Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS

Aggregates and centrally manages workloads

• Proactively monitors and manages workloads by exception. Can correlate and filter near real-time events and analyze historical data by creating reports.
• Provides calendar and event-based workload automation. This enables you to move from a static, platform-based approach to a flexible, service-driven environment.
• Provides batch job and job stream execution based on near real-time events. Notifies you when unusual conditions occur in the infrastructure or batch scheduling activity.
• Provides near real-time alerts, self-monitoring and self-healing capabilities, automated recovery, and user-defined event rules for batch jobs and scheduling. Simplifies management and troubleshooting with a single point of control.
• Assembles long chains of execution across multiple environments with cross dependencies.

Designed to deliver workload automation

• Allows planning for hundreds of thousands of jobs, resolves interdependencies and launches and tracks each job. Maps all unattended business processes with great accuracy.
• Minimizes idle time and improves throughput by automatically processing heterogeneous workloads according to business policies.
• Supports business initiatives, including virtualization, green policies, service-oriented architecture (SOA) and IBM Tivoli Service Management Center for System z.
• Provides critical path analysis and critical workload management.
• Provides business continuity and integrity with a hot standby architecture, alternate workstation definition and backup plans.

Fully integrates

• Workload Manager integration provides dynamic routing of workloads to System z resources. This helps optimize workload velocity and IT resource use.
• Tivoli System Automation for z/OS integration helps make it easier to schedule system automation commands and monitor their status.
• Tivoli Enterprise Portal integration allows you to monitor workloads and resources in a broader systems management context through a common interface.