Stirling Systems Group - Automating Operations with IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler

IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler automates, monitors, and controls the flow of work through your enterprise's entire IT infrastructure on both local and remote systems. From a single point of control, the suite analyzes the status of the production work and drives the processing of the workload according to installation business policies. It supports a multiple-end-user environment, enabling distributed processing and control across sites and departments within your enterprise.

IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler provides leading-edge solutions to problems in production workload management. It can automate, plan, and control the processing of your enterprise's entire production workload, not just the batch subset. The suite functions as an "automatic driver" for your production workload to maximize the throughput of work, and optimize your resources, but also allows you to intervene manually as required. When the suite interfaces with other system management products, it forms part of an integrated automation and systems management platform for your IT infrastructure.

Features	Advantages	Benefits
Integration with IBM Tivoli Business Systems Manager	IBM Tivoli Business Systems Manager is the solution to unifying the management of business systems	From IBM Tivoli Business Systems Manager, you can monitor the following: status changes to jobs, addition of jobs to the plan, alert conditions
Multiple Holiday Calendars	With this new function, you can choose whether a job stream or a command should use the default definition of workdays, based on the Holidays calendar	The free days calendar (where a free day is the opposite of a work day) now extends the role of the Holidays calendar
Free Day Rule	The free day rule is closely associated with the use of multiple ON and EXCEPT clauses in the scheduling language failure	The scheduler or operator can apply one or more of these options to a schedule to plan for the best suitable responsive actions if the schedule falls on an undesirable date
Authentication and encryption using SSL plus enhanced firewall support	These enhanced security features help to protect your workload scheduling environment from unauthorized users, plus allow you to manage workloads across firewalls	The added security enhancements help to maintain the integrity of your critical workloads and jobs.