Installation paths

This section describes the default installation paths of the Dynamic Workload Console.

DWC_DATA_dir configuration directory

To simplify administration, configuration, and backup and recovery on UNIX systems, a new default behavior has been implemented with regard to the storage of product data and data generated by IBM® Workload Scheduler, such as logs and configuration information. These files are now stored by default in the <data_dir> directory, which you can optionally customize at installation time.

By default, this directory is DWC_home/DWC_DATA for the Dynamic Workload Console. The product binaries are stored instead, in the installation directory.

You can optionally customize the <data_dir> directory at installation time by setting the --data_dir argument when you install using the command-line installation. If you want to maintain the previous behavior, you can set the --data_dir argument to the IBM® Workload Scheduler installation directory.

If you deploy the product components using Docker containers, the <data_dir> is set to the default directory name and location, and it cannot be modified.

To retrieve the DWC_DATA_dir location in case you have modified the default path, check the values for the DWC_datadir properties stored in the twainstance<instance_number>.TWA.properties file. The file is located in /etc/TWA.

DWC_home installation directory
The Dynamic Workload Console can be installed in the path of your choice, but the default installation directory is as follows:
On Windows™ operating systems
%ProgramFiles%\wa\DWC
On UNIX™ operating systems
/opt/wa/DWC
On z/OS operating system
/opt/wa/DWC