Job Dependencies Across Multiple CA7 Instances

Products

• CA 7 Workload Automation

Issue/Introduction

How do I allow job dependencies across CA 7 instances? 

Environment

WA CA 7 Edition

Resolution

You can define a job in the external tracking table, SASSEXTL to track a job submitted by another instance of CA 7.  You will need to implement the following: 

SASSEXTL – External task/job tracking table,  see member AL2UM34 in CAL2OPTN library. 

SASSEXTT – Model queue record for the externally tracked job/task,  see member AL2UM35 in the CAL2OPTN library. 

CAS9INIT – Update your L2OPTS statements to include the following: 

           EXTTRK7(Y) - This option allows tracking jobs submitted by another CA7 instance. 
           XJOB(SASSEXTL) – Loads your external tracking table for this instance. 

Additional Information

ICOM must be running on all LPARs where the externally tracked jobs may run. The CAS9INIT including the options noted above must run on all LPARs where these ICOMs exist. 

Tracking external tasks can have an impact on CA Workload Automation SE performance. This impact is because of the additional SMF records that are processed. 

External tasks are not included in workload balancing, even though they are in the active queue. 

External tasks cannot be used for negative dependencies.