Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS

Leverage an enterprise-level workload automation backbone to drive heterogeneous workloads

IBM Tivoli® Workload Scheduler for z/OS® uses business policies to aggregate and centrally manage cross-enterprise, heterogeneous workloads to support business goals and service levels.

• Highly scalable, reliable workload automation backbone to minimize idle time and improve throughput by automatically processing heterogeneous workloads according to business policies
• Proactive monitoring and management of workloads by exception, with the ability to correlate and filter real time events, and analysis of historical data, through creation of reports via a single, Web-based operations console
• Calendar and event-based workload automation, enabling you to move from a static, platform-based view of production workloads to a flexible, service-driven environment
• Full Tivoli® Workload Automation portfolio integration for a complete workload automation solution such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) workloads, and extended capabilities with easy integration with third-party products
• Batch job and job stream execution based on real-time events, with user notification when unusual conditions occur in the infrastructure or batch scheduling activity
• Ease of workload management with real-time alerts and user notifications, self-monitoring and self-healing capabilities, automated recovery, and user-defined event rules for batch jobs scheduling
• Support for business initiatives including virtualization, green IT, SOA, IBM Service Management and IBM Tivoli Service Management Center for System z®
• Operating systems supported: z/OS
  

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Features, advantages and benefits

Features	Advantages	Benefits
Event driven scheduling	Ability to manage real-time event-triggered workloads in addition to calendar-triggered workloads	Reduces TCO in common event-triggered scheduling scenarios
End to End Workload Automation	Centralized but flexible control point in complex, heterogeneous environments	Provide seamless End to End configuration
Ships with the IBM Tivoli Dynamic Workload Console	New component provides a single Web-based point of operational control to the workload automation network	Monitor System z or enterprise-wide workloads
Critical path analysis and critical workload management	Ability to define workloads as “critical” with analysis of critical paths	Promote critical workloads on demand in response to delays to better meet Service Level Agreements. Leverage integration with WLM and provide more granular workload service class into the workload automation network
Integration with IBM Workload Manager, a component of z/OS	Leverage Scheduling Environment policy in WLM, making it easier to manage and monitor jobs with Scheduling Environments associated	Dynamic routing of workloads to best available System z resources
Integration with IBM Tivoli System Automation for z/OS	Easy to monitor System z resources	Reduces TCO to schedule System Automation commands and monitor their status
Integration with IBM Tivoli Enterprise Portal	Ability to monitor workloads and resources in a broader systems management context through a common interface	Increases the ability to respond to real-time events quickly and accurately

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• Includes a Web-based operations console, the IBM Tivoli Dynamic Workload Console, providing a single point of control for System z workloads or enterprise-wide workloads in end-to-end environments

• Integration with Tivoli Enterprise Portal for exceptions-based monitoring of workloads in a broader systems management context

• Enhanced event-triggering capabilities

• Ability to define critical jobs and critical path analysis

• Enhanced end-to-end integration and configuration including the ability to connect fault tolerant and standard agents directly to IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS

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