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Workload Automation 10.2.4
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  3. HCL Workload Automation for Z

    Welcome to the HCL Workload Automation for Z documentation, where you can find information about how to install, maintain, and use the product. The documentation has been updated for version 10.2 SPE (Revised April 2025).

  4. Planning and Installation
  5. Installing and migrating HCL Workload Automation for Z
  6. Installing

    zos/src_inst/eqqi1installing.html#installing__itasks summarizes the tasks to install HCL Workload Automation for Z and identifies the address space type for each of them. Depending on your configuration, you might not need to perform every task indicated in the table. Skip those sections that are not relevant to your installation.

  7. Step 12. Setting up the ISPF environment
  8. Invoking the HCL Workload Automation for Z dialog
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  • Product requirements

    This section contains links to the HCL Workload Automation Product Requirements.

  • Detailed System Requirements for HCL Workload Automation, Version 10.2.4
  • Detailed System Requirements for Dynamic Workload Console, Version 10.2.4
  • Overview
  • Mobile Applications Userʼs Guide
  • Dynamic Workload Console User's Guide
  • AI Data Advisor (AIDA) User's Guide
  • Scheduling Job Integrations with HCL Workload Automation
  • 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 10.2.4.

  • HCL Workload Automation for Z

    Welcome to the HCL Workload Automation for Z documentation, where you can find information about how to install, maintain, and use the product. The documentation has been updated for version 10.2 SPE (Revised April 2025).

    • Program Directory
    • Dynamic Workload Console Readmes

      For the latest information about a Dynamic Workload Console fix pack, see the appropriate Readme File.

    • Planning and Installation
      • About this publication
      • Planning
      • Installing and migrating HCL Workload Automation for Z
        • Installing

          zos/src_inst/eqqi1installing.html#installing__itasks summarizes the tasks to install HCL Workload Automation for Z and identifies the address space type for each of them. Depending on your configuration, you might not need to perform every task indicated in the table. Skip those sections that are not relevant to your installation.

          • Step 1. Loading tracker software
          • Step 2. Loading controller software
          • Step 3. Loading national language support software
          • Step 4. Using the EQQJOBS installation aid
          • Step 5. Adding SMF and JES exits for event tracking
          • Step 6. Updating SYS1.PARMLIB
          • Step 7. Setting up the RACF® environment
          • Step 8. Securing communications
          • Step 9. Allocating data sets
          • Step 10. Creating JCL procedures for address spaces
          • Step 11. Defining the initialization statements
          • Step 12. Setting up the ISPF environment
            • Setting up the CLIST library
            • Setting up the ISPF tables
            • Allocating dialog data sets to your TSO session
            • Invoking the HCL Workload Automation for Z dialog
              • Using the EQQOPCAC sample CLIST
              • Modifying an existing ISPF selection menu
              • Selecting the main menu directly from TSO
              • Using the ISPF select service
              • Switching to the advanced style for ISPF panels
          • Step 13. Using XCF for communication
          • Step 14. Activating the network communication function
          • Step 15. Using TCP/IP for communication
          • Step 16. Activating support for the API
          • Step 17. Activating support for the product dialog and programming interface using the server
          • Step 18. Activating support for end-to-end scheduling with z-centric capabilities
          • Step 19. Activating support for Dynamic Workload Console
          • Step 20. Activating support for the Java™ utilities
        • Verifying your installation
        • Migrating

          This topic provides information to help you plan your migration from HCL Workload Automation for Z versions 9.5 and 10.1 to version 10.2.

      • Installing Dynamic Workload Console and Z connector

        How to install, upgrade, configure, and uninstall the Dynamic Workload Console and Z connector, which is automatically installed with a Dynamic Workload Console instance.

      • Deploying with containers

        Docker is a state-of-the-art technology that creates, deploys, and runs applications by using containers. Packages are provided containing an application with all of the components it requires, such as libraries, specific configurations, and other dependencies, and deploy it in no time on any UNIX, Windows, and Linux on Z workstation, regardless of any different settings between the source and the target workstation.

      • Deploying AI Data Advisor

        You can deploy AI Data Advisor (AIDA) by using Docker or Kubernetes.

      • Installing HCL Workload Automation Agent (z-centric)

        The following topics describe how to install, migrate, and uninstall the HCL Workload Automation Agent (also known as z-centric agent).

      • Installing HCL Workload Automation Agent on IBM i systems
      • Integrating Workload Automation with Zowe™

        Zowe™ is an open source project that enables you to interact with z/OS through modern interfaces. You can issue Workload Automation commands through the Zowe command-line interface (CLI), and access Workload Automation REST APIs through the Zowe API Mediation Layer (ML).

      • Sample library (SEQQSAMP)

        The SEQQSAMP library contains samples to help you install and customize HCL Workload Automation for Z.

      • Invoking the EQQEXIT macro
      • Invoking the EQQLSENT macro
    • Customization and Tuning
    • Managing the Workload

      You can plan when and how your workload runs and manage it as part of a plan.

    • Scheduling End-to-end with z-centric Capabilities
    • Quick Reference
    • Diagnosis Guide and Reference
    • Workload Automation Programming Language for z/OS User's Guide and Reference
    • Driving HCL Workload Automation for Z
  • Messages and Codes
  • Glossary
  • Notices
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Invoking the HCL Workload Automation for Z dialog

You can invoke the HCL Workload Automation for Z dialog in the following ways:
  • Using the EQQOPCAC sample CLIST
  • Modifying an existing ISPF selection menu
  • Selecting the main menu directly from TSO
  • Using the ISPF select service
To switch to the advanced style, see Switching to the advanced style for ISPF panels.
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