Using Tivoli Business Service Manager

This chapter describes how to use IBM Z Workload Scheduler with Tivoli Business Service Manager, Version 1.5 with APAR 0W50948 or later.

Tivoli Business Service Manager enables you to monitor and manage events related to resources, applications, and subsystems with the objective of providing continuous availability for the enterprise. The product receives events and inputs from z/OS® systems and Tivoli® managed distributed systems. It then calculates propagation rules and applies them according to the business rules of the enterprise so that you can determine immediately the overall impact of an outage.

Using Tivoli Business Service Manager with IBM Z Workload Scheduler, you can manage strategic applications from a unique business systems perspective.

You can take advantage of this integration to monitor the following scheduling objects with Tivoli Business Service Manager:

Operations in the current plan. This is described in Using Tivoli Business Service Manager to monitor operations in the plan and in its subsections.
Applications, operations, and workstations in the data base. This is described in Using Tivoli Business Service Manager to monitor objects in the database and in its subsections.