Preparing jobs at a setup workstation

A setup workstation is a general workstation used for preparing jobs. In IBM Z Workload Scheduler, the operation of preparing jobs is immediately followed by the operation that runs the job on the computer workstation. If it is not waiting for other conditions to be met, the job can be started as soon as job setup is complete.

When you set the next logical status for an operation at a job setup workstation (with the N row command), IBM Z Workload Scheduler reports the status of the setup operation as S (started). The action that IBM Z Workload Scheduler takes depends on whether it finds promptable variables in the job that have not been resolved.

Note: When you edit the job using the READY LIST or MCP panels, you edit the latest job from the JS file, which is where IBM Z Workload Scheduler places modified jobs. The original job is always left unaltered in the partitioned data set allocated to the DD name EQQJBLIB (JBLIB). To force IBM Z Workload Scheduler to read a fresh copy of the job from JBLIB, delete all the lines and end the edit.