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.
Scheduling End-to-end with z-centric Capabilities
Defining and managing jobs
Defining a job in the JOBLIB data set
You define the jobs to be run on IBM Z Workload Scheduler Agent workstations in a job definition member of the JOBLIB data set. In the JOBLIB member, you can either define the job contents or invoke a script or an executable that is stored locally on the IBM Z Workload Scheduler Agent workstation.
Syntax diagram for database job types

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.
- Scheduling End-to-end with z-centric Capabilities
  - About this publication
  - Configuring
  - Customizing the HTTP connections
    The communication between the IBM Z Workload Scheduler Agents and the IBM Z Workload Scheduler controller is direct, through the HTTP or HTTPS protocol.
  - Defining user IDs and passwords with the USRREC statement
    Use the USRREC initialization statement to define the passwords for the users who need to schedule jobs to run on Windows™ workstations. You do not need to do this if you run native job types on non-Windows workstations.
  - Defining variables and passwords for local resolution
  - Defining and managing IBM Z Workload Scheduler Agent workstations in the database
    After defining the destinations of your IBM Z Workload Scheduler Agents, you need to define the IBM Z Workload Scheduler Agents as IBM Z Workload Scheduler computer automatic workstations.
  - Defining and managing dynamic workstations
    When you add dynamic capabilities to your environment, you can schedule your workload dynamically.
  - Setting the security features
  - Defining and managing jobs
    - Defining jobs from the Dynamic Workload Console
      How to define a new job definition using the Dynamic Workload Console.
    - Defining a job in the JOBLIB data set
      You define the jobs to be run on IBM Z Workload Scheduler Agent workstations in a job definition member of the JOBLIB data set. In the JOBLIB member, you can either define the job contents or invoke a script or an executable that is stored locally on the IBM Z Workload Scheduler Agent workstation.
    - Using variable substitution
      The variable substitution mechanism that is used in IBM Z Workload Scheduler native job types works the same way when scheduling jobs on IBM Z Workload Scheduler Agents. The variable substitution mechanism changes when you define job types with advanced options, such as Java™ jobs that run a Java class, or file transfer jobs that transfer files to and from a server, to name a few. These types of jobs are created and edited using the Dynamic Workload Console.
    - Defining file dependencies to check for file changes
    - Checking for file changes with filemonitor
    - Promoting critical jobs
      An overview of the mechanism that is behind the promotion of critical jobs, or of their predecessors, running on IBM Z Workload Scheduler Agents, including pools and dynamic pools.
    - Killing operations
  - Administering IBM i dynamic environment
    On overview on how to administer the IBM Workload Scheduler IBM i dynamic environment.
  - Monitoring and recovering jobs
  - Running a script when a job completes
  - Viewing the job logs from the host
    An overview on how to view or retrieve the job logs issued in the z-centric environment and how to attach a header with job run information on top of each log.
  - Troubleshooting
    Troubleshooting agent problems
  - Configure to schedule job types with advanced options
  - Managing return codes
  - Modifying the workstation from fault-tolerant agent to z-centric agent
  - Defining access methods for agents
  - Collecting job metrics
- 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

Syntax diagram for database job types

The database job type:

If you set JOBTYPE to (/database), you can choose among the following database types:

DB2®
Oracle
MSSQL

The syntax for DB2® and Oracle is identical, but the syntax for MSSQL supports MSSQL-specific operations. For details, see Syntax diagram for DB2 and Oracle database job types and Syntax diagram for MSSQL database job type.