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 10.2.7.
The SAP R/3 batch access method enables communication between an external SAP R/3 system and IBM Workload Scheduler and provides a single point of entry for automating the launching of jobs, monitoring the status of jobs and managing exceptions and recovery.
This section describes how to manage SAP jobs.
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.
Improve SAP operations and enable business growth with IBM Workload Scheduler.
You must configure the SAP environment before using the SAP access method.
This section provides detailed information about the SAP options file creation.
You must define some jobs to be able to run jobs on an SAP workstation from IBM Workload Scheduler.
Browse spool lists on request without having to download the entire spool which can occupy significant space on the file system.
You can rerun a standard SAP job from the start, or from a specific numeric step of the SAP instruction.
This section describes how to create and submit SAP jobs dynamically without creating or referencing predefined job templates.
IBM Workload Scheduler accesses the Computer Center Management System (CCMS) Background Processing components of SAP systems through the BC-XBP interface to provide additional capabilities from the Dynamic Workload Console, one of those being the Criteria Manager.
By using the Batch Data Collector (BDC) Wait option, you can specify that a SAP job launched by IBM Workload Scheduler is not to be considered complete until all of its BDC sessions have completed.
This section describes how the job interception and parent-child features of BC-XBP 2.0 and 3.0 are supported by IBM Workload Scheduler.
Business Information Warehouse (BIW) is a data warehouse solution tailored to SAP.
Learn how the job throttling feature helps you to improve the efficiency of your scheduling on SAP systems and reduce the batch window for your SAP jobs to a minimum.
This section describes how to export SAP factory calendars into a file format that can be processed by the IBM Workload Scheduler composer command line, to add the exported calendar definitions to the IBM Workload Scheduler database.
This section describes how to define internetwork dependencies and event rules for IBM Workload Scheduler based on SAP background events.
You can use IBM Workload Scheduler to monitor Intermediate Document (IDoc) records in SAP systems and forward events to the IBM Workload Scheduler event integration framework.
Use CCMS functions to check the performance of the various SAP system components, diagnose potential problems, and be alerted about error and warning conditions.
The National Language support feature allows you to install SAP on a localized IBM Workload Scheduler workstation and use localized characters for IBM Workload Scheduler job names, job streams, and SAP variants.
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Learn what to do if you get any problems while installing or using IBM Workload Scheduler access methods or plug-ins.
IBM Workload Scheduler and SAP Solution Manager are integrated to allow the IBM Workload Scheduler engine to run the job scheduling tasks available from the Solution Manager user interface.
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 (with APAR PH68599).