WebSphere Extended Deployment Compute Grid, Version 6.1
             Operating Systems: AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, Windows, z/OS


What is new in this release

WebSphere® Extended Deployment Compute Grid Version 6.1 adds a simpler programming model, a job management console, and integration capability with external workload schedulers.

What is new or changed in WebSphere Extended Deployment Compute Grid Version 6.1.0.5 [Version 6.1.0.5 and later]

Batch data stream framework and patterns
Patterns Additional patterns have been added since Version V6.1.0.3, including JPAReadPattern, JPAWriterPattern, Error tolerant step, PercentageBasedThresholdPattern, and RecordBasedThresholdPatternSupport. See Batch data stream framework and patterns .

What is new or changed in WebSphere Extended Deployment Compute Grid Version 6.1.0.3 [Version 6.1.0.3 and later]

Batch data stream framework and patterns
Patterns Compute Grid provides a batch data stream (BDS) framework that includes pre-built code to work with popular streams like text, byte, database, datasets, and so on. See Batch data stream framework and patterns .

What is new or changed in WebSphere Extended Deployment Compute Grid Version 6.1.0.1 [Version 6.1.0.1 and later]

Support
z/OS More efficient z/OS integration.
Batch application Additional support for multiple batch application editions.

What is new or changed in WebSphere Extended Deployment Compute Grid Version 6.1

Following is a list of new features for WebSphere Extended Deployment Compute Grid Version 6.1:

WebSphere Extended Deployment Compute Grid
Simplified programming model WebSphere Extended Deployment Compute Grid Version 6.1, transactional batch programs are implemented as simple Plain Old Java Objects (POJO) and packaged into Enterprise Application Archive (.ear) files for deployment. See The Compute Grid programming models .
Native execution endpoints and applications WebSphere Extended Deployment Compute Grid Version 6.1 can be composed of both WebSphere Application Servers and native execution endpoints. A WebSphere Application Server runs on a server platform as a dedicated collection of containers and application services that support the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) programming and component model. See Native execution endpoints and jobs .
External workload scheduler integration WebSphere Extended Deployment Compute Grid Version 6.1 provides an integration capability with external workload schedulers, such as Tivoli Workload Scheduler. A Compute Grid integration layer enables Tivoli Workload Scheduler (and similar products) to dispatch and monitor Compute Grid activities. This integration layer may also be used by third party workload scheduler products.
Job management console WebSphere Extended Deployment Compute Grid Version 6.1 provides a new web-based application for managing jobs, called the job management console. See The job management console .
New administrator scripting interfaces
Use the following administrator scripting interfaces to manage the product outside of the administrative console:
Information center available on developerWorks wiki
An unofficial version of the information center is available on developerWorks on the WebSphere Extended Deployment wiki. After you log in to this wiki with your developerWorks ID, you can leave comments for the development team.
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