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14. Cisco Workload Automation Adapter for z/OS
Adapter Overview
Mainframe Business Processing in a Distributed Environment
Managing z/OS batch processes is a mission-critical function in enterprise businesses. IT data centers now
include a growing number of applications running on a wide range of highly distributed devices, but mainframe
batch schedulers cannot manage enterprise-wide workflow processes and workflow automation needs.
Integrating, automating, and managing business-critical applications is a difficult, expensive, and time-
consuming operation, but a proven, scalable product—Cisco Workload Automation—can deliver enterprise-wide
automation and integrate z/OS jobs and dependencies, even from the most demanding IT infrastructures.
Integrating Mainframe Applications Automation into the Enterprise
Cisco Workload Automation for z/OS brings the power of business process automation to IBM mainframe batch
processing and links it to the entire enterprise-computing environment. This industry-leading product can create,
manage, and monitor jobs and job dependencies among z/OS environments and a wide range of databases
and application resources, while bringing expanded functionality to z/OS batch processing.
IT operations staff can leverage the scheduler’s capabilities, such as exception-based management, fault
tolerance, and a high-degree of scalability for z/OS-based jobs. This easy-to-use platform gives users the ability
to monitor and interact with all types of batch jobs, even if they have been defined using other mainframe
schedulers. More importantly, users gain the ability to integrate mainframe jobs into larger business workflows
that involve enterprise resource planning (ERP), business intelligence, and extract, transform, and load (ETL)
processes running on a wide variety of operating systems—even in service-oriented architecture (SOA)
environments. Data files from partners and supplier can also be managed and integrated into z/OS jobs, and job
dependencies originating from anywhere in the enterprise can be defined and managed via a single pane of
glass.
Cisco Workload Automation for z/OS
Workload Automation for z/OS has two components. Each component is an independent entity that offers
different functions.
The first component is an OS-level agent running under OpenMVS that uses UNIX System Services (USS)
provided by the z/OS operating system. Via the agent, Workload Automation can submit jobs, run system
commands, and execute programs and shell scripts. The agent transfers output to Cisco Workload Automation
and manages file dependencies for files and datasets.