Installation paths

This section describes the default installation paths of the Dynamic Workload Console.

DWC_DATA_dir configuration directory

To simplify administration, configuration, and backup and recovery on UNIX systems, a new default behavior has been implemented with regard to the storage of product data and data generated by HCL Workload Automation, such as logs and configuration information. These files are now stored by default in the <data_dir> directory, which you can optionally customize at installation time.

By default, this directory is DWC_home/DWC_DATA for the Dynamic Workload Console. The product binaries are stored instead, in the installation directory.

You can optionally customize the <data_dir> directory at installation time by setting the --data_dir argument when you install using the command-line installation. If you want to maintain the previous behavior, you can set the --data_dir argument to the HCL Workload Automation installation directory.

If you deploy the product components using Docker containers, the <data_dir> is set to the default directory name and location, and it cannot be modified.

To retrieve the DWC_DATA_dir location in case you have modified the default path, check the values for the DWC_datadir properties stored in the twainstance<instance_number>.TWA.properties file. The file is located in /etc/TWA.

DWC_home installation directory
The Dynamic Workload Console can be installed in the path of your choice, but the default installation directory is as follows:
On Windows™ operating systems
%ProgramFiles%\wa\DWC
On UNIX™ operating systems
/opt/wa/DWC
On z/OS operating system
/opt/wa/DWC