How an Event is triggered from Workload Automation ESP Edition

Products

• ESP Workload Automation

Issue/Introduction

There many ways for ESP to kick off a process.  This Knowledge Base article describes the most commonly known methods to trigger an Event. 

Environment

Release : All Releases

Component : ESP WORKLOAD AUTOMATION

Resolution

You may trigger an Event by doing the following: 

- Define the schedule date/time
- Use DSTRIG or WOBTRIG in the event definition
- Set the event as a monitor event
- Issue the TRIGGER command

You can access ESP using these common methods: 

From the mainframe:
- Issue MVS command against the ESP STC. 
  Example: /F esp_stc,command
- Run ESP in batch mode (EXEC PGM=ESP) 
- Call ESP (which itself can be considered as an API) from REXX.

From the distributed platform:
- Run the ESPlmi utility.  This utility is in the Agent installation folder.
- Run the ESPmgr utility.  This utility is in the Agent installation folder.
- Use the REST API.