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WA06 Workload Automation CA 7 RoadmapMARK WARREN
MAINFRAME PRODUCT MANAGEMENT
1.19.2020
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• Customers
• Vision and Roadmap
Agenda
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Customers
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Customers demand more
LOB demands and need for speed
Expectations of application performance
IT operations are highly constrained
Weeks to respond Expensive to serve Expensive to operate
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Workload Automation – API-Based Self-Service Automation
Use Case: As an app developer, I need to create and submit automation for application workloads, as part of our code delivery, so I can rapidly test and deploy our applications in production.
Line of Business Owner, Application Developer, Production Control Operator
Bottom Line:
Automate
application
workloads as
part of app
delivery cycle
Empower app developers to embed automation with apps
Deliver on-demand automation
Implement DevOps practices for faster deliveryBiz
Ag
ilit
y
REST APIs for automation• Rapid adoption
- Expedite development and deployment of apps and automation rules
- Embed automation within big data, ERP and other enterprise applications
- Easily meet process compliance with automated management of workloads
• Manage and monitor workload flows- REST APIs to create, update, monitor,
control, troubleshoot workloads
- Embed workload automation actions in application code
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Predictive and Historical Analytics for Enterprise CA Workload Automation
PROBLEM Need to know if any of our critical business
services are going to miss their SLAs
What can we do to prevent breaching of SLAs?
How do we identify and optimize business service flows to prevent future issues?
SOLUTION Analyze real-time workload information
Track and escalate prioritized issues
Correlate metrics via machine learning
Decision support for rapid triage and impact analysis
Automate customized analysis and recovery actions
Offer historical analytics for audit, optimization
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Vision and Roadmap
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CA Workload Automation CA 7®
Edition Roadmap
DELIVERED 12.1 PLANNED UNDER CONSIDERATION
Internal Job Numbers Increase
Agent Monitoring
Single Agent Refresh
Integrations with z/OS Common
Logger (replace JFM/ENF)
Reporting with SQL
Web Client
Networks Removal
JFM/JFI Removal from Web Client
Upgrade 11.3 to 12.1
Agents with Same Name
TRIM Process
Integration with ZOWE / Brightside
RESTful Web Services
Demand / Run
LQ
Cancel
Restart
SRC1-100 Message
DR Mode with iDash
PassTicket Support
RESTful Publish and Subscribe
Model
RESTful Web Services Commands
New Modern Web UI
AutoSys R12 Additional Support
Integration with Automic Automation
Intelligence
Continuous Delivery Model Adoption
z/OSMF
Single Site High Availability (HA)
Log Reporting
Resolve Processing
DB Back out Changes
Recovery using DB Log Files
DBT 10/20/30
Distributed File Watcher Table
Defining Agent Alternate
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(under consideration roadmap items are subject to change)
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BENEFITS
Delivered Feature PAIN
SOLUTION
Increase Internal Job Numbers
Support 32k Internal Jobs
• Installs, upgrades and maintenance are reduced
• Merge Copies of CA 7
• Internal restrictions removed and no recovery once 10k are reached
• Increase the Internal Job Numbers
• Alpha / Numeric Identifiers are now utilized
• Supports up to 32K jobs in the queues at any given time
• Reduces the number of copies required to support the
business
• CA 7 does not have any available Internal Job Numbers
• Recovery from this actions could take hours due to the
research required
• Too many copies of CA7 are required to support my
business
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BENEFITS
Delivered Feature PAIN
SOLUTION
Web Client
Support for 12.1
• Single Interface for Monitoring and Managing all CA 7’s in the Enterprise
• No Need for multiple tools
• Java Base
• AdoptOpenJDK / JRE support for zLinux
• Removed Job Flow Illustrator and Monitor
• Removed Networks
• Web Client 12.0 did not include Long Job Name Support
• Need a single point to Manage / Monitor all CA 7’s
• Need zLinux Support
• Resource Usage
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BENEFITS
Delivered Feature PAIN
SOLUTION
Agents
Deployment
• No need for unique agent names
• All agents can be deployed from a single stack
• No need for special deployment packages
• No requirements to update packages after delivery
• Deploying agents with same name
• Agents require a unique name preventing from standard
deployment• Agents can be deployed with the
same name
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BENEFITS
Delivered Feature PAIN
SOLUTION
Agents
Monitoring
• Not in the CA7 address space, no cost add-on
• Know when agents are available vs not available
• Recovery time
• Not in the CA7 address space, no cost add-on
• Being able to refresh a single agent versus having to refresh all
• Agent Monitoring
• Configurable to meet needs
• Issues WTO when failures take place
• New command
• Agents Disconnect from CA 7
• Not identified until Jobs are submitted to the failing agent
• Network issues
• Refresh a single agent
• Monitoring Agents connected to CA 7
• Refreshing a single Agent
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BENEFITS
Delivered Feature PAIN
SOLUTION
New Technology
z/OS Common Logger
• Reduction in CPU cycles
• Removes complexity
• Recovery time greatly reduced
• Removes ENF requirement
• z/OS Common Logger
• JFM resources
• ENF resources and recoverability
• Too Complicated
• Integrations with z/OS Common logger
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BENEFITS
Delivered Feature PAIN
SOLUTION
RESTful Web Services
API for Advanced integrations
• Supporting and embracing modern technologies
• Ease of integrations with third party solutions
• Adheres to the current CA 7 security
• Available via PTF for r12.1
• RESTful Web Services
• Supporting Demand, Run, Cancel, Restart, Release, Job
Status
• Adheres to the standard CA 7 Security
• Too many manual processes
• Need away to simplify integrations with ServiceNow etc.
• Would like to integrate CA 7 with Cloud Foundry
• Applications are requesting interface with CA 7
• RESTful Web Services
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BENEFITS
Delivered Feature PAIN
SOLUTION
Zowe CLI Integration
Distributed Command Line interface for CA 7 functionality
• Mainframe applications within a CI/CD pipeline can be treated identically to their distributed applications. Allowing
customers to no longer need special training when dealing with mainframe applications
• Reduction in burden on mainframe operations to handle application changes
• System Programs could also take advantage of command interface to adopt modern programming interfaces.
• Zowe / Brightside command line interface to interact with
CA 7, Job Monitoring, Control, and Scheduling
• Zowe / Brightside commands allow for integration into
automated CI/CD pipelines
• Companies are de-centralizing their workload scheduling
processes and want to use existing CI/CD pipeline
processes
• Application owners don’t want to have to learn mainframe
technology to just perform workload scheduling
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BENEFITS
Delivered Feature PAIN
SOLUTION
DR Mode with CA Workload Automation iDash
Disaster Recovery Option
• Will be able to see flows
• No longer running special reports to see what is going to execute
• Will be able to predict your flows
• Business will no longer be in the dark with executions
• DR Mode with CA iDash
• Will enable flows
• Predictive and Analytics will be active
• When going to DR no insight to the business
• Need to understand special flows
• Need to understand what is going to execute
• Will I still meet my SLA’s
• DR mode with CA iDash and CA 7
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Added Since R12.1 Available via PTF
Feature Description
SRC1-100 Message Message now includes the Calendar Name
PassTicket Support Functionality to Support PassTickets with Base CA 7
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In Progress
Feature Description
RESTful Publish and Subscribe Model Allowing applications to register and receive feedback from CA 7
RESTful Web Services ADDRQ , HOLD, REQUEUE, SUBTM, POST, SUBMIT, PRSCF, PRSQA, JCLOVARD, VERIFY, LQ, LJOB, LJOBR, QJCL
AutoSys R12 Support Current releases 11.3, 12.0 and 12.1 support using CCI today, this will enhance the interface with Web Services
Automic Automation Intelligence Seamless integrations with Automic Automation Intelligence
New CA 7 Web User Interface Redesigned and Modern User Interface
Continuous Delivery Model Adoption Adoption to include PTF’s as part of the base products as enhancements
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Planned
Feature Description
RESTful Web Services ADD, UPDATE and DELETE JOB Definitions
DBT 10/20/30 Improve the error messages when encountered
z/OSMF Ease of Installation, Maintenance and Configuration
Distributed File Watcher Table File watching defined in CA7
Defining Agent Alternate Allow agents to be defined with alternate name
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Under Consideration
Feature Description
Log reporting Providing details of before and after changes
RESOLVE Processing No longer require the resolve process
Data Base Back out Allow for back out process at a granular level, such as date, time, Jobname etc..
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No Longer Supported with R12.1 and forward
Feature Description
Networks Removed, Reduction of overhead
JFM / JFI Job Flow Monitoring and Job Flow Illustrator removed due to CPU consumption
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