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XPJOB Conversion Utility for Agents

The conversion utility converts existing XPJOB jobs that run on UNIX or Windows operating environments to agent jobs. The utility provides a semi-automatic mechanism for changing your XPJOB jobs to agent jobs. The utility maintains any schedules, triggers, and requirements associated with the original XPJOB definition.

The conversion process has a number of conditions and rules so that the conversion from an XPJOB to an AGJOB completes successfully.

Note: For more information about XPJOB conversion, see the CA WA CA 7 Edition Interface Reference Guide.

The following is an overview of the conversion process:

• Part 1

  Make backup copies of existing XPJOB PARMLIB members.

  Generate a BTI file of LJOB and LJCL statements for each XPJOB meeting selection criteria.

• Part 2

  Generate the following:

  • The conversion file (BTI file necessary to convert XPJOB jobs to agent jobs).
  • XNODE and XPSWD cleanup file (BTI file to clean up XNODE and XPSWD entries).
  • User ID/password file (used to create agent user IDs and passwords).
• Part 3

  Convert the XPJOB jobs to agent jobs.

• Part 4

  Using the AGPSWD command, update the IASCKPT file with agent user IDs and passwords.

• Part 5

  When satisfied with conversion, clean up XNODE and XPSWD entries.

Note: For more information, see the CA WA CA 7 Edition Interface Reference Guide.

The conversion utility does not handle jobs going to UJMA adapters such as SAP. Convert these jobs to an appropriate job type, such as SAP_JOB.

For example, a CA7TOUNI or XPJOB executing the SUBFILE/XP EXEC sapjob has PARMnn coded to specify the SAP job name, report parameters, variants, and so forth. The CA WA agent job type is SAP_JOB. The parameters you may see coded include the following:

For CA7TOUNI or XPJOB jobs executing SUBFILE sapipkg (SAP InfoPackage), the job type is BWIP_JOB (Business Warehouse InfoPackage) and the parameters include the following:

For CA WA Agents, a PARAM control language keyword lets you specify various options.

For SAP Process Chains capchain, the job type is BWPC_JOB (Business Warehouse Process Chain) and the parameters include the following:

For SAP casapvar, update or create variants, no conversion is available.