• WebSphere Extended Deployment Compute Grid overview and Getting Started
    • Product overview
      • Learn more about WebSphere Extended Deployment Compute Grid
      • What is new in this release
      • z/OS considerations
    • Getting started with Compute Grid
      • Understanding the Compute Grid environment
      • Compute Grid applications, jobs, and job definitions
      • The Compute Grid endpoints
      • The unit test environment (UTE) topology
      • Native execution endpoints and jobs
  • Migrating the product
    • Migrating product configurations
      • Using the Migration wizard
      • XDPreUpgrade command
      • XDUpgrade command
    • Migrating to a Version 6.1 deployment manager
    • Migrating to a Version 6.1 node
    • Migrating to a WebSphere Extended Deployment Compute Grid Version 6.1 cell
    • Where migration tasks are performed
  • Installing and customizing the product
    • Hardware and software requirements
    • Distributed operating systems
      • Installation scenarios
      • WebSphere Extended Deployment Compute Grid topology
      • Installing in a WebSphere Application Server environment
      • Installing in other server environments
      • Installing the product
      • Installing silently
      • Installation parameters
      • Using the centralized installation manager repository tool to add products
      • Using the Update Installer to install maintenance packages
        • Updating the middleware agent [Version 6.1.0.3 and later]
      • Creating and installing customized packages
        • Build definition file
        • Creating and installing a CIP
          • Creating a build definition file and generating a CIP
          • Installing a CIP
            • Silently installing a CIP
            • Installing a CIP to apply maintenance to an existing product installation
          • Uninstalling CIP updates from an existing product installation
        • Creating and installing an IIP [Version 6.1.0.1 and later]
          • Creating a build definition file and generating an IIP [Version 6.1.0.1 and later]
          • Installing an IIP [Version 6.1.0.1 and later]
            • Silently installing an IIP [Version 6.1.0.1 and later]
          • Modifying an existing build definition file for an IIP [Version 6.1.0.1 and later]
      • Creating and augmenting profiles
        • Using the graphical user interface to create profiles
          • Creating profiles for multiple products
          • Creating profiles for use with other IBM products
        • Using the graphical user interface to augment profiles
          • Augmenting profiles with multiple product augment templates
        • Using the manageprofiles command to create profiles
        • Using the manageprofiles command to augment and unaugment profiles
        • Non-root profile creation and augmentation
        • First steps console
      • Uninstalling the product
    • z/OS
      • Installing the Application Server Toolkit Version 6.1.1 and the Profile Management tool for z/OS
      • Augmenting z/OS profiles
      • Using the Profile Management Tool for z/OS to customize the deployment manager profile
      • Using the Profile Management Tool for z/OS to customize a managed application server profile
      • Uploading a customized job
  • Configuring the Compute Grid environment
    • Planning your Compute Grid environment
    • Configuring the unit test environment (UTE) in RAD
    • Configuring the job scheduler
      • Creating the job scheduler database
      • Verifying the job scheduler installation
      • Securing the job scheduler
        • Administrative roles and privileges
        • Running jobs under user credentials
        • Roles and privileges for securing the job scheduler
      • Integrating the job scheduler with external schedulers
        • Understanding the integration of an external workload scheduler and WebSphere Extended Deployment
        • Setting up the external scheduler interface
          • Configuring the job scheduler message-driven interface and associated JMS artifacts
          • Configuring the service integration bus
          • Configuring the JMS queues
          • Securing the external scheduler integration interface
        • The WSGrid command-line utility
          • WSgrid tuning
          • Compute Grid job properties
            • Control properties
            • Common job properties
            • Transactional batch properties
            • Compute-intensive and native-execution properties
    • Configuring grid endpoints
      • Creating the grid endpoint database
    • The parallel job manager (PJM) [Version 6.1.0.3 and later]
      • Installing and configuring the parallel job manager (PJM) [Version 6.1.0.5 and later]
      • System Programming Interfaces (SPI) and properties [Version 6.1.0.5 and later]
      • Sample application for the parallel job manager [Version 6.1.0.5 and later]
      • Other considerations when running the parallel job manager [Version 6.1.0.5 and later]
  • Developing Compute Grid applications
    • Installing the Compute Grid application
    • The Compute Grid programming models
      • The compute-intensive programming model
      • The batch programming model
        • Developing a simple batch application
          • Batch job steps
          • Batch return codes
          • Enabling last participant support [Version 6.1.0.3 and later]
          • Batch controller bean
          • Batch data streams
          • Checkpoint algorithms
          • Results algorithm
      • POJO programming model
        • Building a batch application using POJO
      • Batch data stream framework and patterns [Version 6.1.0.3 and later]
        • JDBCReaderPattern [Version 6.1.0.3 and later]
        • JDBCWriterPattern [Version 6.1.0.3 and later]
        • ByteReaderPattern [Version 6.1.0.3 and later]
        • ByteWriterPattern [Version 6.1.0.3 and later]
        • FileReaderPattern [Version 6.1.0.3 and later]
        • FileWriterPattern [Version 6.1.0.3 and later]
        • RecordOrientedDatasetReaderPattern [Version 6.1.0.3 and later]
        • RecordOrientedDataSetWriterPattern [Version 6.1.0.3 and later]
        • JPAReaderPattern [Version 6.1.0.5 and later]
        • JPAWriterPattern [Version 6.1.0.5 and later]
        • Generic batch step (GenericXDBatchStep) [Version 6.1.0.3 and later]
        • Error Tolerant step [Version 6.1.0.5 and later]
        • PercentageBasedThresholdPolicy [Version 6.1.0.5 and later]
        • RecordBasedThresholdPolicy [Version 6.1.0.5 and later]
        • Using the batch data stream (BDS) framework [Version 6.1.0.3 and later]
  • Managing Compute Grid jobs and their environment
    • The job management console
    • The command line interface
    • Job logs
    • Job classes
    • Creating and managing reports for Compute Grid statistics
    • Requirements-based job scheduling
    • Defining service policies for Compute Grid jobs
    • Job classification in Compute Grid
    • Job usage data for charge-back accounting support [Version 6.1.0.1 and later]
    • Integrating Compute Grid features in z/OS operating systems
      • Managing multi-user WLM environments
      • Managing worker threads
      • Using the forced cancel command on z/OS
      • Enabling job usage information [Version 6.1.0.1 and later]
      • Configuring service classes in WLM for z/OS
      • z/OS workload management and service policies
      • Transaction class propagation on z/OS operating systems
    • Rolling out an edition
    • Middleware agent
  • Reference
    • Release notes
    • xJCL elements
    • Port number settings
    • Scripts
      • removeGEE.py
      • wsgridConfig.py [Version 6.1.0.5 and later]
      • parallelJobManager.py script [Version 6.1.0.5 and later]
      • jobrecovery.bat|.sh script [Version 6.1.0.5 and later]
    • Administrator scripting interfaces
      • Job scheduler configuration AdminTasks
    • Custom properties
      • Java virtual machine custom properties
      • Configuring cell-wide custom properties
      • Job scheduler custom properties
      • Adding custom properties to Compute Grid endpoints
    • Sample Compute Grid applications
    • The Compute Grid job state table
    • Native execution job state table
    • Administrator examples
      • xJCL sample for a batch job
      • xJCL sample for a native execution job
      • xJCL sample for a job with specified application edition
      • XML schema for a compute intensive job
      • XML schema for a batch job
      • XML schema for a native job
    • WSGrid property file examples
      • Job from repository properties file
      • Native execution properties file
      • Compute-intensive properties file
      • Transactional batch properties file
      • Restart job properties file
      • xJCL file
      • Example control file
    • Web services and EJB interfaces for the job scheduler
      • The job scheduler Web services interface
      • The job scheduler EJB interfaces
      • Using the base scheduler in WebSphere Application Server with the job scheduler
    • Logs
      • BusinessGridStatsCache
    • Troubleshooting Compute Grid
      • Adding log and trace settings to Compute Grid
      • Common problems
      • Diagnosing problems using job logs
    • Messages