Job

A job is a unit of work that specifies an action, such as a weekly data backup, to be performed on specific workstations in the IBM Workload Scheduler network.

In a IBM Workload Scheduler distributed environment, jobs can be defined either independently from job streams or within a job stream definition.

In a IBM Workload Scheduler for z/OS environment, jobs can be defined only within a job stream and are called operations. You can have started-task operations, which are operations run on a computer workstation that are used to start and stop started tasks.

Regardless of whether the IBM Workload Scheduler engine is distributed or z/OS based, you can define locally a shadow job to map a remote job instance running on a different IBM Workload Scheduler engine.

For more information about the job definition, see "Defining and scheduling objects" in the User's Guide and Reference.

Once job definitions have been submitted into the production plan, you still have the opportunity to make one-off changes to the definitions before they run, or after they have run. You can update the definition of a job that has already run and then rerun it. The job definition in the database remains unchanged.