Autosys Adaptor Sap Product Brief

PRODUCT BRIEF: CA AUTOSYS WORKLOAD AUTOMATION ADAPTER FOR SAPCA AutoSys® Workload Automation Adapter for SAP CA AUTOSYS® WORKLOAD AUTOMATION ADAPTER FOR SAP (CA AUTOSYS WA ADAPTER FOR SAP) SEAMLESSLY INTEGRATES CA WORKLOAD AUTOMATION ENGINES WITH THE SAP COMPUTER CENTER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (CCMS) SCHEDULER TO EXPLOIT THE ROBUST FUNCTIONALITY OF CA’S WORKLOAD AUTOMATION SOLUTION AND SCHEDULE SAP JOBS ACROSS APPLICATIONS AND PLATFORMS. Overview This product leverages Universal Adapter technology to provide a centralized point of control for defining, starting and monitoring SAP jobs, recording statuses and even stopping jobs on one or multiple SAP servers for multiple SAP instances. In addition, you can incorporate SAP jobs into non-SAP work. Benefits CA Universal Adapter technology enables you to schedule SAP jobs across platforms and applications. As the master scheduler, it streamlines operations by consolidating the job management function in a single user interface. CA Advantage For more than a decade, CA has designed, deployed and managed production workloads across some of the largest and most complex IT environments in the world. CA Workload Automation is part of CA’s vision for Enterprise IT Management (EITM), which helps you unify and simplify IT management across the enterprise for better business results. CA Workload Automation is the industry standard for cross-platform workload automation. performance.Managing Complex. centralized coordination of your scheduling environment has become increasingly complex due to the rapid deployment of packaged applications. Key Capabilities ENTERPRISE-WIDE JOB MANAGEMENT Manage and control SAP work flows with other application work flows across the enterprise (see Figure A). It enables you to exploit the robust functionality of the CA Workload Automation solution. Any of CA’s job management engines can act as the master scheduler. tracked and monitored by CA Workload Control Center. Notifications can convey important information by sending an email or issuing a message to the operator’s console. These jobs would be administered. CA AutoSys WA Adapter for SAP allows you to simplify job management by integrating and automating components across the enterprise. Enterprise-Wide Application Work Flows Driven by the need for true. It can coordinate activities across your environment to maximize resource utilization and prevent activities of different applications from interfering with one another. date/time conditions and other scheduling features can now be managed across applications. as well as internally developed applications. packaged application schedulers or talk directly to the applications. a UNIX SAP job can trigger an FTP job that triggers a job on the mainframe. companies like yours are deploying infrastructure management tools to help support these applications. driving all scheduling across your enterprise. Alarms can be monitored and managed in the CA Workload Control Center. such as SAP. enterprise-wide job management. Oracle and PeopleSoft. and schedule SAP jobs across applications and platforms. One Scheduling Solution for the Entire Enterprise CA AutoSys WA Adapter for SAP enables CA’s job scheduling engines to act as the master job management system for all job processing in your environment. As this occurs. ALARM NOTIFICATION 2 PRODUCT BRIEF: CA AUTOSYS WORKLOAD AUTOMATION ADAPTER FOR SAP . since most of these packaged applications come with their own embedded scheduling capabilities. visibility and business relevance. The success of an SAP job can trigger non-SAP Application jobs or other SAP Application jobs on the same platform or on another system in the enterprise. Your production and operations staff can benefit from only having to learn one job management solution and they can efficiently monitor work flows through a consolidated Job Management user interface. This enables you to reduce human. Jobs can still be defined in the embedded scheduler. system error while improving availability. For example. MANAGE ONE SCHEDULER INSTEAD OF MANY COMPLEX JOB DEPENDENCIES Integration between CA Workload Automation engines and the CA Autosys WA Adapter for SAP fully supports work flow dependencies across applications and other system tasks. Alarm notifications can be defined to alert others if the SAP job fails. The challenge is to provide a central job scheduler that can drive the embedded. but dependencies. This presents a complex problem. 2 JOB MANAGEMENT SCHEDULER-INDEPENDENT Any CA Workload Automation engine. What’s New in Release 3. including generating an alarm. logging information. start. such as CA AutoSys® WA for SAP. Moreover. The following additional functionalities are also provided: JOB SCHEDULING ASSISTANT • Allows you to manipulate (for example.FIGURE A CA AUTOSYS WORKLOAD AUTOMATION ADAPTER FOR SAP Enterprise-wide. If an SAP job does not complete successfully. CA Jobtrac™ Job Management or CA Unicenter® Network and Systems Management Job Management Option. FAULT TOLERANCE Restart and recovery features are integral to CA’s enterprise job management design. InfoPackages or Process Chains directly without using a CA Workload Automation engine. REPORTING View current and historical SAP job reports and enterprise-wide work flow reports that include job failures and exceptions. you can save a template of your job definition so that you can add to the job scheduling database for later scheduling. Error recovery procedures can be invoked. cancel. CA Scheduler® Job Management. issuing an email notification or issuing a message to the operator’s console on the mainframe. cross platform job management is accomplished by seamlessly integrating with CA Workload Automation Universal Agents and CA Workload Automation Adapters. based on the workload • Displays current and forecasts future SAP work process resources PRODUCT BRIEF: CA AUTOSYS WORKLOAD AUTOMATION ADAPTER FOR SAP 3 . delete) all jobs defined in an SAP system or obtain information regarding job status. spool output and job step information • Provides a method for creating or updating SAP variants for ABAP/4 programs • Allows you to temporarily switch SAP operation modes. can work with the CA AutoSys WA Adapter for SAP. This Java-based GUI utility provides templates to initiate SAP jobs. the job can be automatically restarted. CA 7® Workload Automation. 4 PRODUCT BRIEF: CA AUTOSYS WORKLOAD AUTOMATION ADAPTER FOR SAP . Simplify and Integrate CA AutoSys WA Adapter for SAP simplifies cross-platform and application dependencies by integrating SAP specific workloads with non-SAP workflows and processes in order to expand the delivery of critical processes across the enterprise more efficiently. PROCESS CHAIN SUPPORT Schedule and monitor SAP Process Chains that are available in both SAP Business Warehouse and SAP Advanced Planner Optimizer InfoPackages. providing the ability to add or remove SAP jobs to be intercepted JAVA-BASED CONFIGURATION ASSISTANT This Java-based GUI utility allows you to configure the CA AutoSys Workload Automation Adapter for SAP in either Windows or UNIX environments. and changes in job status. reliable and secure business process management. This utility allows you to define additional scheduling engines to work with your SAP environment.• Defines search criteria and retrieves XMI log entries to determine how job data was altered and who altered it • Lists SAP jobs in a console format for easy monitoring and manipulation • Broadcasts messages to configured SAP systems • Maintains the SAP Job Interception Table. ENHANCED SAP VARIANT ADMINISTRATION BUSINESS WAREHOUSE AND ADVANCED PLANNER OPTIMIZER INFOPACKAGE SUPPORT Schedule and monitor InfoPackages for SAP Business Warehouse version 3. The solution brings a central point of control and visibility to assure efficient. Supporting business workload design and processing across platforms and operating systems. ENHANCED SAP JOB MONITORING Monitor the SAP CCMS scheduler to detect SAP job start and stop events. or to view and modify the existing configuration. Alerts can be sent to the CA Common Services Event Manager component for evaluation and a possible automatic response based on the event information. This utility can be scheduled and allows you to create new and update existing SAP variants in preparation for running SAP reports. CA Workload Automation helps you to align enterprise IT resources to improve service and manage risks and costs.6D. CA Advantage CA AutoSys WA Adapter for SAP is part of a comprehensive multiplatform Workload Automation solution from CA.0A and SAP Advanced Planner and Optimizer component of mySAP Supply Chain Management version 4. storage and systems across departments and disciplines to maximize the full potential of each. to optimize the performance.com/products. CA’s vision for enabling this higher level of management control is Enterprise IT Management (EITM) — a dynamic. and ensure that IT meets the business needs of the enterprise. security. 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