Welcome
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).
Planning and Installation
Installing and migrating HCL Workload Automation for Z
Verifying your installation
Verifying installation of a controller and dialogs
Ensuring that all installation tasks are complete

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.
    - 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

Ensuring that all installation tasks are complete

Make sure that you have:

Created a started-task procedure for the Z controller
Allocated data sets
Given security authority to the started task to access its data sets
Specified the initialization statements in the parameter library (EQQPARM)
Included the Z controller in an XCF group, if it uses an XCF connection
Defined a VTAM® application ID for the Z controller and activated the VTAM® resources, if it uses an NCF connection
Updated SYS1.PARMLIB and defined VTAM® resources, if users communicate with the Z controller through the HCL Workload Automation for Z API or if the HCL Workload Automation for Z server is used.
Set up the ISPF environment for HCL Workload Automation for Z dialog users.