CA Workload

Automation ESP
 CA WA ESP

 CA WA ESP Edition acts as the central point of control for your workload --
handling and directing all incoming messages from CA WA Workstation ESP
Edition and CA WA ESP Edition Agents. Through the Agents, CA WA ESP
Edition manages distributed workload. CA WA ESP Edition is aware of the entire
environment, sends commands to Agents, receives messages from them, and
makes decisions based on information you define.
 VERSIONS
Key Features Release 12.0 Release 11.4
Automatic Time Zone Adjustment Yes No
CA View integration Yes No
Hadoop Advanced integration Yes No
Dynamic Agent Configuration Yes No
Performance upgrade CA Workload Automation ESP Edition
version 12.0 offers improved
utilization of the instruction cache
Automatic setting up of hold Yes No
COMMONLY USED TERMS IN CA
ESP
 JOBS
 APPLICATION
 SUB-APPLICATIONS
 EVENTS
 DATASETS
 CSF (CONSOLIDATED STATUS FACILITY)
 PAGE MODE
 WORKFLOW

JOBS APPLICATIONS EVENTS

 TYPES OF JOBS

MAINFRAME

DATASET WINDOWS

ESP
FILE TRIGGER UNIX

AS/400 SAP
 PROCESSING APPLICATIONS

 APPLICATIONS MUST BE DEFINED WITH FOLLOWING MANDATORY

STATEMENTS
 APPLICATION NAME
 JCL LIBRARY STATEMENT
REQUIREMENTS FOR DEFINING
JOBS
 TYPE OF JOB
 JOBNAME
 RUN SCHEDULE
 DEPENDENCY (IF ANY)
 AGENT NAME FOR NON-MAINFRAME JOBS
 FILENAME OR SCRIPTNAME FOR NON-MAINFRAME JOBS
WORKING WITH APPLICATION

 A CA WA ESP Edition application is made up of a series of statements that:

 Identify the application.
 Tell CA WA ESP Edition where the JCL is located.
 Identify the jobs to run.
 Describe job relationships.
 Identify the documentation library.
 Describe other dependencies, such as time and resources.
 SAMPLE APPLICATION
APPL PAYROLL
JCLLIB 'CYBER.JCL.CNTL’

JOB A -- JOBNAME
RUN DAILY – SCHEDULE CRITERIA
RELEASE (B,C) – DEPENDENCY JOBS
ENDJOB
JOB B
RUN DAILY
ENDJOB
JOB C
RUN DAILY
ENDJOB
 AGENTS

 Agents are the key integration components of CA Technologies workload

automation products.
 Agents let you automate, monitor, and manage workload on all major platforms,
applications, and databases.
 To run workload on a particular system, you need to install an agent on that
system.
Example: If your workload must run on a UNIX computer, for example, you can
install and configure the CA WA Agent for UNIX. The agent can run UNIX scripts,
execute UNIX commands, transfer files using FTP, monitor file activity on the agent
computer, and perform many other tasks.
IDENTIFYING DIFFERENT TYPE
OF JOBS
 MAINFRAME JOB

JOB JOBNAME
RUN STATEMENT
JCLLIB ‘DATASET NAME(MEMBER)’
ENDJOB
 WINDOWS JOBS

NT_JOB JOBNAME
RUN STATEMENT
AGENT AGENTNAME
USER USERNAME
CMDNAME C:\***
ENDJOB
 CSF COMMANDS

 R – To Restart a particular job

 H – To Hold a job
 A – To Release job which is held
 C – To Force complete a job
 EJ – To Edit the JCL of MF job
 BJ – To Browse the JCL of MF job
 BP - To Browse the procedure of job
 WSF – To view the logs of distributed job
 ECJ – To edit the copyjcl