Planning for job managers

A job manager allows you to submit administrative jobs asynchronously for application servers registered to administrative agents and for deployment managers. You can submit these jobs to a large number of servers over a geographically dispersed area.

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Use the WebSphere Customization Tools or the zpmt command and the customization jobs that they generate to configure a job manager on z/OS. The job manager does not have to run on the same system as the nodes that it manages.

After the job manager is up and running, you can make the following types of servers known to a job manager through a registration process:
  • Application servers registered to administrative agents

    You can register standalone application server nodes with an administrative agent. You can then register one or more of the nodes with a job manager.

  • Deployment managers
After you register the servers, you can queue administrative jobs directed at the application servers or deployment managers through the job manager.
The job manager allows you to asynchronously administer job submissions. You can perform the following tasks:
  • Set a job submission to take effect at a specified time.
  • Set a job submission to expire at a specified time.
  • Schedule a job submission to occur at a specified time interval.
  • Notify the administrator through e-mail that a job has completed.

For more information, read the "Administering nodes using the job manager" article in the information center.

Procedure

  1. Print a copy of the customization worksheet.
  2. Fill out the worksheet as described in z/OS customization variables: Job managers.
  3. Save the worksheet for use during job manager customization.



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