IBM Tivoli Dynamic Workload Broker is a key element in a comprehensive, on demand, Tivoli workload automation portfolio. It can use dynamic resource information as well as recommendations from other products to determine the best systems to which new jobs will be dispatched.

This IBM Redbooks publication documents the architecture, installation and customization, operation best practices, performance optimization, high availability considerations, Web Services interface, and troubleshooting of Tivoli Dynamic Workload Broker V1.1.

In addition, we cover integration scenarios with other IBM products, such as IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler, IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager, IBM Tivoli Change and Configuration Management Database, IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Tivoli Enterprise Portal, and IBM Enterprise Workload Manager.

Finally, we discuss Tivoli Dynamic Workload Broker operation in a IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler for a z/OS end-to-end environment.

Clients and Tivoli professionals who are responsible for installing, administering, maintaining, or using IBM Tivoli Dynamic Workload Broker will find this book a major reference.

Chapter 1. Tivoli Dynamic Workload Broker overview

Chapter 2. Tivoli Dynamic Workload Broker architecture

Chapter 3. Tivoli Dynamic Workload Broker installation

Chapter 4. Working with Tivoli Dynamic Workload Broker

Chapter 5. Advanced guide to Tivoli Dynamic Workload Broker

Chapter 6. High availability and recovery considerations

Chapter 7. Performance optimization

Chapter 8. Integration with other IBM Tivoli products

Chapter 9. Interacting with Tivoli Dynamic Workload Broker using the Web services interface

Chapter 10. Troubleshooting

Chapter 11. Managing Tivoli Dynamic Workload Broker jobs using Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS end-to-end

Appendix A. Using Tivoli Dynamic Workload Broker with Enterprise Workload Manager

Appendix B. List of default ports used by Tivoli Dynamic Workload Broker