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Running event-driven workload automation

Event-driven workload automation adds the capability to perform on-demand workload automation in addition to plan-based job scheduling. It provides the capability to define rules that can trigger on-demand workload automation.

The object of event-driven workload automation in Tivoli® Workload Scheduler is to carry out a predefined set of actions in response to events that occur on nodes running Tivoli Workload Scheduler (but also on non-Tivoli Workload Scheduler ones, when you use the sendevt command line). This implies the capability to submit workload and run commands on the fly, notify users via email, or send messages to Tivoli Enterprise Console.

The main tasks of event-driven workload automation are:
Trigger the execution of batch jobs and job streams based on the reception or combination of real time events.
Reply to prompts
Notify users when anomalous conditions occur in the Tivoli Workload Scheduler scheduling environment or batch scheduling activity.
Invoke an external product when a particular event condition occurs.
Event-driven workload automation is based upon the concept of event rule. In Tivoli Workload Scheduler an event rule is a scheduling object that includes the following items:
Events
Event-correlating conditions
Actions
When you define an event rule, you specify one or more events, a correlation rule, and the one or more actions that are triggered by those events. Moreover, you can specify validity dates, a daily time interval of activity, and a common time zone for all the time restrictions that are set.
The events that Tivoli Workload Scheduler can detect for action triggering can be:
Internal events
They are events involving Tivoli Workload Scheduler internal application status and changes in the status of Tivoli Workload Scheduler objects. Events of this category can be job or job stream status changes, critical jobs or job streams being late or canceled, and workstation status changes.

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LATEOPER - When an operation in the current plan becomes late,
EQQE027I is issued for an operation at a general workstation,
EQQE037I for an operation at a computer or printer workstation.