It'd be helpful to understand what sort of job(s) you'd like to submit to offer more precise advice. However, to get started, there's an excellent IBM redbook on z/OSMF:
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg247851.pdf One option, if your users are familiar with and like z/OS SDSF, is to use z/OSMF's SDSF interface. That option is described in Section 3.11 of the redbook. Or, if you'd like to roll-your-own user interface, then yes, you can use z/OSMF's job-related REST APIs. Take a look at Chapter 18 of the redbook, including section 18.5. Your roll-your-own UI can be (and probably ought to be) served by z/OS itself using a Liberty runtime, most probably via JAX-RS. If you have CICS Transaction Server for z/OS or WebSphere Application Server for z/OS, you have Liberty runtime licensing/support already. If you don't, then obviously you can go get either of those products, or you can use Open Liberty (that you'd support): https://openliberty.io Please give at least some thought to security-related issues, as you always should. There are other ways to do this, but I'm providing the z/OSMF-related answers at the moment since you asked. As a notable example of another way to do this, you could create your roll-your-own UI, run it in a Liberty runtime on z/OS, and use JZOS methods for job submission and related capabilities -- including com.ibm.jzos.MvsJobSubmitter. You also mentioned IBM Workload Scheduler for z/OS, and that too can certainly get the job done. Take a look at the "Application Lab" features since that's likely the best fit. If you like CGIs, then the IBM HTTP Server for z/OS and REXX CGIs (for example) are ready to help. There are lots and lots of choices. Feel free to post a follow-up if you'd like any more info. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Sipples IT Architect Executive, Industry Solutions, IBM Z & LinuxONE -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
