LET’S INTRODUCE what’s new
Get familiar with the new concepts introduced by Workload Automation on Cloud that leverage the 9.5 Fix Pack 1 on-premise version, released in July:

• Subscription folder: to increase business agility and enforce the security of your subscription, Workload Automation on Cloud introduces workflow folders for job streams and jobs.

Nowadays, industries move towards microservice and cloud native architectures that makes use of containers to scale and deploy applications. But containers have its own challenges and adds complexity to the infrastructure to maintain especially in large dynamic environments (if you are not familiar with containers and Kubernetes don’t worry: catch up with our latest post, Containers and Workload Automation 101). 

IBM Z Workload Scheduler collects many information about its workload execution and data base definitions in different formats. You can obtain info from messages issued on SYSTEM and/or on IzWS product LOG, or you can obtain it from AUDIT function reports. 
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Starting from this info, an analysis can be done to better tuning workload, prevent problems and so on.