Systems management integration

The portfolio interfaces directly with some of the z/OS® products as well as with a number of other IBM® products to provide a comprehensive, automated processing facility and an integrated approach for the control of complex production workloads.

NetView®. NetView is the IBM platform for network management and automation. You can use the interface for IBM Z Workload Scheduler with NetView to pass information about the work that is being processed. The portfolio lets you communicate with NetView in conjunction with the production workload processing. IBM Z Workload Scheduler can also pass information to NetView for alert handling in response to situations that occur while processing the production workload. NetView can automatically trigger IBM Z Workload Scheduler to perform actions in response to these situations using a variety of methods. IBM Workload Scheduler/NetView is a NetView application that gives network managers the ability to monitor and diagnose IBM Workload Scheduler networks from a NetView management node. It includes a set of submaps and symbols to view IBM Workload Scheduler networks topographically and determine the status of job scheduling activity and critical IBM Workload Scheduler processes on each workstation.

Workload Manager (WLM). WLM controls the amount of system resources available to each work unit in host environments. IBM Z Workload Scheduler works in concert with WLM to detect critical jobs and move them to a higher-performance service class. In addition with WLM, critical jobs receive more system resources and complete more quickly.

Resource Object Data Manager (RODM). RODM provides a central location for storing, retrieving, and managing the operational resource information needed for network and systems management. You can map a special resource to a RODM object. This lets you schedule the production workload considering actual resource availability, dynamically updated.

Tivoli® Decision Support for z/OS (Decision Support). Decision Support helps you effectively manage the performance of your system by collecting performance data in a DATABASE 2™ (DB2®) database and presenting the data in a variety of formats for use in systems management. Decision Support uses data from IBM Z Workload Scheduler to produce summary and management reports about the production workload, both planned and actual results.

Output Manager for z/OS. Helps customers increase productivity and reduce the costs of printing by providing a means for storing and handling reports in a z/OS environment. When a dialog user requests to view a job log or to automatically rebuild the JCL for a step-level restart, IBM Z Workload Scheduler interfaces with Output Manager. This interface removes the requirement to duplicate job log information, saving both CPU cycles and direct access storage device (DASD) space.

Tivoli Information Management for z/OS. Supports the administration of the systems management process of an enterprise's hardware, software, and related resources. An interface with Tivoli Information Management for z/OS is provided for reporting problems detected while processing the production workload.

Resource Access Control Facility (RACF®). RACF is the IBM product for data security. You can use RACF as the primary tool to protect your IBM Z Workload Scheduler services and data at the level required by your enterprise. With RACF 2.1 and later, you can use a IBM Z Workload Scheduler reserved resource class to protect your resources.

IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM). You can use it to monitor your hardware, operating systems, applications, databases. It provides proactive monitoring and automated fault management, and includes a specific module for Business Integration. You can also manage configuration and collect monitoring information for reporting, performance analysis, trend predictions and enterprise wide business impact assessment.

IBM SmartCloud Control Desk (SCCD). It is an incident management system. SSCD can function as a service desk for both IT and non-IT assets, whether internally or externally hosted. SCCD helps to improve IT performance by providing automation of processes, better visibility of service support functions, commitments, and measurements.

Tivoli System Automation for z/OS (SA z/OS). SA z/OS initiates automation procedures that perform operator functions to manage z/OS components, data sets, and subsystems. SA z/OS includes an automation feature for IBM Z Workload Scheduler. You can define an automation workstation in IBM Z Workload Scheduler to handle system automation operations with a specific set of options.

Data Facility Hierarchical Storage Manager (DFHSM). IBM Z Workload Scheduler catalog management functions invoke DFHSM to recall migrated data sets during data set cleanup for a failed or rerun job.

CICS® and IMS™ (Computer Information Control System and Information Management System). IBM Z Workload Scheduler lets you schedule the starting and stopping of started tasks. Because IBM Z Workload Scheduler tracks the status of started tasks, you can serialize work, such as backups of your transaction databases, according to the status of your CICS or IMS subsystems.

Tivoli Business Systems Manager. Tivoli Business Systems Manager provides monitoring and event management of resources, applications, and subsystems with the objective of providing continuous availability for the enterprise. Using Tivoli Business Systems Manager with the portfolio provides the ability to manage strategic applications from a unique business systems perspective. Tivoli Business Systems Manager monitors batch-related applications and operations represented by the portfolio and seamlessly integrates these objects with all other business objects monitored by Tivoli Business Systems Manager.

Tivoli Enterprise Console®. The Tivoli Enterprise Console is a powerful, rules-based event management application that integrates network, systems, database, and application management. It offers a centralized, global view of your computing enterprise while ensuring the high availability of your application and computing resources. Tivoli Enterprise Console acts as a central collection point for alarms and events from a variety of sources, including those from Tivoli applications. IBM Workload Scheduler runs a Tivoli Enterprise Console adapter that reads events from the IBM Workload Scheduler log file.

Besides these IBM products, there are many products from other software vendors that work with or process data from the portfolio.

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