Designing your workload

Create and edit workload definitions in the database.

Before you begin

To create and edit scheduling items, open the Graphical Designer, by performing the following steps:

From the Design menu, click Graphical Designer page.
In the displayed panel, specify the engine connection you want to use. Only the categories of items supported by the engine that you selected are available.
Important: To ensure compatibility, the Dynamic Workload Console version installed must always be equal to or greater than the version of any engine it connects to.

You can open multiple occurrences of the Graphical Designer. The following scenarios are supported:

Same user connected to multiple engines
Multiple users connected to the same engine.

Creating a job stream

To start designing your environment, you can drag a job stream from the Blocks tab, and drop it on the workspace. A property panel appears, and you can specify information about the job stream. In the job stream box on the workspace, you can find the Add triggers and the Add constraints button; by clicking on them, you can add items that aim at controlling the processing of jobs and job streams in your environment.

Creating a job

There are two types of job that you can create from the Graphical Designer:

Job definitions: From the Assets tab, you can create a new job definition by clicking on the add icon + and selecting Job definition from the drop-down menu. After you have defined job information in the properties panel, you can save the job definition in the database by clicking Add.

Embedded jobs: From the Blocks tab, you can create an embedded job by dragging and dropping a job element into a job stream that is displayed on the workspace. In the properties panel, you must untoggle the Use job definition button, select the job type, and then specify information about the job. An embedded job can only be visible when opening the job stream that contains the embedded jobs, therefore you cannot find embedded jobs listed inside the Assets tab.

Adding jobs to a job stream

There are two ways of adding a job to a job stream from the Graphical Designer:

From the Blocks tab: You can drag and drop a new job into the job stream, and decide whether to reference an existing job definition or create an embedded job by toggling the Use job definition button.

From the Assets tab: You can search an existing job definition, then drag and drop it into the job stream.

Creating assets and adding them to a job stream

You can create assets from the Assets tab by clicking the add icon +, and selecting an asset from the drop-down menu. You can specify information about the selected asset in the properties panel, and then click Add to save the item in the database.

After you have created an asset, you can drag and drop it inside a job stream.

Managing assets

From the Assets tab, you can search for the asset that you want to manage, and then click on the three-dot menu next to the asset definition. The following actions are available:

Edit
Delete
Duplicate
Run