Course Description

In the Tivoli Workload Scheduler 8.3 Scheduling and Operations course, students will gain an understanding of the ITWS 8.3 features, environment and new terminology. Students will be able to plan, implement, monitor and efficiently manage an TWS Production Day Plan. Students learn new features in TWS 8.3 and the Job Scheduling Console 8.3.

The course details the building of a plan by defining and documenting the plan objects and their properties. Job and job stream instances are designed using recovery options, external dependencies, prompts and other plan objects. The course provides skills to confidently integrate desired changes appropriate to the plan, jobs or job streams. Students develop valuable skills to optimize plans and methods of troubleshooting plan problems.

This training is done in a classroom environment with interspersed, hands-on laboratory opportunities to practice concepts by performing student exercises using real-world scenarios.

Class Length
3 days

Objectives

• Demonstrate how the TWS Engine has to be altered to handle the new plan
• Demonstrate the new capabilities of the redesigned modeling and planning layer
• Demonstrate the plan generator component
• Use the plan to display, select, and modify current production day job stream and job instance information
• Execute plan control commands (submit, reply, rerun, cancel, and kill)
• Demonstrate how to respond to prompts and job confirmations
• Explain the difference between hold;/release, release all, and release when used with prompt states
• Define TWS job stream objects: parameters, jobs, users, prompts, resources, and calendars
• Configure automated recovery options for a job
• Describe the affect of the production day and time zones on job streams
• List the steps necessary to plan a job and draw a Processing Flow Diagram and general Job Stream processing plan
• Create a job stream from database objects and configure job and job stream properties
• Add dependencies among jobs and job streams
• Describe the difference between creating a copy and Create Another object
• Demonstrate how to modify an object’s name
• Discover and solve basic job stream execution problems and plan problems
• Change workstation properties
• Stop and start TWS processing, link and unlink workstations, and explain the implications.
• Interact with TWS through global variables and utility commands (parms, release, switchmgr, and shutdown)
• View and print job stream documentation, job instance output, TWS standard reports, and export tables to a text file
• Demonstrate how to submit job streams and jobs in to the plan
• Describe how to use the CLI to backup databases
• Identify which user made changes to the database
• Define and demonstrate conman, composer, optman, and planman commands

Who will benefit from this course

This course is intended for the following:
New Tivoli Workload Scheduler users seeking proficiency in the TWS 8.3 environment on Unix and Windows platforms

Existing schedulers, operators and their supervisors/managers at sites converting from previous versions of Tivoli Workload Scheduler (Maestro) to Tivoli Workload Scheduler Suite 8.3

Anyone who needs detailed guidance on how to create Plans, monitor workload status, adjust workload parameters or submit Job Streams or Jobs to execute under the control of Tivoli Workload Scheduler Suite 8.3

Anyone needing a refresher course and introduction to the Job Scheduling Console

Required Skills Knowledge

The following skills and areas of knowledge are required:

• General computer literacy in a GUI environment.
• Basic understanding of production management and "batch processing" scheduling.
• Knowledge of current production job processing flow in the local environment where Tivoli Workload Scheduler will be implemented.
• Knowledge of file navigation, file editing, and command prompt actions for the operating system to be used (Unix or Windows).

Prerequisites
None

Course Outline

• Plan Monitoring and Management
• Scheduling Objects
• Job Stream Planning
• Creating Job Streams
• Plan Problem-Solving Approaches
• Submitting Additional Work
• Command-line and Other Utilities