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 '[Link]’
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