Marie Wieck, GM, IBM Cloud Integration and Darren Oberst, EVP, HCL have posted some very exciting news around the Workload Automation products -  TWS distributed and TWS z/OS .  Please go here to review. https://www.ibm.com/blogs/systems/partnership-growth-innovation/   Kevin Dickson kr.dickson@us.ibm.com Sr Manager - Workload Automation, Client Support    

  Hello again! See what our internal staff and customers said were the important issues to view last month for admins Why will event rules will not trigger on a new Windows FTA.? http://ibm.co/2bcC6v6 TDWC 8.6-FP03 install failing with error AWSUI0086E http://ibm.co/2bHRHnF Why am I getting invalid syntax when trying to run a Windows TWS job? http://ibm.co/2bcXCQ7 "DSRA0010E: SQL State = , Error Code = -1,768" encountered using DB2 HADR http://ibm.co/2bHRYqH TDWC 8.6 installation failed with CMW3003E and Unkown Exec Class error... [More]

  Hello!   Welcome to the Tivoli Workload Scheduler technical support information update. This communication is designed and written by our Level 2 support staff to help you derive maximum value from your software by providing the most up-to-date technical information, answers to frequently asked questions, and links to other key information.  TWS August 2016

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Upgrading a distributed Tivoli Workload Scheduler environment can present challenges when, in addition to upgrading the product components, you need to upgrade your database AND switch to a different base operating system for your environment. Customer requirement: The upgrade involves not only upgrading Tivoli Workload Scheduler components, but includes the need to switch operating systems and upgrade the database version as well.  The complete procedure upgrades the Tivoli Workload Scheduler V8.5.1 master domain manager and backup master... [More]

IT Service Management Support ( ITSM) is thrilled to soon be joining IBM Cloud Technical Supports Facebook Page. Look to it for announcements on new videos, dWAnswers posts and other technical solutions for your ITSM products ( Formally Tivoli) See: https://www.facebook.com/IBMCloudTechnicalSupport/   and please LIKE the page to continue to see all the Cloud Support product assistance documents And we will continue to use our twitter id which is @TivoliSupport As well, our support video presence for all ITSM products can be found... [More]

The May 2016 newsletter just released and you can subscribe to the support team to get an automated email every month See the online version here: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27013365

This blog is co-authored by Francesca Ziantoni, Marina Fabbri and Maria Baldassarri . Do you have Tivoli Workload Scheduler V8.5.1 installed in your environment and are you satisfied with it? If you are, then why should you switch to the latest version IBM Workload Scheduler V9.3 Fix Pack 1? The answer is simple, read this blog to discover the 10 main reasons to upgrade your environment from TWS V8.5.1 to IBM Workload Scheduler V9.3.0.1 in a few steps.   Before analyzing the 10 main reasons to upgrade to V9.3 Fix Pack 1, we want to... [More]

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When IT customers deal with scheduling on mainframe, often it can happen that their workload runs in more than one z/OS, sometimes with no interactions among these environments for many reasons. Anyway, in many cases there is the need of conditioning the start of a z/OS batch procedure if and only if another job or chain completed successfully in a totally different z/OS system. The same thing happens with distributed environments, even if an end to end implementation can solve the issue of linking a mainframe job with a distributed job. What... [More]

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This post is co-authored by Riccardo Rossi and Eliana Cerasaro.  My story A new IBM Workload Scheduler (IWS) release which contains new appealing  feature that fit perfectly for your business has just been delivered but you are blocked by the idea to manually migrate all the IWS agents on your environment? Don't worry about that, IWS 9.3 introduces a new way to upgrade the IWS agent with a Centralized Agent Update feature that will let you to migrate to the new agent directly form the Dynamic Workload Console with just a click.... [More]

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The Dynamic Workload Console of the IBM Workload Automation allows users to access easily and quickly to TCR with the portlet “Common Reporting”. IBM Tivoli Common Reporting is an optional component of Jazz™ for Service Management that offers a powerful service to create, edit and customize the Cognos reports.   From the 9.3 release IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler, has been developed two analytical reports: Analysis Job Duration Estimation Error Analysis Job Duration Standard Deviation The first report helps the users to... [More]

Workload Scheduler ReportCLI is an additional component that gives you the possibility to extract historical or customized reports about your workload. It is a simple zip or tar package you can extract on any machine in your environment that can access the Workload Automation database (read "Setting up for command line batch reporting" for details). In fact it works connecting directly to the database to run queries. The package contains a configuration property file (config/common.properties) where you... [More]

Do you want to learn the fastest way to create a process that runs automatically every time you need? A method that allows you to achieve a excellent results by writing less code as possible? So what might interest you to learn the potentiality of the application lab , a user friendly UI that lets you use the power of the IBM Workload Scheduler service on Bluemix . I will explain how to use it by introducing a use case already discussed in the following previous articles:   Process customer orders every night using SDK for Node.js and IBM... [More]

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Among the various services offered on Bluemix , the Java Cloudant boilerplate is one of the most well-known and used. This boilerplate provides a web starter application. Just like any boilerplate, the application aims to provide a useful example of how the service can be used and the possibility to create your own application by modifying the code and then using a push onto Bluemix.   Quite common among the various applications available on Bluemix, is the absence of an auxiliary process that runs periodically, as is the case with the... [More]

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This article extends a previous one where I discussed how to use the IBM Workload Scheduler on Bluemix and explain the best practices of this service proposing a very common scenario :   Every night an e-commerce web application needs to process all the orders received during the day and notify customers via e-mail of the order status change. Automating this process would save a lot of time to the developers and also to the administrators of this web app and it is at this time that IBM Workload Scheduler become very useful.   In fact,... [More]

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