Developer's Guide

Many features of IBM Workload Automation can be programmed. This section gives an overview of what can be achieved and where to find the documentation.

Driving IBM Workload Automation

You can drive IBM Workload Scheduler and IBM Workload Scheduler for z/OS (through the IBM Workload Scheduler for z/OS connector) using the Java API and the Web Services Interface to manage objects in the database and the plan.

To help you develop these interfaces, these products include the Eclipse-based Integration Workbench (also known as SDK). The SDK help explains how to create and develop API projects and references to the Java classes and methods available, but because the Web Services Interface is used outside SDK it is described in full in the publication.

Extending IBM Workload Automation

You can extend IBM Workload Automation by creating Java plug-ins to do the following tasks:

• For event-driven workload automation, create new plug-ins to implement events and actions not managed by IBM Workload Scheduler
• For job definitions, create plug-ins to support the definition and running of dynamic job types not supported by IBM Workload Scheduler

You can extend IBM Workload Automation also by creating Java jobs.

The SDK help explains how to create, develop and implement the plug-in projects and describes the Java classes and methods you use.