Complements Will Get You Everywhere: How Do CA Workload Automation iDash and CA Workload Automation AE SP4 Complement Each Other?

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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

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Abstract
Join this session to learn how some of the features in SP4 (and
SP3) of CA Workload Automation AE will boost your
performance and efficiency when coupled with CA Workload
Automation iDash. Hear how a leading provider of consumer,
business-to-business and industrial digital imaging solutions
uses both to gain efficiency and reduce the time and cost of
managing mission-critical workloads.
Jack
McCarrick
Senior IT
Consultant
eClaro, Inc.

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

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

Agenda
“IF YOU USE CA WLA IDASH……”
“WAIT A MINUTE!”
CLOSING
SERVER STATS / LATENCY
“FLOWS”
REPORTING
1
2
3
4
5
6

Do You Use CA WLA iDash?
§ If so, you will be familiar with screens like these…..

Dashboard:

SLA list:

REPORT list:

You may run a JOB RUN Report?
And get Output Similar to the Following……

Sample
HTML
output
NOW…. HOLD THAT THOUGHT!!......

Let’s Look at CA WLA AUTOSYS......(via WCC)

REPORTING Tab has no Contents:
“Base
Release”
11.3.6

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 ……

New REPORT Tab:
“Report
Templates”
Various Types
are
Available

So, Let’s run a Job Run REPORT

WAIT!! It looks like CA WLA iDash REPORT:

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????

“Well……. In a word …..
YES !

“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…

“Complementary” Areas
§ LATENCY / PERFORMANCE diagnosis
§ “FLOWS” (you know.. Charts!)
§ REPORTING ( a huge function )

“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?)

OVERALL
Performance

§ 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”

EXAMPLE:
Run the
THROUGHPUT
Report

Select
ALL
MACHINES

MAYBE ????

”FLOWS”
CA WLA iDash Displays Job Flows!
SLA Job and
all Critical
Path
Predecessors

”FLOWS” (continued)
Go to CA WLA AutoSys (SP4 or higher)…..

”FLOWS”
CA WLA AutoSys is not Limited to Predecessors:
Shows
whatever is
in the VIEW
you are
querying
Get
“FULL
PICTURE”

”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

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” !!

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!

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..

Statistics being ‘Aggregated’ Hourly, Daily
Automatic aggregation of Stats empowers the
REPORTS (Templates) provided in SP4 and higher

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

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

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

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