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Batch Options

You can run CA Auditor as a background or batch job. Using the batch options, you can:

• Schedule daily jobs
• Perform monitoring functions
• Execute long‑running displays without losing the use of your terminal

For example, you can use the batch options to perform an analysis of the SMP/E CSI in the background while you remain logged onto TSO in the foreground.

To use these options, your site must run ISPF/PDF Version 2 Release 3 or later.

The batch options (or batch job facility) also lets you:

• Detect unauthorized updates or viruses more easily because changes in key system libraries can be found by scheduling the freeze and compare functions daily.
• Produce reports of your choice on a regular basis without logging onto TSO.
• Automatically schedule CA Auditor batch jobs as part of the production work load.
• Run batch jobs during off hours when system work loads are lighter.
• Send preconfigured scripts ahead and have them executed before the internal auditors arrive.
• Establish a centrally developed and managed audit procedure for CA Auditor.
• Automate SMF audits by creating and reusing the same JCL scripts.

The Batch Job facility requires that you create, modify, and submit JCL to execute a batch job. The JCL tells CA Auditor what options you selected. These options describe the order in which you want to perform particular CA Auditor functions. The output of the batch job is routed to the destination of your choice (SYSOUT or a data set on disk).

CA Auditor in batch runs the same way as CA Auditor online. The batch JCL establishes the background TSO environment and executes CLISTs to start ISPF/PDF and CA Auditor in batch. Each of these programs (TSO, ISPF/PDF, and CA Auditor) requires certain data sets, which are normally allocated through CLISTs and your TSO logon procedure in an online environment. Before CA Auditor can run in batch, you must execute CA Auditor online at least once so that it can create your batch JCL using these data sets.