The Dynamic Workload Console (DWC) has become a core platform for workload automation, providing visibility into everything all in one place.“The designing of a job stream is a key operation for schedulers and application developers to or interconnect business applications and achieve governance and control,” Zaccone said. “Our idea with the new Workload Designer is to empower what we had and push it to an advanced level to provide everything is needed to our customers.” 

CyberArk is an identity and access manager offering a wide set of identity security capabilities. You can use it to submit Workload Automation jobs without specifying any passwords, which are retrieved from the CyberArk vault.

After the biggest launch of Workload Automation 10.0.1 release in 1Q of 2022 (see the Workload automation original Video), what can we expect in 2022? Big news! Our first release refreshing for Dynamic Workload Console 10.0.1 is ready. Let’s answer the 5 WH questions.

The Observability is the evolution of monitoring into a process that offers insight into digital business applications, speeds innovation and enhances customer experience, basically it is an emerging set of practices, platforms, and tools that goes beyond monitoring to provide insight into the internal state of systems by analyzing external outputs.

Organizations now are looking towards AI intelligence to help operators avoid manual operations, whether it’s due to the sheer number of alerts that they’re getting that are contributing to “alert fatigue” or the lack of observability of how the organization is working.

HCL Workload Automation is a unified automation platform that covers all angles right from application management, cloud transition, migration, and system integration operation services, thereby facilitating the delivery of more automated and responsive service to drive value to business, end users, and IT. This paves the perfect way for future-proof and hybrid/Multi cloud enabled one-stop automation shop.

Workload automation is a critical piece of digital transformation. It can enable practitioners to schedule and execute business process workflows, optimize data transfer and processing, and cut down on errors and delays in the execution of the business processes themselves. 

In this Blog , we would look at how a team wanting to Integrate with Hadoop for running a Map Reduce Program could go about checking the pre-requisites from Hadoop Side and also go about then defining a Hadoop Map Reduce Job type to achieve this integration .

Upgrading the version of the relational database used by Workload Automation is always a customer pain point, but you could discover the secret to survive the version changes for Oracle flavor with no downtime.

HCL Software is pleased to announce a new release for Workload Automation, Version 10. With HCL Workload Automation Orchestrate complex workflows across multiple platforms and applications with best-in-class automation solution. Boost your business with the most advanced workload scheduling, managed file transfer, and real-time monitoring capabilities for continuous automation. Keep control on your automation processes from a single point of access and monitoring!

Workload Automation on z/OS allows users  to use a single point of control and monitoring of complex workflows.Thanks to the integration with a Chat Tool, starting from release v10.1, you’ll be able to empower Workload Automation on Z to send notifications about incidents and share information with your DevOps team members on chat platform (such as Slack, Mattermost or Teams).

Are you working with Axway SecureTransport and would you like an easy way to perform your operations? We have what you are looking for!

A JIRA plug-in is a new EDWA action plugin to open tickets, that eliminates manual efforts and speed up resolution greatly. It is a work management tool which offers functionalities to help the users to manage their work efficiently.

Let us begin with understanding of Google Cloud dataflow what it is all about before moving to our GCP Cloud Dataflow plugin and how it benefits to our workload automation users.

In this Blog, we would go through a Regulatory Compliance UseCase where a Customer wanting to perform a Transaction at a Gaming Kiosk undergoes a series of Background Checks and Validations to know if he is eligible to proceed with the Transaction, the checks while happening in the background through HCL Workload Automation in real time within a few seconds would seamlessly allow the Customer to proceed with the Transaction. Incase the Customer is blacklisted then he is blocked from performing the Transaction, likewise incase there is suspicion of Money Laundering, the Customer is blocked from progressing with the Transaction.

HCL Workload Automation (HWA) seamlessly orchestrate complex workflows across multiple platforms and applications, allowing our customer to extend the outreach of automation to different domains, including RPA, ERP processes and cloud orchestration.

With Workload Automation it is possible to automate and orchestrate the entire process, providing real time business intelligence, analyzing end-user’s transaction behavior, and therefore keeping the business operation of the Bank efficient.

We are excited to announce that HCL Automation Power Suite has made its debut in Enterprise Management Associate’s Workload Automation report for 2021 and has been named as a value leader.

In this blog, we would look at how a team wanting to Build a New SAP Application Server and SAP DB Server based on an existing SAP Application Server and SAP DB Server can leverage HWA to achieve the same. We would be using SAP LAMA APIs exposed from SAP Side to achieve the same.

We are excited to announce that HCL Software has been listed as Representative Vendor for the second year in a row in 2021 GartnerMarket Guide for Service Orchestration and Automation Platforms report.  HCL Workload Automation (HWA) indeed seamlessly orchestrates complex workflows across multiple platforms and applications. HWA boosts customer’s business with the most advanced jobs scheduling, management, and monitoring capabilities for continuous automation and orchestration. 

This Blog aims to showcase how a Company using HWA and maintaining all its Application Code on GIT alongwith all Scheduling Objects could also promote and manage the entire Code Promotion using HWA while also tracking the Whole Process on Service Now.

Let us begin with understanding of Google Cloud Function plugin and how it benefits our workload automation users.

Let us begin with understanding of Azure what it is all about before moving to our Azure Databricks plugin and how it benefits our workload automation users.

In this Blog, we would go through a UseCase to demonstrate a Customer wanting to Track his Application Deployment through Service Now uses HWA to accomplish the same while also orchestrating the entire flow of Application Deployment and Service Now Ticketing Orchestration through HWA :

Are you planning to migrate from an old legacy automation solution to a more robust and technological advanced automation solution? Introducing HCL EasyMove, the fast and easy way to migrate to HCL Workload Automation (HWA). Automate beyond boundaries and orchestrate the ecosystem around your business-critical processes with HCL Workload Automation.  

Digital transformation is imperative for all businesses and is providing them with more agile and efficient capabilities by absorbing the changes and opportunities of a mix of digital technologies.  Nowadays, this transformation is driven by innovative business models focusing on achieving customer delight through IT-enabled solutions and services that are in fact translating into business growth and resiliency against market disruption.

HCL Software's cloud-first architecture and deployment make your cloud native journey easy. Unlock the full potential of your software by the technical experts who have created the solution. 

This Blog aims to showcase how we can use HCL Workload Automation to Implement a Request Management Workflow for a repeated task for a Service Line and how the complete request can be managed End to End through HWA.

Now that we have talked about the Business User & Scheduler’s Perspective in our previous blog post, this part will focus on the Operator’s perspective and the overall application architecture. 

At HCL Software we introduce to you HCL SoFy, the easiest way to deploy your HCL Software products in Kubernetes in minutes. Browse our extensive catalog of enterprise software products and rest APIs to develop rich and more powerful applications with enduring value. 

In this blog, we are going to take you through a quick Fireside chat with HCL Workload Automation's Chief Software Architect, Franco Mossotto talking more about HCL Workload Automation and HCL software's cloud native approach​.

Azure is an open and flexible cloud platform that enables you to quickly build, deploy and manage applications across a global network of Microsoft-managed datacentres. You can build applications using any language, tool, or framework. And you can integrate your public cloud applications with your existing IT environment.”Azure is incredibly flexible, and allows you to use multiple languages, frameworks, and tools to create the customised applications that you need. As a platform, it also allows you to scale applications up with unlimited servers and storage

Oracle E-Business Suite as the name suggests is a suite of several application software mainly consisting of enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), and supply-chain management (SCM) with the Oracle relational database management system (RDBMS) at its very core. Oracle E-Business Suite is one of the most popular solutions out there. Globally organizations use it to streamline their business processes and manage their day-to-day transactions and ultimately reduce costs and bring more efficiency.

​In this blog, we are going to walk you through enabling session affinity for the Dynamic Workload Console (console) deployed in a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster that uses an HTTP(S) load balancer network service that leverages an instance of Google Cloud SQL for SQL Server managed database. In a GKE cluster environment, a backend service defines how the HTTP(S) cloud load balancing network service distributes incoming traffic. By default, the method for distributing new connections uses a hash calculated based on five pieces of information: The client's IP address.The source port.The load balancer's internal forwarding rule IP address.The destination port.The protocol. ​You can modify the traffic distribution method for HTTP(S) traffic by specifying a session affinity option.

We, the Workload Automation family, love to take care of every detail. Indeed, we strongly believe that to deliver a good quality product we need to increase our knowledge every day more by discovering and studying new technologies.But the technical part is not the only important thing, we take care of the whole product, which means presentations, blogs, videos, documentation, client advocacy, design thinking, skill transfer, etc.To achieve these goals, effective collaboration and knowledge sharing are at the core. Thus, we arrange a lot of knowledge sharing programs, such as “WA Talks” and “Lunch&Learn”.

As a matter of fact, the deployment of Workload Automation (WA) to a Microsoft Azure cluster makes the implementation of the WA topology 10 times faster and 10 times more scalable compared to the same deployment to the classic on-premises platform, as is the case for Red Hat OpenShift, AWS EKS, Kubernetes and so on. The WA deployment to an Azure cluster can leverage all well-known cloud benefits.

SAP is the backbone of thousands of companies worldwide: its end-to-end suite of applications and services enables business and public customers across 25 industries globally to operate.Enterprise resource planning is one of the strongest areas covered by SAP to take all the core processes needed to run a company – finance, HR, manufacturing, supply chain – and integrate them into a single system.​Companies though are complex ecosystems that need to interconnect IT and business processes, while reducing their need for human intervention.Automation is key to achieve governance, boost agility and enable a true digital transformation process, impacting all the business units.

Automate anything, Run Anywhere is our motto!What better place to start making it real than from our very own Workload Automation test environment?We have been applying it in our Test Lab for Workload Automation version 9.5 since its general availability in 2019, and to all the subsequent fix packs, including the last one, fix pack 3.

To improve productivity and to save IT management costs and time, our customers are starting to move to the cloud environment and are moving heavy workloads from a set of on-premises machines to a resilient cloud infrastructure. So, our principal mission is to facilitate, secure, and support moving a workload automation deployment, from an on-premises infrastructure (minimum WA 95 FP3 version required) to any cloud infrastructure where Workload Automation (WA) is already supported.Link for the video guide: https://youtu.be/7AQHgCnpqLc

A question which everyone would have in mind while Upgrading to WA 9.5 is to manage all the Carryforwards that are present in old Production Plan on the older Version of the Master and to migrate them to the newer Master Server . This Blog aims to sort this problem once and for all to ensure seamless transition to IWS 9.5 without any hassles .As you would already know if you are reading this Blog that WA 9.5 comes with a whole set of New Features and most noticeable Change Architecturally is to move to Liberty as a Middleware in place of Websphere Application Server, JazzSM for both the Engine as well the DWC Profile.

Let us begin with understanding of Azure what it is all about before moving to our Azure Resource Manager plugin and how it benefits our workload automation users. Azure is incredibly flexible, and allows you to use multiple languages, frameworks, and tools to create the customised applications that you need. As a platform, it also allows you to scale applications up with unlimited servers and storage.

As human beings, we have always been fascinated by the unknown, and we need to understand it, interpret it, and draw results from it. Today, however, living in an increasingly hyper-technological, interconnected world, where we collect billions and billions of information and data, we have difficulty because our ability to acquire data exceeds our ability to give meaning to it. Besides data itself, visualization becomes crucial in driving the root cause analysis, explaining concepts, and extracting useful insights from data. Also, visualization can help provide data that is understandable by non-data experts.

Zowe and its major components Web UI, API Mediation Layer, and CLI, are likely to become the new interface for the next generation of mainframers.The Zowe framework is the bridge that connects modern applications with the mainframe by providing easier interoperability and scalability among products and solutions offered by multiple vendors. Developers, testers, operators, and any other professional in the mainframe realm can easily create their tools to automate those tasks that usually would be done manually or through mainframe-native tools. They can build, modify, and debug z/OS applications even with limited z/OS expertise.

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) is a managed service that provides message delivery from publishers to subscribers (also known as producers and consumers). Publishers communicate asynchronously with subscribers by sending messages to a topic, which is a logical access point and communication channel. Clients can subscribe to the SNS topic and receive published messages using a supported protocol, such as Amazon SQS, AWS Lambda, HTTP, email, mobile push notifications, and mobile text messages.

Let us understand first about AWS Simple Queue Service (SQS), how Amazon SQS works, it is a fully managed message queuing service that enables you to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications.

Before moving into Blue Prism plugin, let us understand what it is all and how it is benefits our workload automation users.Note: Blue Prism is an experimental plugin in our Automation Hub and it may support limited features.

The SAP batch access method enables communication between an external SAP system and Workload Automation and provides a single point of entry for automating the launching of jobs, monitoring the status of jobs, and managing exceptions and recovery.“ …Which are the steps you need to follow to setup faster your Workload Automation environment to the target SAP system?...”

Are you familiar with docker-compose in the Workload Automation (WA) deployment process? It’s about time you started using it to deploy Workload Automation containers. The 3 “S” joint venture of WA, along with Docker Compose, stand by the following slogans: Simplicity?Not more than 5 steps. Speed?Just enough time for a coffee break. Security?No worries, we take care of everything.

​Using Workload Automation integrated with SAP®, you can create, schedule, and control SAP jobs and monitoring you SAP landscape. SAP jobs run on application servers that host work processes of type batch. Critical batch jobs are run in specific time frames, on specific application servers. With SAP Basis version 6.10 and later, application servers can be assigned to server groups. With Workload Automation, you can assign a server group to a job and leveraging the Job Throttling feature it can manages all SAP background processes from several applications on one or more servers in heterogeneous environments. In this way, when a job is launched, the SAP system runs it on an application server that belongs to the specified group, balancing the workload among the various application servers.

Event Rules are an extension of Workload Automation (WA) capabilities that enable events occurring external to the scheduling environment to trigger actions on scheduling objects within WA. An ideal use of this capability is to detect the arrival of a file and then trigger an action to submit a Job Stream containing jobs to process the data contained in that file. This capability has been available for a while and is widely used. In this article, a hidden feature is explored where the name of the file and other properties related to the file are passed as variables to a Variable Table associated to the Job Stream being submitted as ac action where any Job within that Job Stream can retrieve those variables and process the data in the file

Waiting for a file to arrive before a job can start processing it is the most common and quintessential requirement for any workload automation tool. Historically, this was done by creating a File dependency using OPENS and Unix tricks to manage wild cards and multiple matching files. Then Event Driven Workload Automation was introduced where an Event Rule could monitor a file with wild cards and when the condition was satisfied the dependent Job Stream was submitted. %

Are you curious to try out the "Automation Anywhere" plugin? Download the integrations from the Automation Hub and get started today. Visit https://yourautomationhub.io.

The HCL Workload Automation GCP Cloud Storage plugin is here. Learn how it benefits our workload automation users.

Can’t get enough of automating your business processes? We have what you are looking for!  The Ansible plug-in is available on Automation Hub, download it to empower your Workload Automation environment.  

"You may not be responsible for the situation you are in, but you will become responsible if you do nothing to change it." Cit. Martin Luther King.Get ready to accelerate your business by simplifying and automating workloads, improving service level agreements and reducing deployment and management time with your Cloud Transformation!

Let us begin with understanding of AWSCloudformation what it is all about before moving to our AWSCloudformation plugin and how it is benefits to our workload automation users.

Customers using Oracle Human Resources Cloud face the challenge of continuous bulk loading of large amounts of data at regular intervals.

A customer-centric company is more than a company that offers good customer service.Customer-centric is our HCL Software business philosophy based on putting our customers first and at the core of business in order to provide a positive experience and build long-term relationships.

Oracle Data Integrator provides a fully unified solution for building, deploying, and managing complex data warehouses or as part of data-centric architectures in a SOA or business intelligence environment.

Do you need to create, delete, update a lot of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) projects? Maybe the sheer volume or the need to standardize project operation is making you look for a way to automate project managing. We now have a tool to simplify this process for you.

HCL Software announced the introduction of HCL Automation Power Suite bundle offering comprising of HCL Workload Automation, HCL Clara and HCL HERO. With Automation Power Suite, customers can automate more, automate better and automate smarter to build an enterprise automation platform.

This blog aims to show how SAP Calendar Import could be done through Workload Automation. Workload Automation as a product has ready made integration with SAP since the 90’s leveraging the SAP RFC Libraries of SAP using the SAP R/3 Batch Access Method.  Now , we would see how we can use this same access method to import Freeday Calendars or Workday Calendars from an SAP R/3 System into Workload Automation.  The r3batch access method can be invoked from TWS/methods Directory(in the older versions) or from the TWSDATA/methods directory in the Newer versions . The export can be for both Freeday Calendars as well as Workday Calendars. The below example is an export of a Freeday Calendar referenced by the Factory Calendar ID 02 exported into a text file /tmp/calendar_03.dat with the name HLI :  wauser@wa-server:/opt/wa/TWS/methods$ ./r3batch -t RSC -c S4HANAR3BW -- " -calendar_id 02 -year_from 2020 -year_to 2021 -tws_name HLI -getfreedays -filename '/tmp/calendar_03.dat' "  Tue Mar 10 09:48:58 2020  -t RSC represents that the import is for an RFC SAP Calendar.  -c CalendarName represents that the Calendar name which is imported from the specific SAP System.  -calendar_id XX denotes a 2 Character identifier of the SAP R/3 Calendar to be imported.  -year_from XXXX denotes the Start year from which to start exporting the dates.  -year_to XXXX denotes the End Year upto which you can export dates.  -getfreedays indicates that the export is for Freedays.  -filename ‘<PATH>/CalendarFileName’ indicates the name of the file to which export is to be done on the Host OS where you are issuing the command.  The exported Calendar can be viewed in the File as shown below :  wauser@wa-server:/opt/wa/TWS/methods$ cat /tmp/calendar_03.dat  $CALENDAR  HLI    ""    01/01/2020 01/04/2020 01/05/2020 01/11/2020 01/12/2020 01/18/2020 01/19/2020    01/25/2020 01/26/2020 02/01/2020 02/02/2020 02/08/2020 02/09/2020 02/15/2020    02/16/2020 02/22/2020 02/23/2020...

Don't get left behind! The new era of digital transformation of businesses has moved on to new operating models such as containers and cloud orchestration. Let’s find out how to get the best of Workload Automation (WA) by deploying the solution on a cloud-native environment such as Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). 

Before knowing about our plugin use cases and how it benefits to our workload automation users, let us have little insight about what is SAP HANA LCM Cloud Platform. 

Can you have your desired number of Workload Automation (WA) agent, server and console instances running whenever and wherever? Yes, you can!  Starting from the Workload Automation version 9.5 fix pack 2, you can deploy the server, console and dynamic agent by using Openshift 4.2 or later version platforms.

Are you familiar with Automation Hub! It is the time. Data! We have enough data to process. Analyze! We have multiple software and algorithms to analyze and process the data. 

How important is that your Workload Automation environment is healthy, up and running, and there are no workload stops or delays? What happens if your Master Domain Manager becomes unavailable or it is affected by downtime?  What manual recovery solution you must do when it happens?

No matter if your environment is based on rock solid z/OS controller or on light weight and easily scalable docker instances, or if your distributed, on premises master and backup master are rocking your workload as fire and water.  Earth, wind, water and fire… if you want to have control over each element you need the fifth spirt: your custom dashboard!  It’s easy to create and customize your dashboard to have control over every single important aspect for you and your organization at a glance.  Each dashboard is composed by several data sources and widgets that can be customized and combined together in the new era of dashboards. (ref 15-Jun-20 blog post “Welcome to the new Era of Dashboards” ).  But you can also optimize your dashboard to monitor different kinds of environments all together. Let’s see how it works.  Cross-engine widgets  If you need an overview of the entire workload across all of your environments, you can use for example the Jobs count by status datasource in a pie chart to have a quick overview of how many jobs are waiting, running or ended in error or in successful state.  To make this datasource and widget works across multiple environment you need to add first an engine list.   D engine list and Z engine list are optimized for homogeneous environment, while for an hybrid (distributed and z/OS) environment you have to select the Engine list.  At this point you can add also the desired widget and customize all fields as you can see below.  Widgets based on datasource with pre-defined engine.  However, the best way to monitor hybrid environment is to use specific datasources for each engine.  For example, if you need to monitor the Critical jobs  Duplicate the Critical jobs by status datasource and name it after the...

How-to videos are now live on the Workload Automation YouTube channel. Video is a unique way of communicating a lot of information in a short period of time. They allow you to retain more information, understand concepts more rapidly and make you more enthusiastic about what you are learning.