Modifying the workstation from fault-tolerant agent to z-centric agent

About this task

The fault-tolerant agent workstations are no longer supported and must be modify to IBM Z Workload Scheduler Agent (z-centric) workstations, as described in the following procedure.
Note:
  • For jobs whose JOBREC includes an RCCONDSUC parameter, see Managing return codes for information about how to perform return code management for jobs scheduled on an IBM Z Workload Scheduler Agent.
  • To modify a fault-tolerant agent workstation that uses non-centralized job scripts to an IBM Z Workload Scheduler Agent workstation, you can follow the same procedure. Additionally, you must convert the information contained in the EQQSCLIB data set into information for the JOBLIB data set, by using the appropriate JOBREC statement keywords.
On the Z controller:
  1. Define the IBM Z Workload Scheduler Agent destination by setting the ROUTOPTS statement. For details, refer to Defining destinations with the ROUTOPTS statement.
  2. Optionally, customize the HTTP connection with the HTTPOPTS statement. For details, refer to Customizing the HTTP connection with the HTTPOPTS statement.
  3. From the MODIFYING GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT A WORK STATION panel, modify the workstation database definition by setting Z-CENTRIC AGENT to Y. For details, refer to Modifying.
  4. To modify one fault-tolerant agent at a time, comment out the CPUREC statement related to the fault-tolerant workstation you are modifying.

    To modify all the fault-tolerant agents at once, delete the TPLGYPRM parameter in the BATCHOPT statement.

  5. For your changes to be effective, run a DAILY PLAN batch job.

Results

Message EQQ0371I is issued in EQQMLOG: 
Z-CENTRIC AGENT INFO HAS BEEN CHANGED FOR WORKSTATION WSNAME
If on the workstation modified there were operations with status S (started), the status is changed to I (interrupted) and message EQQ0372W is issued in EQQMLOG: 
STATUS OF OPERATION ADID IA OPNO HAS BEEN CHANGED FROM STARTED TO INTERRUPTED
AS A CONSEQUENCE OF WORKSTATION WSNAME CHANGE
The DP batch job ends with RC=4.
After you have modified all the fault-tolerant agents to z-centric agents:
  1. Delete any statements related to the end-to-end with fault tolerance environment from the Z controller and server.
  2. From the Z controller started task, delete the following DD names:
    • EQQTWSIN
    • EQQTWSOU
    • EQQSCLIB
    • EQQTWSCS
  3. From the server started task, delete the following DD names:
    • EQQTWSIN
    • EQQTWSOU
    • EQQTWSCS