ECHO Client of CA GTS › Pre Job/STC Submission Setup

Pre Job/STC Submission Setup

You should consider the following items before running ECHO:

• ECHO reroutes CA Workload Automation message displays to z/OS consoles based on the ROUTCDE and CONSNAME parameters passed to the job/STC. Depending on the number of jobs scheduled, thousands of messages could be routed to a console. We strongly recommend that sites not route these messages to their primary or alternate master consoles. Sites should also check the route code settings for these consoles to ensure they do not accept route code 11, the ECHO default route code if none is provided. Also, if the route codes specified on the ROUTCDE parameter are disabled for a particular console and you specify that console's name in the CONSNAME parameter, it receives rerouted messages.

  Use the DISPLAY CONSOLES,ACTIVE operator command to see the names and route codes for all consoles (master, alternate, MCS, SMCS). The DISPLAY EMCS,FULL,CN=consname operator command provides detailed information for extended MCS consoles.

• Sites may want to consider automating responses to the CAGSEC602E, CAGSEC620E, CAGSEC624E, and CAGSEC625E error messages. Any of these messages cause ECHO to terminate.
• Because ECHO accepts MODIFY commands through CA GTS, you should review who can issue this command. The MODIFY command can have five options:
  1. STOP
  2. DISPLAY
  3. ROUTCDE(value)
  4. CONSNAME(value)
  5. TRACE(value)

     These options are discussed in detail later. Follow your site's conventions in determining the level of security granularity you want to assign these options.

• To receive CA Workload Automation product messages, set up the CA Workload Automation product to route its messages as if they were going to a Unicenter Event Console. Each product has its own methodology for doing this. The following shows where you can find this information:

CA 7 Workload Automation

The Master Station Message Routing (MSMR) capability performs this function. For more information about Routing Master Station (Browse) Messages to an Event Console, see the CA 7 Workload Automation Systems Programmer Guide. You must specify the CCI receivers from which you want to receive messages in the MSGRCNTL DD data set used by MSMR.

CA Scheduler

Event Console information describes the methodology for CA Scheduler. See the CA Scheduler Interfaces Guide.

CA Jobtrac

Event Console logging information describes the methodology for CA Jobtrac. See the CA Jobtrac Extended Scheduling Services Guide.

AutoSys JM

For information, see the AutoSys JM documentation.

NSM

This is active by default.

Universal Job Management Agent

This is active by default; controlled by the Console Daemon Node setting in the Job Management Agent Configuration.