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HCL Workload Automation for Z
Welcome to the HCL Workload Automation for Z documentation, where you can find information about how to install, maintain, and use the product.
Planning and Installation
Planning
Planning your configuration
This chapter describes several areas to consider when planning the configuration for your installation. It explains connections between HCL Workload Automation for Z systems and provides some examples of basic configurations.
How to connect HCL Workload Automation for Z systems
HCL Workload Automation for Z systems can be connected by using any of the following methods.

HCL Workload Automation for Z
Welcome to the HCL Workload Automation for Z documentation, where you can find information about how to install, maintain, and use the product.
- Program Directory
- Dynamic Workload Console Readmes
  For the latest information about a Dynamic Workload Console fix pack, see the appropriate Readme File.
- Planning and Installation
  - About this publication
  - Planning
    - Overview
    - Planning your configuration
      This chapter describes several areas to consider when planning the configuration for your installation. It explains connections between HCL Workload Automation for Z systems and provides some examples of basic configurations.
      - Planning considerations
        HCL Workload Automation for Z must recognize when events occur; for example, when a started task or job begins to run or terminates, or when a data set has been printed. It uses JES and SMF exits to obtain this information from z/OS and to create event records describing the changes in the system.
      - How to connect HCL Workload Automation for Z systems
        HCL Workload Automation for Z systems can be connected by using any of the following methods.
        TCP/IP
        HCL Workload Automation for Z uses Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) to connect a tracker to the controller using a TCP/IP link.
        z/OS cross-system coupling facility
        HCL Workload Automation for Z uses the z/OS cross-system coupling facility (XCF) to connect HCL Workload Automation for Z systems using XCF communication links.
        VTAM® (network communication function)
        HCL Workload Automation for Z uses the network communication function (NCF) to connect a tracker to the controller using a VTAM® link.
        Shared DASD
      - Workstation destination
        The various physical and logical locations where tasks are performed at your installation are represented in HCL Workload Automation for Z by workstations. Each workstation groups related activities. Every operation in the application description database and the current plan is associated with a workstation. You define workstations in the workstation description database.
      - Workload restart
        You can use workload restart (WLR) to restart and reroute work in your HCL Workload Automation for Z configuration. WLR tracks the status of workstations. It can be invoked when a workstation becomes inactive; that is, when the controller cannot communicate with the tracker at the destination that the workstation represents.
      - JES considerations
        The JES type and configuration in your installation has implications on your HCL Workload Automation for Z configuration.
      - Basic configuration examples
        Examples of HCL Workload Automation for Z configurations using the various connection methods.
      - Basic data store configuration examples
        You need to install a Data Store for each spool tracked by HCL Workload Automation for Z in the configuration.
      - Configuring a backup controller for disaster recovery
    - Planning your installation
  - Installing HCL Workload Automation for Z
  - Installing Dynamic Workload Console and Z connector
  - Deploying with containers
    Getting started with containers
  - Deploying AI Data Advisor
    You can deploy AI Data Advisor (AIDA) by using Docker or Kubernetes.
  - Installing HCL Workload Automation Agent (z-centric)
    How to install, migrate, and uninstall the HCL Workload Automation Agent (also known as z-centric agent).
  - Installing HCL Workload Automation Agent on IBM i systems
    Installing HCL Workload Automation Agent on IBM i systems
  - Integrating Workload Automation with Zowe™
    Zowe™ is an open source project that enables you to interact with z/OS through modern interfaces. You can issue Workload Automation commands through the Zowe command-line interface (CLI), and access Workload Automation REST APIs through the Zowe API Mediation Layer (ML).
  - Sample library (SEQQSAMP)
    The SEQQSAMP library contains samples to help you install and customize HCL Workload Automation for Z.
  - Configuration examples
  - Invoking the EQQEXIT macro
  - Invoking the EQQLSENT macro
- Customization and Tuning
- Managing the Workload
  You can plan when and how your workload runs and manage it as part of a plan.
- Scheduling End-to-end with z-centric Capabilities
- Quick Reference
- Diagnosis Guide and Reference
- Workload Automation Programming Language for z/OS User's Guide and Reference
- Driving HCL Workload Automation for Z

How to connect HCL Workload Automation for Z systems

HCL Workload Automation for Z systems can be connected by using any of the following methods.

TCP/IP link
XCF communication links
VTAM® link
Shared DASD

The controller uses any of these methods to transmit work to a tracker system. The tracker system uses the same connection to transmit events back to the controller.

Distributed agents communicate with the controller by using TCP/IP services.