Overview
Learn about plug-ins and access methods and how you can use them to extend HCL Workload Automation scheduling capabilities to external applications and systems.
You can extend job scheduling capabilities with HCL Workload Automation plug-ins to external applications to take advantage of all the HCL Workload Automation functions to manage the operations and tasks performed by the external applications.
Note: Some of the old plug-ins previously provided with the product, are now out-of-the-box
integrations available on Automation Hub. The related
documentation has been removed from the product library and has been made available on Automation Hub.
In addition to these job plug-ins, you can find new integrations on Automation Hub that extend your automation processes.
The plug-ins are:
| Job Plug-in | More information |
|---|---|
| Amazon EC2 | Amazon EC2 jobs |
| Apache Oozie | Apache Oozie jobs |
| Apache Spark | Apache Spark jobs |
| IBM BigInsights | IBM BigInsights jobs |
| IBM Cloudant | IBM Cloudant jobs |
| IBM Cognos | IBM Cognos jobs |
| IBM InfoSphere DataStage | IBM InfoSphere DataStage jobs |
| IBM Sterling Connect:Direct | IBM Sterling Connect:Direct jobs |
| IBM WebSphere MQ | IBM WebSphere MQ jobs |
| IBM SoftLayer | IBM SoftLayer jobs |
| Hadoop Distributed File System | Hadoop Distributed File System jobs |
| Hadoop Map Reduce | Hadoop Map Reduce jobs |
| Informatica PowerCenter | Informatica PowerCenter jobs |
| Microsoft Azure | Microsoft Azure jobs |
| Oracle E-Business Suite | Oracle E-Business Suite jobs |
| UrbanCode Deploy | UrbanCode Deploy jobs |
| Salesforce | Salesforce jobs |
| SAP BusinessObjects BI | SAP BusinessObjects BI jobs |
| SAP PI Channel | SAP Process Integration (PI) Channel jobs |
You can use access methods to extend the job scheduling capabilities of HCL Workload Automation to other systems and
applications. Access methods run on:
- Extended agents to extend static scheduling capability.
- Dynamic agents and HCL Workload Automation Agents to extend dynamic scheduling capability.
An access method interacts with the external system through either
its command line or the Dynamic Workload Console. HCL Workload Automation includes
the following access methods:
| Access Method | More information |
|---|---|
| SAP R/3 (r3batch) | Configuring the SAP environment |
| PeopleSoft (psagent) | Access method for PeopleSoft |
| z/OS® (mvsjes and mvsopc) | Access method for z/OS |