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. The documentation has been updated for version 10.2 SPE (Revised April 2025).
Driving IBM Z Workload Scheduler
About this publication

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.
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).
- 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
- Quick Reference
- Diagnosis Guide and Reference
- Workload Automation Programming Language for z/OS User's Guide and Reference
- Driving IBM Z Workload Scheduler
  - About this publication
    - Conventions
      Conventions used in this publication.
    - How to read syntax diagrams
      Syntax diagrams help to show syntax in a graphical way.
  - Programming interfaces
  - Programming tools
  - Program interface record format
  - API object fields
  - Sample library (SEQQSAMP)
Messages and Codes
Glossary
Notices

About this publication

Developer's Guide: Driving IBM Z Workload Scheduler shows you how to use the programming interfaces to IBM Z Workload Scheduler to help you plan, schedule, and monitor work in the production department of your computer installation.

Your workload can run on various platforms, but you control it from a central z/OS® system that runs the IBM Z Workload Scheduler controller.

This guide is part of a set of guides that allows you to program many aspects of working with the products in the IBM Workload Automation family. These guides comprise:

IBM Workload Automation: Developer's Guide: Driving IBM Z Workload Scheduler
IBM Workload Automation: Developer's Guide: Extending IBM Workload Automation
Workload Automation Programming Language for Z User's Guide and Reference

Note: If you control your Z controller using Dynamic Workload Console, information about the programming interfaces you can use with the Dynamic Workload Console are available in both of the other Developer's Guides in the set.

The term scheduler, when used in this publication, refers to IBM Z Workload Scheduler. The term DB2®, when used in this publication, refers to DATABASE 2 and DB2 Universal Database™.

The term z/OS® is used in this publication to mean z/OS® and OS/390® operating systems. Where the term OS/390® appears, the related information applies only to OS/390® operating systems.