Creating workstations
Specify your environment to HCL Workload Automation for Z in terms of workstations and resources. A workstation is not necessarily hardware. It is a stage in the processing that is controlled by HCL Workload Automation for Z. The processor complex that runs your controller is a computer workstation, and you will probably create two workstations for it, because there must be separate workstations for jobs and for started tasks.
The job preparation team submits jobs, often adding runtime parameters on request. Often a runtime parameter is just the day's date. The program cannot simply get the date from the time-of-day clock because sometimes the date must be when the group of jobs starts, which must not change, even if the jobs continue to run past midnight. At other times, the date appears on the pay slips, and must be Friday's date, regardless of the date when the jobs run. In these cases, HCL Workload Automation for Z is usually able to automatically substitute the correct date in the jobs. Where manual intervention is unavoidable, HCL Workload Automation for Z can control when the job is available for variable substitution and submission. HCL Workload Automation for Z can also keep track of what stage the job is at. You specify manual job preparation work as a workstation.
Another type of workstation is a printer workstation. HCL Workload Automation for Z is notified when a print output group has finished printing. This way HCL Workload Automation for Z can keep track of the status of important print operations and the time they take. You do not have to specify a print operation for every job that prints something. Only specify a print operation when you want to track it.
If there is a manual process that you want to track, specify it as a general workstation. Such workstations do not, of course, have JES and SMF exits to tell HCL Workload Automation for Z what is going on, but you can have a terminal where the operator changes the HCL Workload Automation for Z status of an operation through the ISPF panel. If the status of an operation can be detected by VTAM®, NetView®, or by one of your own programs, you can get the program to inform HCL Workload Automation for Z of the new status, and HCL Workload Automation for Z then starts the dependent operations.
- Computer workstation for jobs
- Computer workstation for started tasks, if CICSA is a started task and you want it to run under HCL Workload Automation for Z
- General workstation for job preparation
- Printer workstation
- General workstation for the payroll office, if you need to keep track of manual operations there, such as the collation of pay slips and preparation of pay packets
See Creating workstations for a full description of workstations. This section shows how you might create them for Paymore.
1.1.2
from the main menu) to list workstations.
The command CREATE
displays the panel shown in EQQWCGEP - Creating general
information about a workstation. EQQWCGEP - Creating general
information about a workstation is one of several ISPF
panels that you need to create a workstation. Use the A
command
to specify when the workstation is available.
Use the R
command
to specify workstation fixed
resources, called R1 and R2. Although these fixed resources are less
useful, because you can do more with special resources (see Creating special resources). So the Paymore
application does not use any workstation fixed resources.
Grouping of payroll applications shows values that you might specify for the workstations. If you have a general workstation to track manual operations in the payroll office, PAY1, create it like the job setup workstation SETP, but with JOB SETUP = N.