Tivoli Workload Automation, Version 8.6

Monitoring the progress of your plan

You can request a graphical view that shows the progress of the current plan on the engines for which you have configured a connection and specified the option to show the engine in the dashboard. To request this graphical view, click Dashboard from the portfolio. The panel opens showing a chart for each engine for which you configured a connection and specified the option to show the engine in the dashboard.

To customize the dashboard refresh time interval for all the engines, open Settings > Manage User Preferences in the portfolio. In the lower part of this panel you can find a section to customize this interval.

Job status

pie chart view bar chart view
The initial view is a pie chart but optionally you can switch to the bar chart by clicking the icon in the toolbar below. The pie is divided into slices of different colors that indicate, as the bars of the bar chart, the current statuses of jobs in the plan. Below the chart, a legend identifies the status that is mapped to each color and indicates the number of jobs in the plan that currently have that status. For more details about possible statuses and their meaning depending on the operating system, see:
Distributed info only
Status description and mapping for distributed jobs
z/OS info only
Status description and mapping for z/OS job streams

Plan progress bar chart

progress bar chart The progress bar displayed in this section shows the progress of your plan. Successful jobs are represented by the green progress bar.

The progress bar view includes a subset of the job statuses included in the pie chart view. The following statuses are included:
  • Successful
  • Error
You can work with each pane in the following ways:
Change chart view
To switch between pie chart and bar chart view, click the graphic icon in the toolbar below the graphic: switch chart.
View details about the jobs that have a particular status
Click the hyperlinks to run a query to show details about the jobs with the selected status. The results of the query are displayed in a separate tab of Dynamic Workload Console. With engines version 8.6 and later, in case of rerun jobs, only the last rerun job instance is displayed in the query results.
View details about critical jobs

Critical jobs can be displayed only on engines on which the critical path feature is available and enabled. Click the critical job icon critical job icon to view the section that displays the risk level of critical jobs on each engine. Click the hyperlinks to run a query on all the critical jobs with that risk level, running on that engine. The results of the query are displayed in a separate tab of Dynamic Workload Console

Critical jobs can have one of the following risk levels:
  • High risk icon High Risk. Critical jobs with high risk of missing their deadline. Their estimated end time is later than their deadline. This is probably because some predecessors have missed their deadline.
  • success No Risk. Critical jobs with no risk of missing their deadline. Their estimated end time is before their deadline. No action has to be taken.
  • Potential risk icon Potential Risk. Critical jobs with potential risk of missing their deadline. This is probably because some predecessors are late or are having a long duration process.
Parent topic: Monitoring your Objects in the Plan
Related concepts:
Plans
Related tasks:
Accessing the Console from Your Mobile Device