IBM Workload Manager for z/OS

Use this page to view and download documents covering the following topics:

 What's New
 Philosophy
 Running in Goal Mode
 Service Definition Controls
 Specific Functions
 

What's New
 

• What's new for WLM in z/OS V1R12 and V1R13
  (August 2012, 4.9MB)
• What's new for WLM in z/OS V1R11 and V1R12
  (August 2010, 1.51MB)
• What's new for WLM in z/OS V1R10 and V1R11
  (August 2010, 1.21MB)
• What's new for WLM in z/OS V1R9
  (September 2007, 3.27MB)
• What's new for WLM in z/OS V1R8
  (September 2006, 2.15MB)
• What's new for WLM in z/OS V1R6 and V1R7
  (August 2005, 5.72MB)

Philosophy
 

• z/OS Workload Manager: How It Works and How to Use It
  (May 2011, 0.78MB)
• z/OS Workload Management Overview
  (February 2002, 0.13MB)
• Dynamic Workload Balancing and Resource Management
  (Hot Topics Newsletter, August 2000, 2.47MB)
• Adaptive Algorithms for Managing a Distributed Data Processing Workload
  (from IBM SYSTEMS JOURNAL, VOL 36, NO 2, 1997, 4.10MB)

Running in Goal Mode
 

• WLM Operational Considerations
  (July 2000, 0.06MB)
• Understanding WLM RMF Reports
  (July 2000, 0.05MB)
• Workload Manager - Interpreting New WLM Measurements
  (August 1996, 0.22MB)

Service definition controls
 

• WLM Resource Groups
  (July 2000, 0.34MB)
• Velocity Goals: What You Don't Know Can Hurt You
  (February 1999, 0.12MB)
• Effective Use of MVS Workload Manager Controls
  (November 1995, 0.21MB)
•  Cheryl Watson's Articles , including "Why Go to Goal Mode?" and "Getting to Goal Mode"
•  Cheryl Watson's WLM Quickstart Service Definition:  The Quickstart Service Definition contains basic goals that can serve as an example for installations just starting to define their own WLM Service Definition. It originally appeared in Cheryl Watson's Tuning Letter, May/June 1995, and has been updated continuously.
•  The Washington Systems Center's Sample Service Definition:  This sample service definition is intended to give examples of various WLM constructs.

Specific functions
 

• z/OS Workload Manager Sysplex Routing Services
  (April 2011, 0.27MB)
• z/OS Workload Manager Managing CICS and IMS Workloads
  (March 2011, 0.58MB)
• WLM and Hiperdispatch
  (2010, 1.22MB)
• Managed Initiators Updated version with new section on Setting Goals for Batch Jobs
  (October 2002, 0.25MB)
• Goal-Based Initiator Management
  (July 2002, 0.17MB)
• IBM Tivoli NetView for z/OS Enclave Exploitation: New Subsystem Type NETV
  (2002, 0.03MB)
• The Intelligent Resource Director
  (2001, 0.04MB)
• The Intelligent Resource Director Presentation
  (2001, 0.31MB)
• 'Protecting Your Loved Ones' - WLM Goal Mode Enhancements
  (July 2000, 0.12MB)
• WLM, DB2, and Enclaves: The Inside Story
  (February 1999, 0.08MB)
•  Life's a Batch: MVS Workload Manager Invades JES2
  (1999, 0.11MB)
• CICS, IMS, and DB2 in a WLM World
  (1999, 0.21MB)
• WLM Resource Affinity Scheduling
  (September 1997, 0.11MB)
• Preemptible SRBS: Understanding, Exploiting, and Managing Them
  (July 1996, 0.12MB)