IBM Z Workload Scheduler

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Batch automation product. Consists of:

• Controller - managing task (z/OS based)
• Tracker Agent - Client on system being managed by the controller. Tracker agents are available for z/OS, z/OS UNIX Systems Services (USS), IBM System i (AS/400) and many other platforms including Microsoft Windows and UNIX. 

One ZWS Controller can control workloads running on the same z/OS system, or one or more other systems running a ZWS Tracker-Agent.

First released by IBM as OPC (Operations Planning and Control) in the 1970s. Name changed to OPC/A (Operations Planning and Control/Advanced) in 1987. Renamed to OPC/ESA in 1991, then to TME10 OPC in 1997. Renamed again to Tivoli Workload Scheduler in 2001, IBM Workload Scheduler in 2015, and finally IBM Z Workload Scheduler in 2019

IBM Product IDs:

• ZWS 10.x Product ID: 5698-WSH
• ZWS 9.x Product ID: 5698-T08
• IBM Workload Scheduler for z/OS z 9.x Product ID: 5698-T08
• TWSz 9.x Product ID: 5698-T08
• TWSz 8.2+ Product ID: 5698-A17
• TWSz 8.1, 8.2 Product ID: 5697-WSZ
• Tivoli OPC V2.x Product ID: 5697-OPC
• TME10 OPC V2.x Product ID; 5697-OPC
• OPC/ESA V1.x Product ID: 5695-007
• OPC/A V1.x Product ID: 5665-371 (Event Manager Subsystem/EMS), 5665-372 (Production Control System/PCS), 5665-373 (Network Event Communicator/NEC)