IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler

Operation Planning and Control ( OPC) is a system that should make unnecessary ( as an idea ) the use of operators in the computer or severely restrict originally. This potential " human error " should be avoided as far as possible.

The OPC system enables the planner ( planning engineer ) the daily operations on an IBM computer system in a position to plan the necessary program or job processes to be considered including the dependencies of jobs to each other on a year in advance, whereby these jobs start automatically and automatically release the start of the next job or the next dependent application with error-free end ( grouping several jobs).

There are different ways of scheduling in the OPC. Thus, using rules to specify that an application for as daily, weekly, starts every third Wednesday of the month or every working day in the calendar week 40. Fixed data for the start can be controlled via a calendar. Likewise, a particular event from start to start.

Mid-1990s, the bundled IBM Tivoli system management software in the subsidiary. The OPC software was thereby renamed IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler (TWS ). These can run on the following platforms and topologies:

  • Mainframe: IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z / OS;
  • UNIX, Linux or Windows server: IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler;
  • Enterprise software such as SAP, Oracle or PeopleSoft: IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler for Applications;
  • Meshed or dynamic networks: IBM Tivoli Dynamic Workload Broker.
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