How to Leverage CA Workload Automation AE for SAP® Scheduling

How to Leverage CA Workload Automation AE for SAP® Scheduling

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Karen Cleever, Sr. Principal Consultant CA Technologies

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Abstract

You have upgraded your CA Workload Automation AE (CA AutoSys®) infrastructure to 11.3.x but as an SAP user you now face these questions: – How do I move to the SAP plug-in?

– What are the differences?

– How and when will CA bridge those gaps?

– What are the new features that will help me automate my SAP tasks?

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Karen Cleever

CA Technologies

Sr. Principal Consultant


Agenda

ADAPTER VS PLUGIN

CONFIGURE THE PLUGIN

QUESTIONS

USING THE PLUGIN

LABS

A QUICK LOOK AT SOLUTION MANAGER

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Adapter vs Plugin


Why Change??

Certifications for new releases will be done to the plug-in

New technologies XBP 3.0, 64 bit will be done with the plug-in

New features will be implemented using the plugin

Continue use of adapter but start moving to the system agent and SAP plug-in


Command Job vs Metadata based job

Spool files vs std_out/err_file

Adapter config vs plugin config

3 binaries vs job types

Functionality Gaps

Adapter and SAP Agent plug-in differences

NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENCES


Adapter and SAP Agent plug-in differences: Some Issues

Connection information in the adapter is not converted

No configuration GUI

SAP users are defined in autosys_secure

No CA provided conversion utility


sapjob jil

insert_job: JobName

machine: localhost

command: sapjob +D PRD1 –m 100 –u BOB +j is_rprt COPY=YES +n 2 –r year_end

std_out_file: /tmp/my_sapjob.out

std_err_file: /tmp/my_sapjob.err


Plug-in jil

insert_job: SAPJC_job

job_type: SAPJC

owner: WAAESAP@sapagent

machine: sapagent

sap_job_name: AM


Are jobs created using CA Workload Automation AE (CA WA AE) or are

copies of jobs run

Is job interception used

Are the job naming features of the adapter used

Are Data Archiving and BDC used

sapipkg (InfoPackage Adapter jobs) or capchain (Process Chain Adapter

jobs) will map to the new 11.3 AutoSys job types called SAP BW

InfoPackage (SAPBWIP) and SAP BW Process Chain (SAPBWPC)

Conversion

Configuring the SAP Plug-in


All communication to SAP is thru agent

WCC

Agent/Plugin

SAP instance

RFC and jco calls

APIs


Properties and agentparm.txt

jco.client.ashost=usilsapdod

jco.client.sysnr=00

jco.client.client=800

#jco.client.lang=

jco.client.user=JIMC

jco.client.passwd=9C11675F9ED8322327


agentparm.txt

# Added by Installer for sap #sap.config.ignoreStartupFailures=true

#sap.default.language=EN

#sap.job.dump_ref.enabled=true

#sap.job.resubmission=false

#sap.useRegularExpressions=true

oscomponent.jvm.x.options=-

Xmx512M plugins.start_internal_11=sap

sap.connection.turbo.mode=true sap.default.destination=dod sap.job.children.cancel=true sap.job.children.delete=true sap.job.children.monitor=true sap.job.children.recursive=true sap.logon.interface=XBP sap.logon.product=Agent sap.logon.version=6.10 [email protected]

m sap.spool.api.SPOOL_LIST_PLAIN

=true


Why do I need ftp?

When a large amount od data is requested - an * response to the ABAP program search the agent determines whether to send the data or send the location of the data depending on the setting of sap.max.buffer.size.bytes

If a location is returned the WCC will use ftp to retrieve the data

If ftp is not configured as part of the system agent the lookup will fail


Spool files autosyslog -t S -J WAAE_SAP_TEST_1

==================================================================================

Output messages of R/3 workload object 751.35301_1/WAAE_WF0.1/MAIN

Start date: Sun Oct 12 12:53:24 EDT 2014

==================================================================================

20141012 12532449+0400 WA_AGENT2 JavaAgent#tcpip@PD1_SCH 751.35301_1/WAAE_WF0.1/MAIN RUN RFC Data(JOBDEFINE(Client=800,Jobname="WAAE_SAP_TEST_1",ChildMonitor=N,PutInOutbox=N,StartMode=A,User=jcondi,Password=) ABSTEP(ABAPname=RSPARAM,PPBannerPage=N,PPRelease=N,PPPrintImm=N,PPNewSpool=Y,PPFooter=N,Variant="TEST")) MFUser(jcondi) WOBRequestID(1A8758BFDF0A3FAB5130B3637B7B99301F24CB0D14131328044980)

STATE SUBMIT Jobno(12562401) Status(Job Open: Defined and Released) SetStart

STATE COMPLETE Cmpc(0) Status(Finished) SetEnd

Using the SAP Plug-in


Job types

Jobs in adapter were defined as command jobs

Plug in provides : – SAP Batch Input Session

– SAP Business Warehouse (BW) InfoPackage

– SAP Business Warehouse (BW) Process Chain

– SAP Data Archiving

– SAP Event Monitor

– SAP Job Copy

– SAP Process Monitor

– SAP R/3


Binaries/Job Types

Adapter Jobs Plug in

sapjob

sap

sapbdc

sapda

sapjc

capchain sapbwpc

sapifpkg sapbwip

sapevt

sappm

casapvar

casapopx


Lab 1 : Create a single step ABAP job

See Lab Handout


Lab 2: Convert an sapjob to a jobtype SAP

See Lab Documentation


Summary

Similarities:

Both provide integration with the SAP CCMS internal scheduler and SAP

BW

Both can execute SAP R/3 Jobs (ABAPs, monitor child processes)

Both can run and monitor BW InfoPackages

Both can run and monitor BW Process Chains

Both leverage the SAP Java Connector (JCo)and XBP and BW APIs to

integrate with SAP


Another method for managing SAP jobs

Create all job types from Solution Manager

Manage job documentation

Monitor from BP Monitoring

Integrate with Solution Manager Change Management and Incident Management

CA Workload Automation AE Advance Integration for SAP Solution Manager


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