Duration
4 days
Overview
Build the knowledge and skills you need to use CA Workload Automation CA 7 Edition to implement workloads and control batch production processing. As you learn how to create, monitor and control work from the CA Workload Automation CA 7 Edition Web Client and 3270 interfaces, the screen shots, quizzes and hands-on workshops will give you practical experience of defining jobs, schedules and requirements, and of monitoring, controlling and forecasting workloads.
What You Will Learn
- Describe the major functions of CA Workload Automation CA 7 Edition r11.3
- Understand basic scheduling concepts used by CA Workload Automation CA 7 Edition
- Create calendar and event-driven schedules of work
- Set up job dependencies and requirements
- Execute various display, action and system commands relating to daily monitoring
- Forecast workloads to help with impact analysis of failures
- Use built-in facilities for automating JCL changes
- Understand the concepts of Virtual Resource Management and how to set them up
- Get an overview of the Automated Recovery Facility
For Managers
This course is designed to provide Operations and Production Control staff with a basic understanding of the components of CA Workload Automation CA 7 Edition and how to use this CA solution for day-to-day management of batch workloads. This is an ideal starting point people coming into Operations and Production Control with no previous experience of CA Workload Automation CA 7 Edition.
Prerequisites
Experience with scheduling, JCL and production control activities
Who Should Attend
- Schedulers
- Operators
- IT Manager (Day 1 Overview)
Course Agenda
Module 1 - Component Overview
- Identify required and optional components
- Describe Control System tasks and processing
- Understand the database and Queue functions
- Quiz
Module 2 - Configuration Overview
- Review common initialization settings covering those for startup, execution, cross-platform workloads and security
- Determine the effects of these various settings on CA 7 processing
- Quiz
Module 3 - Workload Definition
- Identifying information required for job definitions
- Understand the order for defining workloads
- Using the job definition function
- Setting values to provide processing controls
- Quiz and Lab Challenge
Module 4 - Scheduling Jobs
- Understand scheduling in CA WA CA 7 Edition
- Creating base calendars and schedules
- The concept of Schedule IDs
- The Schedule Scan process
- Event driven triggering functions
- Quiz and Lab Challenge
Module 5 - Defining Dependencies
- Identify the various types of dependencies
- Creating user, job and dataset dependencies
- Mutually exclusive processing
- Quiz and Lab Challenge
Module 6 - Using Virtual Resources
- The concepts of Virtual Resources
- Virtual Resource types
- Creating and using Virtual Resources
- Settings to manage Virtual Resources
- Quiz and Lab Challenge
Module 7 - Monitoring and Managing
- Using displays to monitor active workloads
- Action functions to manage active workloads
- Performing problem root cause analysis
- Restarting failed workloads
- Handling on-request workloads
- Forecasting functions for daily planning
- Quiz and Lab Challenge
Module 8 - Automating JCL
- Use of JCL libraries in CA 7
- Defining and using Global Variables
- Functions of CA 7 JCL control cards
- Automating JCL updates through CA Driver
- Quiz
Module 9 - ARF Overview
- Understand the concept of ARF and ARFSETS
- Displaying active ARFSETS
- Determine possible uses of the functionality
- Quiz
Module 10 - Reporting and Graphs
- Historical reporting
- Automated Performance Analysis Graphs
- CA Easytrieve reporting
- Quiz
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.