CA-7 Scheduling Training

Who's it for?

Anybody who needs a good understanding of how batch work is defined and maintained on the CA-7 database. This could be a new job schedules or senior Ops involved in overnight problem analysis. Even auditors checking up of CA-7 security!

What do I expect!

Please don't come on the course if you haven't ever seen jobs running through CA-7. We don't go into basics on this course, that's why we have a basic course!

What does it cover.

• Defining Jobs
  There is a lot more to defining new jobs than you many think define! Here we go through everything including the default job, all the LJOB parameters, batch terminal syntax etc.
• Setting up Job and dataset triggers
  Triggers can be very straight forward, but when schedule IDs, trigger IDs and all the time parameters are included it gets more involved.
• Setting up Job Schedules and Calendars.
  We could spend the whole course talking about Job Schedule screen options. Would you be able to schedule a job 3 working days before the last Wednesday of the month, but only if the month didn't end on a Friday! By the end of the course you could do it, whether you needed to or not!
• Dataset facilities and problems
  CA-7 monitors all dataset activity and can make some very strange decisions on the information it receives. We go through what is happening and why.
• External Communication
  The batch terminal can be used to solve so many different types of problems. We go through some of these giving you a taste of what can be done.

Material

All students receive a 120 page full colour course handout and a quick reference card and 6 reference charts.

Duration

Normally this on-site course is 2 days.