Detailed Course Outline
Introduction
- IBM Tivoli Workload Automation suite
- Architecture
- Concepts and terminology
- Version 9.1.0 differences overview
- Version 9.2.0 differences overview
Workstations
- Workstation overview
- Creating workstation definitions
Calendars, periods, and run cycle groups
- Introduction to calendars
- Periods
- Run cycle groups
Applications
- Applications and operations
- Creating applications
- Timing workloads
- Defining operations
- Job descriptions
Operation submission, throughput, and monitoring
- Operation submission and throughput
- Dynamic feedback overview
- Operation priority
- Critical operations
- Workload Manager scheduling environments
- Advanced ISPF panels
Long-term and current plans
- Data bases and plans overview
- Long-term planning overview
- The current plan
Restart and cleanup
- Introduction to restart and cleanup
- Restart and cleanup options
- Restarting the operation
- Browsing the job log
Special resources
- Special Resource Overview
- Creating special resources
- Using special resources in operations
Automated job tailoring
- Automated job tailoring overview
- JCL directives
- JCL Variables
Automatic recovery
- Automatic recovery
Managing unplanned work
- Managing unplanned work overview
- OPSTAT and SRSTAT commands
- Event-triggered tracking
- Data set triggering
- XML, an alternative method