IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler 9.2 Operations and Scheduling (TX305G)

Introducing Workload Scheduler 9.2 Operations and Scheduling

• Workload Automation concepts
• Workload Scheduler terminology
• Workload Scheduler architecture
• Workload Scheduler production process

Getting started with the Dynamic Workload Console

• Opening the Dynamic Workload Console
• Navigating the console
• Connecting the console to Workload Scheduler

Monitoring system status and health

• Getting context-sensitive help
• Viewing the dashboard
• Creating and customizing monitoring tasks
• Using monitoring tasks
• Monitoring your scheduling environment
• Managing and monitoring plan objects
• Using the Plan View

Managing workflow

• Changing job dependencies
• Canceling jobs and job streams
• Setting job and job stream priority
• Setting limits
• Killing jobs that are running
• Browsing job logs
• Rerunning jobs
• Submitting new work

Using the console manager command line

• Locating the command line interface
• Starting the conman command
• Conman help
• Command shortcuts

Understanding the scheduling environment

• Plan-based agent types
• Dynamic agent types
• Pools and dynamic pools

Managing workload definitions

• Starting the designer
• Navigating the designer
• Using Quick open
• Using the Working List
• The Create Like button

Creating scheduling objects

• Creating users
• Creating prompts
• Creating resources
• Creating calendars
• Creating Variable tables
• Creating jobs

Creating job streams

• Planning job streams
• Building a basic job stream
• Using scheduling options
• Adding dependencies
• Creating run cycles
• Adding jobs to job streams
• Advanced job stream options

Creating and using event rules

• Event rule basics
• Creating a simple event rule
• Using event rule triggers
• Using event rule actions
• Feeding event trigger data to event rule actions
• Sets and sequences of events

Forecasting and viewing future plans

• Creating a forecast plan
• Viewing the preproduction plan

Using the composer command line

• Locating the command line interfafce
• Starting the composer command
• Composer help
• Workload Scheduler scheduling language

Using Workload Application Templates

• Creating a new template
• Exporting the template
• Creating mapping rules
• Importing data

Reporting with Workload Scheduler

• Built-in reporting
• Creating historical reports
• Job run statistics report
• Job run history report
• Workstation workload summary report
• Workstation workload runtimes report

Creating plan reports

• Actual production details report
• Planned production details report
• Creating custom SQL reports with Workload Scheduler views
• Using the reporting command-line