Welcome
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 10.2.4.
Administration Guide
Performance
Tracing

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 10.2.4.
- Quick Start Guide
- Planning and Installation
- User's Guide and Reference
- Administration Guide
  - Customizing and configuring IBM Workload Scheduler
  - Configuring the Dynamic Workload Console
  - Configuring user authorization (Security file)
  - Configuring authentication
  - Network administration
  - Configuring secure communications
    IBM® Workload Scheduler ensures your business operations are always secure with robust, authenticated, and encrypted connections powered by the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.
  - Data maintenance
  - Administrative tasks
  - Administering IBM i dynamic environment
    On overview on how to administer the IBM Workload Scheduler IBM i dynamic environment.
  - Performance
    - Network traffic
    - Tracing
    - Logging
    - Symphony file sizing
    - Tuning a UNIX™ domain manager to handle large numbers of fault-tolerant agents
    - Tuning job processing on a workstation
    - Tuning plan replication
    - Tuning the database
    - Too many manual job submissions
    - Too many file dependency checks
    - Network configuration availability
      After a system reboot, network services might be slow to start and if the agent starts when network services are not yet ready, the agent cannot work properly.
    - Workload spreading
    - Improving job-processing performance
    - Mailbox caching - advantages and disadvantages
    - Setting the synch level parameter
    - The fault-tolerant switch manager - impact on performance
    - Scalability
    - Multiple Dynamic Workload Console production plan reports
    - Dynamic Workload Console - adjusting session timeout settings
    - Dynamic Workload Console - Increasing application server heap size
    - Dynamic Workload Console graphical views
    - Using Google Chrome might reduce the Dynamic Workload Console performance
  - Availability
  - License Management in IBM License Metric Tool
- Scheduling with the Agent for z/OS
- Database Views
- High Availability Cluster Environment
- Troubleshooting
- Driving IBM Workload Automation
- Extending IBM Workload Automation
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. The documentation has been updated for version 10.2 SPE (Revised April 2025).
Messages and Codes
Glossary
Notices

Tracing

The performance of any workstation can be impacted by the level of tracing it has to perform.

The Troubleshooting Guide has a chapter which explains the diagnostic tools that are available.

The performance might also be impacted by the tracing activities on WebSphere Application Server Liberty.