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HCL Workload Automation
Welcome to the HCL Workload Automation documentation, where you can find information about how to install, maintain, and use HCL Workload Automation. The documentation has been updated for HCL Workload Automation Version 10.2.2.
User's Guide and Reference
Managing objects in the database - composer
Setting up the composer command-line program
Setting up the composer environment
Offline output

HCL Workload Automation
Welcome to the HCL Workload Automation documentation, where you can find information about how to install, maintain, and use HCL Workload Automation. The documentation has been updated for HCL Workload Automation Version 10.2.2.
- Planning and Installation
- User's Guide and Reference
  - HCL Workload Automation
  - Understanding basic processes and commands
  - Configuring the job environment
  - Managing the production cycle
  - Using workload service assurance
    Workload service assurance is an optional feature that provides the means to flag jobs as mission critical for your business and to ensure that they are processed in a timely manner. Using this function benefits your scheduling operations personnel by enhancing their ability to meet defined service levels.
  - Customizing your workload using variable tables
    This chapter introduces the concept of variable tables to group global parameters, from now on called variables, to customize your workload.
  - Condition-based workload automation
  - Running event-driven workload automation
  - Defining objects in the database
  - Managing objects in the database - composer
    - Setting up the composer command-line program
      - Setting up the composer environment
        Terminal output
        Offline output
        The composer editor
        Selecting the composer prompt on UNIX
      - Running the composer program
    - Running commands from composer
    - COMPOSER COMMANDS
    - Organizing scheduling objects into folders
      Move a set of scheduling objects in batch mode to specified folders using the scheduling object naming convention to name the folders.
  - Managing workload applications
    Workload applications can be created and then exported so that they can be shared with other HCL Workload Automation environments. In the new environment, the workload application can be subsequently updated, replaced, or deleted.
  - Managing objects in the plan - conman
  - Using Orchestration Query Language from command line
    You can use the essential Orchestration Query Language keywords and syntax to effectively write queries from command line.
  - Orchestration CLI
    The command line interface to run jobs or job streams and to interact with HCL Workload Automation.
  - Modifying context parameter temporarily
    You can temporarily modify the parameters in the default config.yaml file when you run a plan, model or plug-in command. This feature permits you to customize the behavior of a specific command without modifying the entire config.yaml file.
  - Monitoring HCL Workload Automation
    Using internal and third-party tools to monitor HCL Workload Automation
  - Extending HCL Workload Automation capabilities
    You can extend HCL Workload Automation capabilities by integrating with third-party products. This integration allows you to easily start HCL Workload Automation jobs on external products, while using HCL Workload Automation scheduling capabilities. HCL Workload Automation also provides jobs that perform everyday operations, such as file transfer and web services, and utility jobs that automate and simplify operations, such as the job stream submission.
  - Managing dynamic scheduling
    This section explains how you can manage dynamic scheduling capabilities in your environment to schedule both existing HCL Workload Automation jobs and job types with advanced options, both those supplied with the product and the additional types implemented through the custom plug-ins.
  - Using utility commands
  - Using utility commands in the dynamic environment
  - Getting reports and statistics
  - Managing time zones
  - Defining access methods for agents
  - Managing internetwork dependencies
  - Applying conditional branching logic
    With HCL Workload Automation you can define jobs to run when and as often as necessary. Sometimes some jobs might have to wait for other jobs to finish successfully before they start. Add even more flexibility to your job flows by choosing which job to run depending on the result of the job status or output of a previous job. Whenever you have conditions that specify whether or not a segment of your job flow should run, then that is a conditional dependency.
  - Defining and managing cross dependencies
  - Managing an IBM i dynamic environment
  - Event-driven workload automation event and action definitions
  - Quick reference for commands
  - Accessibility
- Administration Guide
- Scheduling with the Agent for z/OS
- Database Views
- High Availability Cluster Environment
- Driving HCL Workload Automation
- Extending HCL Workload Automation

Offline output

The ;offline option in composer commands is used to print the output of a command on a specified file. When you include it, the following shell variables control the output:

MAESTROLP

Specifies the destination file of a command's output. Set it to one of the following:

> outputfilename

Redirects output to a file and overwrites the contents of that file. If the file does not exist, it is created. For example:

MAESTROLP='> /tmp/outputfilename.txt'

>> outputfilename

Redirects output to a file and appends the output to the end of that file. If the file does not exist, it is created.

| command

Pipes output to a system command or process. The system command is run whether or not output is generated.

|| command

Pipes output to a system command or process. The system command is not run if there is no output.

The default value for MAESTROLP is | lp -tCONLIST which pipes the command output to the printer and places the title “CONLIST" in the printout's banner page.

MAESTROLPLINES

Specifies the number of lines per page. The default is 60.

MAESTROLPCOLUMNS

Specifies the number of characters per line. The default is 132.

The variables must be exported before running composer.