Integrating IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler and Content Manager OnDemand to Provide Centralized Job Log Processing

This IBM Redbook implements a solution that integrates IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler and IBM DB2 Content Manager OnDemand products to provide centralized output processing for job logs (job outputs, message files, and audit files) from IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler and IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS. The solution provides immediate benefit by integrating the job logs into an online, electronic information archive and retrieval system, which is used for quick search and problem resolution purposes.

As part of the solution, we cover defining and implementing the required infrastructure, to access these reports from a simple user interface. We also include examples and scenarios for using this solution.

We include all scripts that make up this solution so that you will be able customize the solution according to your needs.

We anticipate that the solution covered in this book will provide great value for IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler and IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS customers who are planning to deploy a centralized job logging and browsing system.

Chapter 1. Overview and benefits
Chapter 2. Integrating OnDemand and IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Chapter 3. IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS implementation
Chapter 4. IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler Distributed implementation
Chapter 5. IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler end-to-end environment
Chapter 6. Reporting: IBM Content Manager user interface
Chapter 7. Administration of the solution
Appendix A. Scripts used in the solution
Appendix B. Flowcharts
Appendix C. Additional material

• IBM InfoSphere DataStage Data Flow and Job Design, SG24-7576-00
• PowerVM Virtualization on IBM System p: Introduction and Configuration Fourth Edition, SG24-7940-03
• IBM WebSphere Application Server V6.1 Security Handbook, SG24-6316-01

Publish Date
22 October 2003

Last Update
28 October 2003

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Author(s)

Vasfi Gucer is an IBM Certified Consultant IT Specialist working at the International Technical Support Organization, 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 also a Certified Tivoli Consultant.

• Vasfi Gucer

Cheryl Brown is an independent consultant for the IBM DB2 Content Manager OnDemand for Multiplatforms product. She is an IBM retiree who became a contractor working on the development of OnDemand education for seven years, beginning in 1996. In addition to education, she has also provided consulting to IBM customers both in the US and abroad.

• Cheryl Brown

Budi Darmawan is a Tivoli Specialist at the International Technical Support Organization, Austin Center. He writes extensively and teaches IBM classes worldwide on Tivoli, DB2 database, and OS/390. Before joining the ITSO in February 1999, he worked in IBM Global Services, Indonesia as the lead solution architect for Tivoli system management and business intelligence services. Budi is also a Tivoli Certified Instructor and a Tivoli Certified Enterprise Consultant.

• Budi Darmawan

Doroti Almeida Dias Garcia is IT Specialist working in Tivoli Customer Support in Brazil. She has three years of experience with Tivoli products, focusing on Tivoli Workload Scheduler and User Administration. She holds a degree in Mathematical Science and she has an MBA in E-Management Information Technology from Fundacao Getulio Vargas. Her areas of expertise includes the AIX operational system.

• Doroti Almeida Dias Garcia

Tina Lamacchia has been in the IT realm for 18 years. Her career started with programming, and then administrating hundreds of UNIX systems. She has been with Tivoli Systems for six years. She has worked with IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler for nine years as a customer and as an IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler advocate. Currently, she is working in the SWAT team in Austin to assist with sales of various deployments in IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler and all PACO products.

• Tina Lamacchia

Martin Pepper does EMEA pre-sales technical support for OnDemand for Multiplatforms and is based out of Warwick in the United Kingdom. He has four years of experience in the Content Management field. He holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of Manchester. Martin is an IBM certified AIX system administrator and a certified solution expert for OnDemand for Multiplatforms.

• Martin Pepper

Pete Soto is currently the L2 Senior Software Engineer for IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler. He has worked for IBM for nine years in training, implementing, and supporting IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler. He also supported the Tivoli Software Distribution and Tivoli Inventory products. He is Tivoli Certified for Tivoli Framework, Tivoli Software Distribution, Tivoli Inventory, and Tivoli Workload Scheduler. He has a BBA with a Major in Accounting and a Minor in Information Systems from the University of Texas at San Antonio.

• Pete Soto

Michael R. Tucci started with IBM Tivoli Software in Austin in 1999 as an L2 Software Engineer for IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler. He has done extensive travel to customer sites as well as spent time in Rome, Italy testing IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler 8.2 in a Windows environment. He also assisted with the completion of the IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler Installation Guide. Currently, he is responsible for Austin's L2's test environment with Windows, UNIX and Linux.

• Michael R. Tucci

Bob Watling is a Systems Management Technical Consultant based in the United Kingdom with more than 30 years of Systems Management experience. He has been the IBM representative at the UK-based OPC user group for more than 15 years and has accumulated a vast amount of knowledge and experience over this period of time in the area of batch management.

• Bob Watling

ISBN

0738453110

IBM Form Number
SG24-6629-00

Number of pages
272