Autosys Guide - Austosys Quick Reference

Unicenter AutoSys Job Management has unique visualization, modeling, and analysis
capabilities through its companion tool - Unicenter Job Visualization. This tool graphically
displays all job processing activityies allowing you to see how the production schedule impacts
the entire organization. It gives a clear, actual picture of enterprise processing, whree you can do
visualising, modeling, and analyzing jobflows with ease. Also provides developers, operators,
and managers with a common workspace in which to collaborate and design production
schedules.
Autosys Status Abbreviations
The following table lists the abbreviations used in the ST (status) column of the autorep report,
and gives the status for each abbreviation.

AC ACTIVATED
FA FAILURE
IN INACTIVE
OH ON_HOLD
OI ON_ICE
QU QUE_WAIT
RE RESTART
RU RUNNING
ST STARTING
SU SUCCESS
TE TERMINATED

Where to go to find Autosys Errors

 $AUTOSYS/out/DBMaint.out for DB problems.
 $AUTOUSER/out/event_demon.$AUTOSERV.
 $SYBASE/install/errorlog_$DSQUERY when event server will not start..
 ($AUTOUSER/out/event_demon.ACE).
 /tmp files created for job_run at client machine.
 NT: AutoNuTc\lib/X11\app-defaults\xpert.
 Output from the job definition output & error files.

Autosys Dependencies
 done(job).
 exitcode(job) > 5 and exitcode(job_b) != 10.
 failure(job_a) or f (job_b).
 notrunning (job).
 success (job) and s(job_b).
 terminated(job).
 value(global_name)=100.

Unicenter Autosys Job Management is a workload automation (aka job scheduling) tool supplied by
Computer Associates. The name of the product has gone through various iterations as of 11.3 it will be
known as "CA Workload Automation AE" the AE part referring to AutoSys Engine (there are through
other CA Workload Automation tools that have other suffixes).