Documentation Changes

A number of enhancements and small programming changes occurred in r11.3 after it was announced as Generally Available (GA). This topic is a brief summary of these enhancements. For more information, see the CA 7 page in Support Online.

Performance Metrics (RO46400)

The enhancement introduces the gathering of specific CA Workload Automation SE data to capture metrics about how the online system (CA7ONL) address space is performing work. Writing new log records to the log files is part of this data gathering. These records are then used as input to a new SASSHIS8 report 25. Also, refer to the initialization file INIT statement, METRICS= keyword, and the /DISPLAY,PERF= command.

Web Client (RO30845 RO32830, RO37930, RO47077, RO49540, RO51291, and RO51292)

The CA 7 Web Client is designed to enable a customizable management by exception approach to managing the flow of work on multiple systems. By letting you visualize and respond to business critical events rapidly, the CA 7 Web Client supports your ability to respond to business critical issues quickly. The CA 7 Web Client continues to further the process of aligning workload automation functions with IT business services and providing a self-service management model.

Predictive CPM (RO52585, RO52586, and RO53740 for CPM)

This enhancement lets CPM track critical path flows even when the starting job of the flow fails to reach the ready queue. This feature is referred to as Predictive CPM. The feature requires using the JFM component with the new PREDICTFLOWS option enabled.

Initialization File CALENDAR Statement Order (RO48651)

During the initialization file processing, we were not checking the correct placement of the CALENDAR statement. The CALENDAR statement must come after the CPU statements.

CA7TOUNI to XPJOB to AGJOB Conversion Utilities (RO53097)

The CA7TOUNI preconversion utility has multiple enhancements. These enhancements include accepting JCL INCLUDE and SET statements that span lines or SET statements containing multiple name and value pairs on a single line.

Support for CA WA Agent for HP Integrity NonStop (RO55172, RO55173, and IAS RO54616)

This enhancement provides compatibility with the CA WA Agent for HP Integrity NonStop. You can now create job definitions for the HP Integrity NonStop jobs using the NONSTOP_JOB agent job type.

CA IAS AES256-bit support for agents (RO52578, RO52577)

Communication with CA WA Agents using AES 256-bit encryption is supported. The encryption definitions in the IASCRYPT DD can now have 64-character keys and specify TYPE(AES256) to indicate to use the larger encryption type. You can change your agent definitions to point to these new encryption definitions.

ARF and Service Desk Ticket Generation (RO48632)

This enhancement provides a method for ARF (ARFOVER=) to determine whether to generate a Service Desk ticket when using the CA Service Desk interface.

Job name added to SP07-21 (RO47522)

This enhancement now places the job name at the end of the SP07-21 message.

/DISPLAY,DB=LOG (RO55983)

This enhancement now displays the names of the log files.

Display XU83 table (RO55904)

With an ICOM modify command or reply to the WTOR, you can display the XU83 table with the command D=XU83.

ADDAGENT Parameter for CA IAS (RO56523)

The ADDAGENT keyword is new on the MANAGER statement of the IASAGENT agent definition file. ADDAGENT lets you specify a potential number of agents to add between the recycling of the scheduling manager. The default value lets you add five agents.

Note: For more information, see the CA Integrated Agent Services Implementation Guide.

Jobflow Monitor corrections and improvements (RO55212, RO55213)

These enhancements implement support for queries that components other than CPM use.

Last Run Date Update (RO58316)

This enhancement provides tools to transfer the last run date and time for selected jobs from one CA 7 database (remote) to the corresponding job names in another CA 7 database (primary).