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CA XCOM Data Transport contains an interface to CA's popular mainframe scheduling package, CA 7 Workload Automation Smart Console Option. The interface is used only with incoming file transfers, and is enabled by specifying CA7EXIT=YES in the CA XCOM Data Transport Default Options Table. When the interface is enabled and the transfer is of type TYPE=SCHEDULE, CA XCOM Data Transport, using the CA 7 facility U7SVC, reports to CA 7 that a file has been updated successfully. The user has the option of using this file creation as a CA 7 trigger for other jobs.
Note: Transfers of type TYPE=EXECUTE cannot use the U7SVC facility even when CA7EXIT=YES is specified in the Default Options Table.
Using the previous payroll example, consider the following scenario:
A series of payroll jobs must run to print salary checks and calculate tax payments. These jobs cannot run until all the departments have reported their employees' time for the week.
This information is kept on various midrange and smaller systems located in each department. It is agreed that the departments will transfer the records as soon as they are accumulated and will give them a file name unique to each department. If the CA XCOM Data Transport CA 7 interface is enabled, CA XCOM Data Transport informs CA 7 each time a file is created, allowing CA 7 to use all of those files as triggers for the payroll batch stream. In this manner, the payroll stream does not start until all necessary files are in place.
Important! Using this interface, you might get a CA7DATA DD statement error and an IEC1301 error message unless you specify DCB=(BLKSIZE=80,RECFM=F,LRECL=80) on the CA7DATA DD card.
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