that extend your automation processes. New integrations are constantly added to Automation Hub, so make sure to visit it for an up-to-date list of all available integrations.
You can run job types with advanced options only on workstations with dynamic capabilities that is dynamic agents, pools, and dynamic pools. These workstation types use the dynamic functions built into IBM Workload Scheduler and provide the possibility at run time to dynamically associate your submitted workload (or part of it) to the best available resources. For more information about dynamic scheduling, see Managing dynamic scheduling capabilities in your environment.