CA 7 Workload Automation - Operational Workshop

Audience

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

Prerequisites

A genuine interest in learning how to operate CA 7 in an efficient manner. A general understanding of JCL, JES2, and the IBM z/OS Operating System.

Duration

3 days. Hands on.

Course Objectives

This course provides an intensive look into the definition, monitoring and control of Production jobs through 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:

• Understand the capabilities and limitations of CA 7.
• Display the defined components of CA 7.
• Understand how CA 7 tracks job activity.
• Monitor CA-7 activity and resolve problems.
• Understand the various CA 7 queues and their importance in job tracking.
• Define jobs to CA 7.
• Schedule jobs efficiently in CA 7 Define job triggers.
• Define job requirements Restart abended jobs through the CA-7/CA-11 Interface.
• Understand how JCL is handled by CA 7.
• Determine a methodology of simplifying the production workload and automating the job submission process.

Course Content

The course will consist primarily of online work (if possible) used in conjunction with the text to aid in the learning process. Material covered during the course includes:

CA-7
Why CA-7?
Other methods of job submission
Environment
Structure
Startup
Shutdown

DISPLAYING THE ENVIRONMENT
Queue commands
LQ Command
LRDY Command
LACT Command
LJES Command
LRLOG Command
LPRRN Command

What is defined to my CA-7?
What version?
SSCAN Command
/DISPLAY,ST=JCL Command
/DISPLAY,FM=SCAL Command
PRINT,SCAL=xx Command

THE DATA BASE
The Data Base Menu
The Job Screen
Schedule Ids (SCHIDs)
The Job Scheduling Screens
The Primary Job Scheduling Parameter Edit Screen
The SCHDMOD Screen
Job Triggering
The Job Trigger Screen
Job Dependencies
The Job Predecessor Screen
The User Predecessor Screen

JOB MANAGEMENT
The Demand Command
The Run Command
The Queue Maintenance Screen
Satisfying Requirements
Restarting Jobs
Editing JCL in the REQ Queue
Using the Override Library
Top Line Job Commands
The Cancel Command
The ADDRQ Command
The NXTCYC Command
The LJOB Command
Forecasting Commands
The FJOB Command
The FTAPE Command
The FSTRUC Command
The Help Facility

JCL CONTROL
The External Communicators
The Batch Terminal Interface (BTI)
The U7SVC Facility
The Trailer Step
The GRAPH Commands
Scheduled JCL Overrides
#SCC Statements

ADVANCED SCHEDULING
Creating a Base Calendar
Scheduling Philosophy
Defining Jobstreams

ENHANCEMENTS
Queue Maintenance
XQM Command
'LIST=' Option
Dynamic BTI Processing
CA-Driver
Conditional Dependencies
/OPERIDS Command
The /AUTO Command
Virtual Resource Management