Whilst it may not be immediately obvious, the automated batch scheduler is the most business critical application that an organisation will use - and yet it is often the application that the organisation spends the least amount of effort maintaining.
Pressures on today's data processing (DP) environment are making it increasingly difficult to maintain the same level of service to customers. Many installations find that their batch window is shrinking. More critical jobs must be finished before the morning online work begins. Conversely, requirements for the integrated availability of online services during the traditional batch window put pressure on the resources available for processing the production workload. Increasing by 7 days a week, 24 hours a day is not only a DP objective but a requirement.
Users and owners of DP services are also making more use of batch services than ever before. The batch workload tends to increase each year at a rate slightly below the increase in the online workload. Combine this with the increase in data use by batch jobs, and the end result is a significant increase in the volume of work.
Furthermore, there is a shortage of people with the required skills to operate and manage increasingly complex DP environments. The complex interrelationships between production activities, between manual and machine tasks, have become unmanageable without a workload management tool.
IBM Workload Automation
IBM Workload Automation is the state-of-the-art production workload manager, designed to help you meet your present and future data processing challenges. Its scope encompasses your entire enterprise information system, including heterogeneous environments.
Features:
Powerful and intuitive dashboard; enable the integration of data transfer operations in workflows using a modernized interface for data-driven decisions. Customization is easy with built-in widgets, including monitoring and support for data from any REST API.
Self-service automation; use catalogs and services to submit routine business tasks, running and monitoring processes on demand from a mobile device.
Anomaly detection in workloads; leverage AI-powered historical data analysis providing anomaly detection for the overall workload or selected jobs.
Managed file transfer capabilities; easily move files and streamline modeling of the automation workflows with the new Workload Designer, part of the Dynamic Workload Console.
Full observability of business applications; experience the capability to log Workload Automation events based on open standards for consumption by the IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps and Instana.
Easily define workflows; the Workload Designer provides a modeling user interface that provides a unified access point to design every scheduling object with improved contextual help and graphical views.
With 25 years experience of delivering IBM Workload Automation solutions, and as subject matter experts in IBM licensing and subscriptions, Elyzium is well placed to assist you on your IBM Workload Automation journey. Contact us to learn more.
