IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler Version 8.2: New Features and Best Practices

IBMTivoli Workload Scheduler, Version 8.2 is IBM’s strategic scheduling product that runs on many different platforms, including the mainframe. This IBM Redbook covers the new features of Tivoli Workload Scheduler 8.2, focusing specifically on the Tivoli Workload Scheduler 8.2 Distributed product. In addition to new features and real-life scenarios, you will find a whole chapter on best practices (mostly version independent) with lots of tips for fine tuning your scheduling environment. For this reason, even if you are using a back-level version of Tivoli Workload Scheduler 8.2 , you will benefit from this redbook.

Some of the topics that are covered in this book are:
- Return code management
- Late job handling
- Security enhancements
- Disaster recovery
- Job Scheduling Console enhancements
- IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console integration
- Tips and best practices

Customers and Tivoli professionals who are responsible for installing, administering, maintaining or using Tivoli Workload Scheduler 8.2 will find this redbook a major reference.

Chapter 1. IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler 8.2 new features
Chapter 2. Job Scheduling Console enhancements
Chapter 3. Installation
Chapter 4. Return code management
Chapter 5. Security enhancements
Chapter 6. Late job handling
Chapter 7. IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console integration
Chapter 8. Disaster recovery with IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Chapter 9. Best practices
Appendix A. Additional material
Appendix B. Code samples

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Publish Date
03 November 2003

Last Update
12 February 2004

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Author(s)

Vasfi Gucer is an IBM Certified Consultant IT Specialist working at the ITSO Austin Center. He worked with IBM Turkey for 10 years, and has been with the ITSO since January 1999. He has more than 10 years of experience in systems management, networking hardware and distributed platform software. He has worked on various Tivoli customer projects as a Systems Architect in Turkey and the U.S. Vasfi is a Certified Tivoli Consultant.

• Vasfi Gucer

Rick Jones is currently an L2 Senior Software Engineer for IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler. He has worked for IBM for five years supporting IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler. He has been using, administering and supporting various flavors of UNIX for the past 20 years, with considerable shell script and Perl experience.

• Rick Jones

Natalia Jojic is a Certified Tivoli Consultant and instructor based in London, UK. She is currently working for Elyzium Limited, a UK-based IBM Premier Partner. She is primarily engaged in client-based consulting on delivering Tivoli Enterprise Management solutions, design and development of Tivoli integration modules with other, non-Tivoli products (such as AlarmPoint). Natalia has a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Systems Engineering from City University, London, UK.

• Natalia Jojic

Dave Patrick is a Certified IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler consultant and instructor currently working for Elyzium Limited, a UK-based IBM Premier Partner. He has 17 years of IT experience, including working as an NCR mainframe operator and programmer, a UNIX Administrator, and in the last seven years as a ITWS consultant, five as an instructor of Versions 6.1 to 8.2. During his time as an instructor, he has taught most of the courses held in the UK, as well as courses at IBM locations in Italy, Belgium, Sweden and South Africa. Though he is primarily an instructor, he has been involved in course development, and has also architected and installed a large number of IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler implementations.

• Dave Patrick

Alan Bain is an IT Specialist in IBM Tivoli Services in Stoke Poges (UK). Over the past four years, Alan has also worked as a Technical Training Consultant with IBM Tivoli Education and a Pre-Sales Systems Engineer with the IBM Tivoli Advanced Technology Group. He has extensive customer experience and in his current services role works on many short-term and long-term IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager engagements all over the UK, including a TNG-to-ITWS conversion project completed in six months.

• Alan Bain

ISBN

0738453129

IBM Form Number
SG24-6628-00

Number of pages
416