Organize scheduling objects in workflow folders
Gain greater business agility by organizing your scheduling objects in a hierarchy of folders. Organize them by lines of business, departments, geographies, or any custom category that makes sense for your business operations.
- jobs
- job streams
- workstations
- workstation classes
- calendars
- event rules
- prompts
- resources
- run cycle groups
- variable tables
- workload applications
Folders also simplify security access. Associate access control lists to individual folders to restrict the rights to which folder any single user or group can access. You can also delegate security management of a specific folder and its sub-folders to other users.
For more information, see Organizing scheduling objects into folders.
composer rename
command, you can easily move objects into folders with specific names that
originate from naming conventions used in the original object names themselves, thus simplifying the
object name. Support for wildcards and a preview option make organizing your workload simple and
easy. There are a number of composer and conman commands that can be used to manage folders, see Folder definition.
In mixed environments with agents at versions earlier than 9.5 FP2, ensure that master domain manager, backup master domain manager, and domain managers are at version 9.5 FP2 level. For detailed information about using command-line commands and scheduling objects in environments at various version levels, see section Compatibility scenarios and limitations in IBM Workload Scheduler Release Notes.
For an overview on folders, specifically for organizing jobs and job streams, watch the video, Greater business agility and enforced security of Lines Of Business with workflow folders, on the Workload Automation YouTube channel.