About this publication

Scheduling End-to-end with z-centric Capabilities describes how to set up IBM Z Workload Scheduler to generate a lightweight end-to-end scheduling environment in which to schedule and control workload from the mainframe to distributed systems. While it exhaustively describes the required installation and customization tasks, this first edition provides only miscellaneous notes about the z-centric end-to-end scheduling solution. This publication is therefore to be used in conjunction with the rest of the IBM Workload Automation library; in particular see the following publications:

• Customization and Tuning for information about customizing and tuning IBM Z Workload Scheduler.
• Managing the Workload for details about organizing your workload and information about managing the workload when it becomes part of a plan and is run.
• Messages and Codes for message information.
• IBM Z Workload Scheduler: Planning and Installation for details about how to install the IBM Z Workload Scheduler Agent.
• IBM Z Workload Scheduler: Memo to Users for interoperability information among component versions.