Parts and their relationships

HCL Workload Automation for Z consists of a base product, the agent, and a number of features. You need the base product to track your workload. Hereafter, you see the agent referred to as the tracker and the engine referred to as the Z controller. One z/OS system in your complex is designated the controlling system and runs the Z controller feature. Only one controller feature is required, even when you want to start standby controllers on other z/OS systems in a sysplex.

You can also control the workload in other operating environments (UNIX, Windows, IBM i) using the end-to-end scheduling functions provided in HCL Workload Automation for Z and HCL Workload Automation.

The rest of this section describes the tracker and Z controller, their relationship, and how you can configure them.