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.
This section contains links to the IBM® Workload Scheduler Download Documents, System Requirements, and Release Notes.
This section contains links to the PDF versions of all the publications provided in IBM Documentation for IBM Workload Automation.
Workload service assurance is an optional feature that provides the means to flag jobs as mission critical for your business and to ensure that they are processed in a timely manner. Using this function benefits your scheduling operations personnel by enhancing their ability to meet defined service levels.
This chapter introduces the concept of variable tables to group global parameters, from now on called variables, to customize your workload.
Workload applications can be created and then exported so that they can be shared with other IBM Workload Scheduler environments. In the new environment, the workload application can be subsequently updated, replaced, or deleted.
You can use the essential Orchestration Query Language (OQL) keywords and syntax to effectively write queries.
The command line interface to run jobs or job streams and to interact with IBM® Workload Scheduler.
You can temporarily modify the parameters in the default config.yaml file when you run a plan, model or plug-in command. This feature permits you to customize the behavior of a specific command without modifying the entire config.yaml file.
Using internal and third-party tools to monitor IBM® Workload Scheduler
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.
This section explains how you can manage dynamic scheduling capabilities in your environment to schedule both existing IBM Workload Scheduler jobs and job types with advanced options, both those supplied with the product and the additional types implemented through the custom plug-ins.
With IBM® Workload Scheduler you can define jobs to run when and as often as necessary. Sometimes some jobs might have to wait for other jobs to finish successfully before they start. Add even more flexibility to your job flows by choosing which job to run depending on the result of the job status or output of a previous job. Whenever you have conditions that specify whether or not a segment of your job flow should run, then that is a conditional dependency.
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).
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