Scheduling Applications with IBM Workload Automation

Version 9.5 Fix Pack 7

Scheduling Applications with IBM Workload Automation provides information about how to set up and use IBM® Workload Scheduler job plug-ins and access methods.

Note: Some of the old plug-ins previously provided with the product, are now out-of-the-box integrations available on Automation Hub. The related documentation has been removed from the product library and has been made available on Automation Hub.

In addition to these job plug-ins, you can find new integrations on Automation Hub that extend your automation processes.

Plug-ins for the following applications:
- IBM BigInsights
- IBM Cognos
- Hadoop Distributed File System
- Hadoop Map Reduce
- Apache Oozie
- Informatica PowerCenter
- IBM InfoSphere DataStage
- Oracle E-Business Suite
- Salesforce
- SAP BusinessObjects BI
- SAP PI Channel
- IBM Sterling Connect:Direct
- IBM WebSphere MQ
- IBM Cloudant
- Apache Spark
- Amazon EC2
- IBM SoftLayer
- Microsoft Azure
Access methods that run and control jobs of the following applications:
- PeopleSoft
- SAP® R/3
- z/OS®

Important: In order to be entitled to use the access methods and plug-ins, you must have purchased at least one of the following offerings: IBM Workload Scheduler, IBM Workload Scheduler for Applications, or IBM Z Workload Scheduler Agent. See the IBM Workload Scheduler Download document for details: IBM Workload Scheduler download document. For information about the supported versions of the plug-ins and access methods, open the Data Integration report and select the Supported Software tab.

Do not install IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler for Applications, Version 8.6 on top of an IBM Workload Scheduler version 9.3 and later installation, which can cause problems when running jobs. IBM Workload Scheduler for Applications is no longer a separate installable component. All the access methods and plug-ins formerly included with IBM Workload Scheduler for Applications are now automatically included in the IBM Workload Scheduler Version 9.3 and later installation, which include more updated versions of the plug-ins with respect to IBM Workload Scheduler for Applications, Version 8.6.