Complements Will Get You Everywhere: How Do CA Workload Automation iDash and CA Workload Automation AE SP4 Complement Each Other?
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The document discusses how CA Workload Automation AE (sp4) and CA Workload Automation iDash work together to enhance performance and efficiency in managing critical workloads. It highlights the complementary features of both tools, including improved reporting capabilities and performance diagnostics that help in identifying bottlenecks. The presentation emphasizes the benefits of using both products in diagnostics, reporting, and workload management optimization.
Complements Will Get You Everywhere: How Do CA Workload Automation iDash and CA Workload Automation AE SP4 Complement Each Other?
- 1. World® ’16 Complements Will Get You Everywhere: How Do CA Workload Automation iDash and CA Workload Automation AE SP4 Complement Each Other? Jack McCarrick – ECLARO Inc. – WLA (AutoSys) & iDash Admin – Canon USA MFX151S MAINFRAME AND WORKLOAD AUTOMATION
- 2. 2 © 2016 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.@CAWORLD #CAWORLD © 2016 CA. All rights reserved. All trademarks referenced herein belong to their respective companies. The content provided in this CA World 2016 presentation is intended for informational purposes only and does not form any type of warranty. The information provided by a CA partner and/or CA customer has not been reviewed for accuracy by CA. For Informational Purposes Only Terms of this Presentation
- 4. 4 © 2016 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.@CAWORLD #CAWORLD My Background eClaro, Inc. – ECLARO is a Business and Technology Consulting firm headquartered in New York City with 14 offices across the United States, Canada and the Philippines. Working through ECLARO since 1998 at a large technology company (headquartered in Long Island, NY) I came out of the IBM Mainframe era! Started in 1974 with OS/360 and progressed onwards! Jack McCarrick Senior IT Consultant, ECLARO
- 5. 5 © 2016 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.@CAWORLD #CAWORLD My Background (continued) IDMS Database – DBA 1998 (1982) thru 2014 on the Mainframe – System support (same period); Mainframe Scheduler (“home grown”) ”CA Workload Automation AE (CA WLA AutoSys®)” Admin – Since 2004 – Release 3.4, 4.5, 11.0, 11.3.6 – Running R 11.0 and R 11.3.6 in Production Terma JAWS Admin (former) and CA WLA iDash Admin Jack McCarrick Senior IT Consultant, ECLARO
- 15. 15 © 2016 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.@CAWORLD #CAWORLD THEN…… § You Upgrade! You Apply Service Packs: – SP3 (WCC) and SP4 (CA WLA AutoSys) – ……. or (better yet)… – SP4 (WCC) and SP5 (CA WLA AutoSys) – (service packs are paired; SP4, SP5 are most recent) § Now, you see ……
- 19. 19 © 2016 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.@CAWORLD #CAWORLD What Do We Have? “After we had already bought (licensed) CA WLA iDash, is CA now giving us the ‘same stuff ‘ for free?” Are we getting a Bargain here????
- 20. 20 © 2016 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.@CAWORLD #CAWORLD “Well……. In a word ….. YES !
- 21. 21 © 2016 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.@CAWORLD #CAWORLD “COMPLEMENTS” (“Are Always Welcome!”) § Yes, there is SOME overlap. We simply ran JOB Run Reports. § BUT……. – Each product is designed with different but related goals – CA WLA iDash has great features and Reporting ability – The new, SP4, Level of CA WLA AutoSys (WCC) has features to add to your CA WLA iDash experience § Let’s examine some general areas…
- 22. 22 © 2016 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.@CAWORLD #CAWORLD “Complementary” Areas § LATENCY / PERFORMANCE diagnosis § “FLOWS” (you know.. Charts!) § REPORTING ( a huge function )
- 23. 23 © 2016 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.@CAWORLD #CAWORLD “LATENCY / PERFORMANCE” Server Stats Report: § Good, quick way to view overall CA AutoSys Performance § Start getting clues to any ‘bottle necks’ § As Admin, you can say: – “yes, we had some LATENCY” 2 hours ago! – “no, things look OK” (meaning other factors – network, etc) § Either way, you will look GOOD ( a Hero again?)
- 25. 25 © 2016 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.@CAWORLD #CAWORLD § You see a ‘spike’ where there is Latency § Start getting clues to any ‘bottle necks’ § To delve further, go into CA WLA AutoSys (SP4+)! – look at the Server Stats via “Throughput” Report § Try to pinpoint individual MACHINES “LATENCY / PERFORMANCE”
- 32. 32 © 2016 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.@CAWORLD #CAWORLD ”FLOWS” § CA WLA iDash: Critical Path § CA WLA AutoSys (SP4): see ALL jobs § Purposes: – CA WLA iDash helps you see what MUST run to read a deadline – CA WLA AutoSys gives you the FULL view, all inter-dependencies
- 33. 33 © 2016 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.@CAWORLD #CAWORLD REPORTING: § First of all, CA WLA iDash is DESIGNED to provide Reports – INTERACTIVELY (via GUI) – Batch Mode (Command Line Interface, “CLI”) – (this is covered in other sessions for CA WLA iDash) § But what gives CA WLA AutoSys this new Reporting feature? – Something called.. – “THE ALLIGATOR” !!
- 34. 34 © 2016 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.@CAWORLD #CAWORLD THE ALLIGATOR” !!????!! § No….it’s called § The “AGGREGATOR” – not new to CA AutoSys – you can run the ‘aggregator’ command even in Release 11.0! – But you do it Manually or via a Scheduled job (for example) § Runs AUTOMATICALLY as of SP4 and higher!
- 35. 35 © 2016 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.@CAWORLD #CAWORLD AGGREGATOR: § Look in path $AUTOUSER/out on the WAAE server § (same path where event_demon.ACE files are located) § You will see….. Look Inside one of these files..
- 36. 36 © 2016 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.@CAWORLD #CAWORLD Statistics being ‘Aggregated’ Hourly, Daily Automatic aggregation of Stats empowers the REPORTS (Templates) provided in SP4 and higher
- 40. 40 © 2016 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.@CAWORLD #CAWORLD These are the REPORTS readily Available in CA WLA AutoSys (SP4) They do NOT exist in CA WLA iDash The ‘complement’ what CA WLA iDash has: (next slide) Reports
- 41. 41 © 2016 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.@CAWORLD #CAWORLD These iDash REPORTS address different information requirements than that of CA WLA AutoSys (SP4) The iDash REPORTS can be tailored with a wide set of parameters. (even more flexibility in Release 12.0.02) Reports
- 42. 42 © 2016 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.@CAWORLD #CAWORLD CLOSING § 30 minutes is not enough time to cover this topic! § Latest version of CA WLA AutoSys COMPLEMENTS the vast Reporting capability of CA WLA iDash § Using both products, you can ‘cover much ground’ – In diagnostics – In Reporting – In analysis aimed towards improving your Management of Work Load Automation