Advanced CA 7 Operational Workshop

Audience

Any personnel who will be scheduling or supporting a production workload through CA 7. Primarily, this course is aimed at Production Support and Job Schedulers, but can include Programmers as well as the User Community.

Prerequisites

A basic understanding of CA 7 concepts is required. Students are also expected to have a general understanding of JCL, JES2 and the IBM z/OS operating system.

Duration

2 days.

Course Objectives

This course provides an advanced look into the definition and setup of an efficient CA 7. Students taking this course can be expected to work on CA 7 in an efficient manner immediately upon course completion. It has been designed in a 'Hands-On' format to allow for quicker assimilation of the material presented and greater retention of the ideas presented. If the 'Hands-On' format is not possible, then the course can be presented in a lecture format. After taking this course the student should be able to:

• Enhance the current scheduling definitions.
• Work with the latest features of CA-7
• Database Transportability (DBT) CA-Driver
• Automated Recovery Facility (ARF)
• Use JCL to improve job definition turnaround time
• Automate job input
• Define alternate job stream paths

Course Content

CA-7
Understanding the current setup
Schedule IDs (SCHIDs)
Job definitions

JCL CONTROL
The External Communicators
The Batch Terminal Interface (BTI)
Database Transportability (DBT)
Scheduled JCL Overrides
#SCC Statements

ADVANCED SCHEDULING
Creating a Base Calendar
Scheduling Philosophy
Defining Job Streams

CA-7 ENHANCEMENTS
CA-Driver
Conditional Dependencies
Automated Recovery Facility