About this publication

Developer's Guide: Driving HCL Workload Automation for Z shows you how to use the programming interfaces to HCL Workload Automation for Z to help you plan, schedule, and monitor work in the production department of your computer installation.

Your workload can run on various platforms, but you control it from a central z/OS® system that runs the HCL Workload Automation for Z controller.

This guide is part of a set of guides that allows you to program many aspects of working with the products in the HCL Workload Automation family. These guides comprise:
  • HCL Workload Automation: Developer's Guide: Driving HCL Workload Automation for Z
  • HCL Workload Automation: Developer's Guide: Extending IBM Workload Automation
  • Workload Automation Programming Language for z/OS User's Guide and Reference
Note: If you control your Z controller using Dynamic Workload Console, information about the programming interfaces you can use with the Dynamic Workload Console are available in both of the other Developer's Guides in the set.

The term scheduler, when used in this publication, refers to HCL Workload Automation for Z. The term DB2®, when used in this publication, refers to DATABASE 2 and DB2 Universal Database™.

The term z/OS® is used in this publication to mean z/OS® and OS/390® operating systems. Where the term OS/390® appears, the related information applies only to OS/390® operating systems.