Tivoli Dynamic Workload Broker

Ideally suited to a grid environment and working across multiple platforms including UNIX, Linux and Windows, TDWB uses resource pools to shift workload in order to achieve the most efficient workload.  This is particularly beneficial when confronting unplanned changes in the underlying IT infrastructure, for example server failures, which would ordinarily significantly impact batch processing and result in failure to meet SLA and OLA targets.  By dynamically adapting to these changes, TDWB will re-route workload to unaffected servers providing an added level of resilience to your scheduling environment.

This dynamic brokering process also enables you to utilise spare server capacity thereby negating the requirement for additional hardware – reducing capital expenditure and facilitating savings on maintenance and energy consumption. As TDWB’s technology is predicated on Open Web Service and Java it is able to interface with virtually any business application or middleware.

Tivoli Dynamic Workload Broker:-

•  Manages the automatic discovery of computers available in the scheduling domain with their attributes.

• Manages the matching of jobs to appropriate resources based on job requirements and resource attributes.

• Manages the job dispatching to target resources, both physical and virtual, that are capable of running the job.

• Optimises the use of IT resources.

• Manages resource consumption of a job based on the quantities that it is planned to use while running.

• Optionally allocates the required quantity exclusively to the job while it is running.

• Releases the resources as soon as the job terminates for use by other waiting jobs.

• Uses the common agent services infrastructure to provide an agent that simplifies the administration and deployment of the scheduling components on the endpoint systems that are targets for the jobs.

• Provides an easy-to-use Web user interface for managing the scheduling activities.

• Integrates seamlessly with Tivoli Workload Scheduler (8.2.1 and later) and Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS end-to-end (8.2 and later), enabling full control from Tivoli Workload Scheduler of job submission and lifecycle.

• Users are able to manage from Tivoli Workload Scheduler the calendar-based triggering and choreography of flow of jobs that are run by Tivoli Dynamic Workload Broker.

• Integrates scheduling functions and services in the IBM Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) common programming model

As with the rest of the Tivoli Automation Portfolio, Portal Partnership will only recommend the use of TDWB within an environment where it is appropriate as part of an overall Tivoli Workload solution. We approach each project without pre-conceived ideas so that we are able to design and implement a solution that best suites your specific requirements. To best achieve this, we actively seek to work as an integrated member of your team ensuring that we deliver a solution that not only exceeds your expectations but one that you are fully conversant with when our consultants leave site.

Due to our experience, not only in TDWB, but also in batch scheduling, we are ideally placed to advise customers on how to get the most out of their implementation, which can often lead to saving time and / or money in either processing or licensing costs.

Our Services in TDWB include base implementation, education (Official IBM courses or Portal Partnership bespoke) and support.