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Scheduling on iSeries with Workload Automation – the Frequently Asked Questions

July 3, 2019
Enrica Alberti, Advisory Software Engineer

When a customer is approaching for the first time to schedule workloads on iSeries environments, a set of questions are usually raised. This blog is a collection of these questions and related answers, on a WA 94FP3 base.

How much does it cost? The real TCO of HCL Workload Automation

june 27, 2019

Cristiano Plini, Senior Technical Manager at HCL
Riccardo Pizzutilo, Technical Sales Specialist

How much does it cost? This is the key question asked by a buyer when evaluating a software purchase.

The answer is not always easy because the cost of a software solution is not just the price to be paid but it’s something more complex: it’s TCO.

As you probably know, TCO stands for “Total Cost of Ownership” and it’s a high importance parameter to evaluate the Return on Investment (ROI) which definitively defines if the software solution is worth the expense.

MCP Performance improvement (TWS for z/OS 930, ZWS 950

June 20, 2019
Rossella Donadeo, Technical Leader of Workload Scheduler for z/os

During the years, many features have been developed involving more e more complex analysis and actions in the Current Plan modifications due to ad hoc requests.

At the same time customer’s daily workload increased in size and complexity, becoming more dependent on ad hoc actions (ETT processing, Automatic recovery actions etc.)

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