Scheduling Applications with HCL Workload Automation
- 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.
- Job plug-ins to extend workload scheduling capabilities
- Access methods
  - Installing and configuring the access methods
    The access methods documented in this guide are packaged with HCL Workload Automation and are automatically installed with the product on dynamic and fault-tolerant agents.
  - Access method for PeopleSoft
    What you need and what you can do with Access method for PeopleSoft.
  - Access method for z/OS
    What you need to know and to do before using the Access method for z/OS.
  - Common serviceability for the access methods
    This section provides information common to all the access methods including return code mapping, configuring the tracing utility, and troubleshooting the access method.
- Integration with SAP

Checking for files on z/OS

The existence of a file can be used as a job dependency in HCL Workload Automation. To check for the existence of a file on z/OS, HCL Workload Automation passes the file name to the Gateway. The file name is allocated with DISP=OLD, and is considered to exist if the following conditions apply:

The data is cataloged
It is allocated
It is not being used by another task

If the data set does not exist, HCL Workload Automation continues to wait and check for the file at a frequency determined by the

bm
check file

option in the localopts file of the fault-tolerant workstation that is hosting the extended agent. The localopts options are described in the Planning and Installation Guide.

Note: HCL Workload Automation can only use fully qualified data set names for non-partitioned files. If a Generation Data Group name is to be used, it must be the fully qualified name and not a relative name (for example, xxxxx.xxxxx(-1) cannot be used).

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