Unicenter CA-Scheduler Job Management for VSE User Guide

1.2 How Unicenter CA-Scheduler Works
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Display the current values of Unicenter CA-Driver reserved variable
parameters
Change the values of any Unicenter CA-Driver reserved variable
parameters before each job's staging at workstation 39 is posted as
complete.
Unicenter CA-Scheduler assists in managing production job rerun/restart in
many different ways:
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A backout job can be automatically submitted to undo the effect of an
abended job.
A schedule can be automatically added to the workload when a job
abends. The schedule can include any number of jobs to recover from or
restart the abended job.
The Unicenter CA-Scheduler utility program can be embedded in the
production JCL after strategic job steps, and can trigger different recovery
schedules depending on the abended step.
Unicenter CA-Driver procedures can be developed to automatically
generate different job streams depending on the abending step when a job
is submitted for a rerun.
False job completion frequently occurs. It is a case in which a job appears to
have run successfully (that is, no abend conditions or fail code returned from
the job), but in reality the job did NOT run successfully. The evidence is on the
job output (job log), or in the contents of the report produced by the job, or in
a message issued to the operator console by the job. False job completion
could be very costly when passed undetected since Unicenter CA-Scheduler
could submit numerous successors to a job that appeared to have run
successfully. Through the Auto-Reply processing facility false job completion
can be automatically detected and prevented. This is done by checking
console output for a job before Unicenter CA-Scheduler posts the job as
complete.
Users can communicate with Unicenter CA-Scheduler in online or batch mode.
All of the Unicenter CA-Scheduler monitoring functions are available from the
operator console as well. Online access is supported for CICS, CMS and ICCF.
Unicenter CA-Scheduler users can be assigned three levels of authority to
control what they can and cannot do. Controlling schedules can be limited to
authorized users. Users can also be limited to controlling jobs at certain
stations.
Security exits are also available for enhanced protection.
Unicenter CA-Scheduler automatically updates the status of all CPU jobs in the
tracking file. Unicenter CA-Scheduler assigns status conditions to jobs to
indicate the state of their progress within production. Only authorized users
can issue the commands that alter the status of tasks performed at other
stations.
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