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Dynamic Workload Console User's Guide
Reference
Reference information to perform the main tasks and activities from the Dynamic Workload Console.
Workload Designer
Reference information about the Workload Designer.
Run Cycle Preview
This view shows graphically the instances generated by the run cycle rules for a job stream or run cycle group, on a full year basis.

Dynamic Workload Console User's Guide
- Getting Started
  Information about the Dynamic Workload Console installation and configuration.
- Running HCL Workload Automation from a mobile device
  Use your mobile device to easily and quickly interact with your HCL Workload Automation environment.
- Managing users and repositories
  How to configure, change, and share your settings repository and change the DB2 user. How to manage the user settings.
- Configuring High Availability
  How to configure, change, and share your settings repository.
- Customizing your console
  You can customize your console to have just the tasks that you want to access.
- HCL Workload Automation Concepts
  Conceptual information about HCL Workload Automation
- Creating and Editing Objects
- Managing Workload Security
  Managing security settings in your environment by using Dynamic Workload Console.
- Changing user password in the plan
  How you change the user password in the plan.
- Monitoring your environment
- Working with Plans
  The main tasks that involve plans.
- Submitting Workload on Request in Production
  How you can insert jobs or job streams into your workflow at any time.
- Keeping track of changes
  How to keep track of changes in your environment
- Reporting
- Scenarios
  Scenarios demonstrating practical application of HCL Workload Automation in a business environment.
- Reference
  Reference information to perform the main tasks and activities from the Dynamic Workload Console.
  - Users and groups
    How a system of users and groups allows different types of access to the Dynamic Workload Console.
  - Type of communication based on SSL communication options
    How the SSL communication options for distributed workstations affect communication between workstations.
  - Status description and mapping for distributed jobs
    The job status as described in Dynamic Workload Console and how it is defined in HCL Workload Automation.
  - Status description and mapping for z/OS jobs
    z/OS job status displayed by Dynamic Workload Console and how it is defined in HCL Workload Automation for z/OS.
  - Status description and mapping for distributed job streams
    The job stream status in Dynamic Workload Console and how it is defined in HCL Workload Automation.
  - Status description and mapping for z/OS job streams
    The z/OS job stream status in Dynamic Workload Console and how it is defined in HCL Workload Automation for Z.
  - Workstation type
    The following are the main workstation types and their attributes.
  - Workload Designer
    Reference information about the Workload Designer.
    - Working List
      Use this pane to view all the objects that you are working on, to create new objects and to search for existing ones.
    - Details view
      Details view displays the structure of the job streams, associated dependencies, and run cycles in a tree table.
    - Run Cycle Preview
      This view shows graphically the instances generated by the run cycle rules for a job stream or run cycle group, on a full year basis.
    - Message History
      Use this panel to view all the messages related to the active session.
    - Using recovery options in job definitions
      Possible combinations of recovery options and actions.
  - Regular expressions and SQL reports
  - Event rule
- Glossary

Run Cycle Preview

This view shows graphically the instances generated by the run cycle rules for a job stream or run cycle group, on a full year basis.

The run cycle preview shows the days on which:

An inclusive instance is generated.
An exclusive instance is generated.
Multiple inclusive instances are generated.
Multiple exclusive instances are generated.
Exclusive and inclusive instances are generated, which exclude all of them.
Exclusive and inclusive instances are generated so that some instances are excluded.

To indicate the days where one or more instances are included or excluded by the run cycle rules, colors and symbols are used. By clicking any day, you can view the details about the run cycles occurring.

When you modify a property of the object that affects the generated instance, the preview is automatically updated.

For example, to show the run cycle preview for a job stream:

In the Dynamic Workload Console from the Design menu, select Workload Designer.
Select the engine to connect, then select a job stream (either in edit or view mode).
Click the Run Cycle Preview icon to display the view.
By default the drop-down menu is set to All, meaning that the combination of all the run cycle rules defined for the job stream are shown as follows:
- Inclusive instances.
- Exclusive and inclusive instances which result in excluding all of them.
- Exclusive and inclusive instances which result in excluding some of them.
From that drop-down menu, you can select a specific run cycle. In this way, the view is updated with all the instances generated by the rules of that run cycle (inclusive, exclusive, multiple inclusive, multiple exclusive).
When you view all the combinations, by hovering over the day you are shown the inclusive and exclusive instances. By clicking the day you are shown more detailed information.
Consider that, based on the rules that you have defined, the time to view the generated instances might increase significantly.