Business benefits
| Features | Advantages | Benefits |
|---|---|---|
| Centralized workload control and management | Manages a high number of heterogeneous application and system tasks, workload activities and services enterprise-wide from a single point of control | Improves workload coordination, workload velocity and operations control. Helps to better align IT with business objectives to improve performance and reduce costs |
| Web based operations console | Single point of control for cross enterprise workloads | Improves ability to proactively monitor and manage workloads by exception, and to create production run time reports |
| Service driven delivery of workload schedules and plans | Transforms batch processing from purely time and calendar driven schedules to dynamic event driven schedules | Increased business and IT flexibility through dynamic, on demand execution of workloads according to desired service levels |
| Extensive workload planning facilities | Create simple or complex workload schedules and plans to drive cross enterprise workloads according to business policies and service levels | Centrally create, control and deploy workload schedules and plans throughout the enterprise, and to resolve cross application and system dependencies |
| Extensive workload modeling and forecasting facilities | Models and forecasts time driven and event driven workload plans, prior to execution | Provides impact analysis of changes to plans and workloads while reducing trial and error production changes |
| Service oriented architecture with J2EE/J2SE and Web Services APIs | Integrate batch workloads with composite business processes, and provides a flexible workload automation deployment and run time environment | Publish workload plans to web services registries for re-use throughout the enterprise, integrate batch and online processes, and consolidate workload automation across many legacy, custom or packaged business application |
| High scalability and fault tolerance | Reliably scales to drive enterprise level heterogeneous production workloads | Ensures your workload automation backbone scales as your business scales, and workloads are executed even during unplanned incidences with built-in redundancies and recovery processes |
| Authentication and encryption using SSL plus enhanced firewall support | Protects workload schedules, plans and execution from unauthorized users, and allows you to manage workloads across firewalls | Improves your ability to maintain the integrity of critical business and IT workloads |
| Integration with Tivoli Enterprise Portal and Tivoli Monitoring | Tivoli Monitoring proactively monitors business applications and the IT infrastructure through a single, customizable portal, the Tivoli Enterprise Portal | Improves proactive monitoring by combining cross enterprise workload exceptions with other cross enterprise systems management exceptions, and allows Tivoli Monitoring alerts to trigger workload schedules and plans |
| Integration with Tivoli Business Systems Manager | Tivoli Business Systems Manager provides an enterprise wide view of service performance against key performance indicators | Enhanced proactive monitoring of workload performance within a composite business service context, and against key performance indicators and goals |
| Integration with Tivoli Monitoring | Tivoli Monitoring proactively monitors business applications and the IT infrastructure through a single, customizable portal | Easily monitor and manage enterprise-wide workloads |
| Integration with Tivoli Storage Manager | Tivoli Storage Manager protects enterprise wide data from incidences and outright failures | Centrally control and manage complex storage backup schedules, and coordinate backup schedules with other IT and business application workload schedules and plans |
| Integration with Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms | Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms provides policy based high availability and disaster recovery automation | Ensures high availability of service execution by providing automatic detection of incidences and failover of workload automation components or the entire workload automation network |
IBM® Tivoli Workload Scheduler helps you establish an enterprise workload automation backbone by driving composite workloads according to business policies. It provides leading edge automation capabilities to control the processing of your enterprise's entire production workload, including batch and online services. Tivoli Workload Scheduler functions as an "automatic driver" for composite workloads to maximize the velocity of workloads, optimize IT resource usage, and resolve workload dependencies. It extends the scope for integrated application and systems management by driving workloads on multiple, heterogeneous platforms and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems.
According to business needs or organizational structure, distributed and z/OS components can be used in a mix of configurations for a completely distributed workload automation environment, a completely z/OS environment, or a two mixed “End-to-End” z/OS® and distributed environment. The Tivoli Workload Scheduler for Applications component extends Tivoli Workload Scheduler to automate workloads on ERP systems and non-native platforms.
Tivoli Workload Scheduler also provides high scalability, availability and performance to minimize idle time, improve throughput and ensure mission critical workloads are managed efficiently and reliably
Tivoli Workload Scheduler:
Has a proven track record of scaling beyond 300,000 multi-step workloads a day in real customer production environments. This allows enterprises to scale from small to large environments, and to execute critical services day after day.
Provides both calendar based and event based workload automation. This allows enterprises greater flexibility and innovation when moving from a static, platform-based view of production workloads to a dynamic service-driven environment.
Provides a central point to view and manage composite workloads to fine tune performance and to handle exceptions. This allows enterprises to easily create production reports and to generate alerts based on workload, application or system events.
Provides open, standards based API’s . This allows enterprises to extend workload automation control to custom and legacy applications to easily build composite batch services, integrate batch services with online services, or to fully automate all composite workloads including both batch and online services.
Leverages a service oriented architecture based on IBM WebSphere® components. This allows enterprises to control J2EE workloads and Web Services invocations, and manage dependencies between online and batch services.
Leverages IBM DB2 or allows for the use of Oracle Database.
Provides standards based integration with grid computing technologies, enabling enterprises to leverage existing investments while dispatching and managing batch workloads across high performance computing grids.
Provides integration with other Tivoli products for monitoring workload automation events in a business context, or for additional autonomic capabilities.
What's new
Tivoli Dynamic Workload Console – A new Web-based console that provides a single point of operational control for the workload automation infrastructure
Advanced event based filtering and triggering automation to align workloads with business demands and policies
Trial and forecast planning through the Tivoli Dynamic Workload Console for fine-tuning workloads and resource usage, to generate reports and to manage by exception
Agentless technology for increased flexibility in smaller, low volume environments
Ability to submit SAP workloads through the Tivoli Dynamic Workload Console for consistent control over mixed workloads
Integration with Tivoli Enterprise Portal to monitor workload exceptions with a wide range of systems management events
The Tivoli Workload Automation Family
IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler is a key element in a comprehensive, on demand, Tivoli Dyamic Workload Automation Family Portfolio which also includes:
IBM Tivoli Dynamic Workload Broker for dynamic matching of workloads to best available resources within mainstream enterprise and Grid scheduling networks
IBM Tivoli Dynamic Workload Console provides a single point of control for System z workloads or enterprise-wide workloads in end-to-end environments
IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler for Applications for extensive IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler integration with SAP, Oracle and PeopleSoft business applications
IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS for mainframe and integrated end-to-end enterprise workload scheduling
IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler LoadLeveler for highly scaleable parallel computing capabilities in High Performance Computing and Grid scheduling networks
IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler for Virtualized Data Centers for providing integration between IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler and Open Grid Services Architecture
