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Conversion Considerations

If you are upgrading UJMA nodes to agents, consider the following:

• Jobs executing on a UJMA node do not necessarily require a user ID and password. Most agent jobs require a user ID and password. Whether you use existing user IDs and passwords or create new ones, define them to CA WA CA 7 Edition through the AGPSWD top line command.
• Are you using the UJMA node name as the CA WA Agent name? This usage is possible when the UJMA node name is 16 bytes or less. For example, if your UJMA node name is NODEA, you can install CA WA system agent with an agent name of NODEA. This name permits the routing of CA7TOUNI or XPJOB jobs to the UJMA NODEA and agent jobs to CA WA Agent NODEA.
• Do UJMA failover procedures exist?
• Are you running adapters associated with UJMA? If so, you need CA WA Plug-ins to let jobs execute in a system like SAP or Oracle. No conversion utility is available to convert the UJMA adapter job to a CA WA Agent job.
• Define environmental variables to the CA WA Agent. If you use environmental variables on the agent or for a job, verify that you defined the appropriate environmental variables in one of the following:
  • The CA WA Agent environmental variable files
  • The parameters of the job (ENVAR keyword)
• The UJMA agent waits for all child processes to complete and returns the highest return code using the main process to the scheduling system. With the CA WA System agent, it does not wait for completion of all the child processes and sends only the return code from the main process. For scripts that spawn child processes, changes are sometimes required to the main process to wait for the child processes to complete and exit with the desired child process return code.
• With the CA WA Agent, code the full path name in the CMDNAME or SCRIPT that is to execute. If the agent is to search for the executable, set the oscomponent.lookupcommand agentparm.txt value to true. This setting causes extra overhead on the CA WA Agent to perform the lookup.

A conversion utility is available to convert UNIX or Windows XPJOB jobs to agent UNIX_JOB or NT_JOB jobs. If jobs use adapters such as SAP or Oracle, those jobs must be converted individually.

More information:

XPJOB Conversion Utility for Agents