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I'm being forced to work primarily with a Tivoli Workload Scheduler (TWS). My impression so far is that it is not user friendly to install and use and that has some strange aspects in its interface and architecture.

The objective of TWS is to allow planning and automating deployments and jobs like data transfer and data processing.

Do you know the TWS? What is your opinion about it?

Not convinced it was a good choice for our objectives.

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"it is not user friendly to install and use and that has some strange aspects in its interface and architecture" - you just described every piece of software that costs more than $5000 and is over 5 years old, I think. I have no experience with TWS so i can't comment specifically. But if you think it's a bad fit for your objectives, why don't you explain what those objectives are, and why you think it's a bad fit? – mfinni Feb 1 '10 at 17:38
Clearly you need to precise your objectives. Without that the anwer will be one of : yes|no|may be|42 – Fleole Feb 6 '10 at 15:20
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TWS is a very good application for a big and even a complex environment. It has the capability to schedule jobs in all environments including applications like SAP and Peoplesoft. TWS is very reliable.

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It's complex, expensive, reliable, sophisticated, and effective in a heterogeneous environment (for example, synchronizing jobs between Unix and mainframe servers). IMHO it would be overkill for managing a few servers, but more at home in large environments.

Also a popular choice for IBM environments.

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