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.
About this task
Use the WebSphere® Customization Toolbox 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:
The job manager allows you to asynchronously
administer job submissions. You can perform the following tasks:
For more information, read the Administering nodes using the job manager article in the information center.
Procedure
- Print a copy of the customization worksheet.
- Fill out the worksheet as described in z/OS customization variables: Job managers.
- Save the worksheet for use during job manager customization.