Workstation destination

The various physical and logical locations where tasks are performed at your installation are represented in Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS by workstations. Each workstation groups related activities. Every operation in the application description database and the current plan is associated with a workstation. You define workstations in the workstation description database.

The destination field is one attribute of a workstation description. It identifies the system in your configuration that operations scheduled for this workstation should be submitted to. The field can contain the DD name of a submit/release data set, an XCF member name, the VTAM® LU of a tracker, or a user-defined destination.

If the destination field is not blank, the same name must also be present in the APPC, DASD, SNA, TCP, TCPIP, USER, or XCF keywords of the ROUTOPTS statement, depending on the connection method.

The destination field can also remain blank. A blank destination field means that operations at this workstation will be submitted by the controller or by a fault-tolerant agent, whose workstation type is FTA.

The operation-initiation exit, EQQUX009, handles the routing of the workload to user-defined destinations.