Nationwide Insurance has gained significant efficiencies in automating workloads for Finance IT and HR IT applications by incorporating CA Workload Automation ESP (CA WA ESP) Templates as a coding standard. The CA WA ESP Template is an element that enables development teams to specify repetitive commands or statements once. By incorporating templates the Finance IT and HR IT teams have streamlined workloads for critical processes such as Finance Month End processing and Payroll. The reduced maintenance has resulted in a 40 percent reduction in the number of jobs and 55 percent reduction in number of "flows" for production support operations at Nationwide. The two primary utilization of CA WA ESP templates at Nationwide is for Automating Workloads for re-occurring processes and for job reuse across multiple applications. For more information on Mainframe solutions from CA Technologies, please visit: http://bit.ly/1wbiPkl

1. Mainframe
Simplifying Workload Automation by
Utilizing ESP Templates
Tony Strigari, Nationwide Consultant
Infrastructure Engineer
MFX06S @astrigari #CAWorld

2. Abstract
Nationwide Insurance has gained significant efficiencies in automating
workloads for Finance IT and HR IT applications by incorporating CA
Workload Automation ESP (CA WA ESP) Templates as a coding standard.
The CA WA ESP Template is an element that enables development
teams to specify repetitive commands or statements once. By
incorporating templates the Finance IT and HR IT teams have
streamlined workloads for critical processes such as Finance Month End
processing and Payroll. The reduced maintenance has resulted in a 40
percent reduction in the number of jobs and 55 percent reduction in
number of "flows" for production support operations at Nationwide.
The two primary utilization of CA WA ESP templates at Nationwide is for
Automating Workloads for re-occurring processes and for job reuse
across multiple applications.
Tony Strigari
Nationwide
Consultant,
Infrastructure
Engineer
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3. Agenda
CA WA ESP APPLICATION LIFECYCLE ENVIRONMENT CONFIGURATION
CA WA ESP VARIABLE TABLE
TEMPLATE FOR AUTOMATING RE-OCCURRING PROCESS
TEMPLATE FOR JOB REUSE
Q&A
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4. CA WA ESP Environment Configuration
ESP Development and Test
Libraries
ESPDPROC Data Sets - ESP Applications data set members OESP.FITP.ESPDPROC - ESP Applications
TEMPLATE Data sets - ESP Template data set members OESP.FITP.ESPDPROC – ESP Templates
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ESP Production Libraries

5. CA WA ESP Variable Table
Contains values references within the ESP Template
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6. Re-occurring Process: CA WA ESP Template Code
VGET Statements Retrieve Values from ESP Variable Tables
3 Parameters are required for the Template: QUAL, DELAY, and SUBAPP
2 Parameters are Optional for the Template: RUNS(), and RC()
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7. Re-occurring Process: CA WA ESP Application Code
FEFTRACK statements call ESP Templates passing in parameters
JOB Links create dependencies between calls to the Job
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8. Workload Director: Re-occurring Process
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9. Job Reuse and Dynamic Processing: ESP Template Code
VGET Statements Retrieve Values from ESP Variable Tables
3 Parameters are required for the Template: QUAL, DELAY, and SUBAPP
2 Parameters are Optional for the Template: RUNS(), and RC()
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10. Job Reuse and Dynamic Processing
FEFTRACK statements call ESP Templates passing in parameters
JOB Links create dependencies between calls to the Job
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11. Workload Director: Job Reuse and Dynamic Processing
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12. Summary
A Few Words to Review
Key topics
Environment configuration
to utilize CA WA ESP
Templates
Leveraging CA WA ESP
Templates for automation
re-occurring processes
Leveraging CA WA ESP
Templates for automation
job re-use across multiple
applications
Findings
Nationwide discovered that
utilizing templates enables
a simple approach for
Workload automation
which requires dynamic
changes for parameters
passed into an CA WA ESP
Job Definition
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Experiences
Utilizing templates enables
developers to reduce the
amount of code to develop
and support. Reducing
hours in the CA WA ESP
Application Development
Life cycle and Operations
support

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