Welcome
IBM® Z Workload Scheduler
Welcome to the IBM® Z Workload Scheduler documentation, where you can find information about how to install, maintain, and use the product.
Managing the Workload
You can plan when and how your workload runs and manage it as part of a plan.
Controlling and monitoring
Learn how to manage the workload when it becomes part of a plan and is run with real dates and times.
Using Tivoli Business Service Manager
Using Tivoli Business Service Manager to monitor operations in the plan
How monitoring works

Product requirements
This section contains links to the IBM® Workload Scheduler Download Documents, System Requirements, and Release Notes.
Product Library in PDF format
This section contains links to the PDF versions of all the publications provided in IBM Documentation for IBM Workload Automation.
Considerations for GDPR readiness
Overview
Mobile Applications Userʼs Guide
Dynamic Workload Console User's Guide
AI Data Advisor (AIDA) User's Guide
Scheduling Job Integrations with IBM Workload Automation
IBM® Workload Scheduler
Welcome to the IBM® Workload Scheduler documentation, where you can find information about how to install, maintain, and use IBM Workload Scheduler. The documentation has been updated for IBM Workload Scheduler Version 10.2.3.
IBM® Z Workload Scheduler
Welcome to the IBM® Z Workload Scheduler documentation, where you can find information about how to install, maintain, and use the product.
- Memo to Users
- Program Directory
- Dynamic Workload Console Readmes
  For the latest information about a Dynamic Workload Console fix pack, see the appropriate Readme File.
- Planning and Installation
- Customization and Tuning
- Managing the Workload
  You can plan when and how your workload runs and manage it as part of a plan.
  - About this publication
  - Planning and scheduling
    Learn how to organize your workload while it runs, and the dependencies among its parts.
  - Controlling and monitoring
    Learn how to manage the workload when it becomes part of a plan and is run with real dates and times.
    - Monitoring the workload
    - Updating the current plan
    - Handling operations that end in error
    - Monitoring special resources
    - Browsing a job log with IBM Tivoli® Output Manager
    - Using Tivoli Business Service Manager
      - Using Tivoli Business Service Manager to monitor operations in the plan
        Enabling monitoring by Tivoli Business Service Manager
        Scheduler start options
        Identifying jobs for monitoring
        Setting monitors from the ISPF panels
        Setting monitors from the programming interface
        How monitoring works
        Discovery of the IBM® Z Workload Scheduler objects
    - Using IBM® Z® Monitoring
    - Reporting with IBM Z Workload Scheduler
    - Sending an email when an alert condition occurs
    - Opening incidents through ServiceNow
      To have the Z controller open incidents through ServiceNow© and manage issues through a ticketing systems, you can use the Servicenow plug-in (available for z-centric agents on Automation Hub) or integrate IBM® Z Workload Scheduler with ServiceNow, as described in the following procedure.
    - Posting incidents and sharing information through a chat tool
    - Integrating with IBM Z JCL Expert
    - Using Tivoli Business Service Manager to monitor objects in the database
  - TSO commands
  - Batch programs
  - Report examples
  - Supported z/OS Commands
  - Status, error, and reason codes
  - Fields displayed in ready and error lists
  - Defining event rules and invoking EQQLSENT macro
  - IBM Z Workload Scheduler ISPF variables allowed in the EQQAJCLE panel
- Scheduling End-to-end with z-centric Capabilities
- Quick Reference
- Diagnosis Guide and Reference
- Workload Automation Programming Language for z/OS User's Guide and Reference
- Driving IBM Z Workload Scheduler
Messages and Codes
Glossary
Notices

How monitoring works

To monitor IBM® Z Workload Scheduler, Tivoli Business Service Manager scans the daily planning report in IBM® Z Workload Scheduler and discovers all batch objects in the scheduler plan. Events to signal job status changes and alert conditions are sent to Tivoli Business Service Manager only for jobs that have the EXTERNAL MONITOR job option set to YES.

Tivoli Business Service Manager receives the following events from IBM® Z Workload Scheduler for monitored jobs:

Addition of an operation
Operation in late
Operation waiting for resource
Start of an operation
Long duration for an operation
End of an operation

IBM® Z Workload Scheduler also sends to Tivoli Business Service Manager an event for the following alert conditions:

Alert durations (monitored jobs only)
Alerts for late operations (monitored jobs only)
Alerts for operations that ended in error (all jobs)
Alerts for the time out of a special resource (monitored jobs only)
Alerts for IBM® Z Workload Scheduler subtasks or subsystems that ended in error
Alerts for IBM® Z Workload Scheduler subtask queues that exceed the threshold value

Tivoli Business Service Manager is notified for all job error situations, such as job abended. When a non-monitored job abends, the EXTERNAL MONITOR job option is automatically set to YES, and Tivoli Business Service Manager begins to monitor it.