Step 18. Activating support for end-to-end scheduling with z-centric capabilities

To schedule jobs on HCL Workload Automation distributed z-centric agents, activate the end-to-end scheduling with z-centric capabilities. Perform the following steps:

1. Define the z-centric agent destinations in the ROUTOPTS initialization statement.
2. Customize the connection parameters in the HTTPOPTS initialization statement.
   Note: Use this statement to activate or disable the SSL connection protocol . If you want to disable the SSL connection, you can either:

   • Specify neither SSLKEYRING nor SSLPORT parameters.
   • Specify SSLPORT(0).
3. Configure the Z controller to enable the submission of jobs on z-centric and dynamic agents, as described in Enabling jobs submission on z-centric and dynamic agents.
4. Optionally, activate the output collector started task to retrieve job logs and copy them to a JES SYSOUT for processing by an external output management product. Customize the HTTPOPTS (OUTPUTCOLLECTOR and JLOGHDRTEMPL parameters), OPCOPTS (OUTCOL parameters), and OUCOPTS initialization statements.

   For the user ID running the output collector started task, ensure that you defined a HOME directory in the OMVS segment. For details, see HOME directory requirements for started tasks.

For details about the configuration steps, see Scheduling End-to-end with z-centric Capabilities.