Summary
IBM Workload Automation communicates
with other key IBM® products
to provide a comprehensive, automated processing facility and an integrated
solution for the control of all production workloads. Here are the
benefits that the portfolio offers you:
- Increased automation
- Increases efficiency and uses DP resources more effectively, resulting in improved service levels for your customers.
- Improved systems management integration
- Provides a unified solution to your systems management problems.
- More effective control of DP operations
- Lets you implement change and manage growth more efficiently.
- Increased availability
- Is made possible by automatic workload recovery.
- Opportunities for growth
- Are made possible by your ability to manage greater workload volumes.
- Investment protection
- Is made easier by building on your current investment in z/OS® and allowing existing customers to build on their existing investment in workload management.
- Improved customer satisfaction
- Is achieved thanks to higher levels of service and availability, fewer errors, and faster response to problems.
- Greater productivity
- Results because repetitive, error-prone tasks are automated and operations personnel can use their time more efficiently.
- Integration of multiple operating environments
- Provides a single controlling point for the cooperating systems that comprise your DP operation.
The portfolio is more than just a batch scheduling tool: it is a production management system with the capability to schedule all the work running on any system.