Migrating to CA Workload Automation - Consolidation and Conversion Considerations

Migrating to CA Workload Automation Consolidation and Conversion Considerations

Tony Morelli, Vice President Solutions Delivery Cetan Corp

MFX10S #CAWorld

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Abstract

Attendees of this session will learn about the new features,

improved architecture and enhanced integration capabilities of

CA Workload Automation (CA WLA) as well as understand the

business value that can be obtained by migrating to these

solutions. During this session attendees will gain an

understanding of the Implementation Methodology and tools

used by CA and Cetan Corp that can help organizations

effectively plan, design and deploy their CA Workload

Automation solution and then migrate existing batch workloads

to the new environment.

Tony Morelli

Cetan Corp

Vice President


Why Convert? Business Needs & Technical Drivers

Install & Configure Conversion Tools & Processes

The Solution

CA Workload Automation Capabilities & Differentiators

Deploy & Support Enablement and Workload Activation

Planning & Design Agenda Agenda

How Do We Get There? Conversion Methodology Overview


Cetan Corp Overview

Quick Facts – Founded 2007

– Veteran Owned Small Business

– Native American Owned Minority Business Enterprise

– GSA Schedule Holder; #GS-35F-163BA

– Ranked 119 Overall in 2011 - Inc. 500 List of Fastest Growing Companies


Cetan Corp Overview

Quick Facts

– Founded 2007

– Veteran Owned Small Business

– Native American Owned Minority Business Enterprise

– GSA Schedule Holder; #GS-35F-163BA

– Ranked 119 Overall in 2011 - Inc. 500 List of Fastest Growing Companies

Partnerships

– CA Technologies

– BMC Software

– Microsoft

– Salesforce.com

Why Convert? Business Needs and Technical Drivers


Why Talk About Workload Automation?

“over 70% of business processes are performed in batch rather than real time.”

Stated by Industry Analyst in various research papers

It’s important

It’s detailed, labor intensive and the challenges are growing “…with the consumerization of IT, reliance on packaged applications, emergence of cloud, big data and mobile technologies the need to effectively manage and expand the integration between batch workloads and the rest of the enterprise is greater now than ever before.”

Tony Morelli – This presentation


Workload Automation Challenges

Silos of automation and scalability challenges

Reliance on outdated, home-grown, OS level / basic scheduling tools

Integration challenges between batch elements, real time workloads, FTP’s, Web, Databases, ERP’s, etc…

Inability to manage to an enterprise-wide batch service level or enable critical path monitoring

High OPEX & CAPEX due to different skill sets required for each platform/application and cost of various tools

Increased exception rate (failures, missed SLA’s) and elongated recovery times

Poor security controls and reporting

Mainframe Linux Windows UNIX ERP DB Web MQ FTP Evolutionary Trends

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Workload Automation Challenges

The Impact:

IT constrains the business versus serving as an enabler to growth and other objectives

Proliferation of ‘Stealth IT’, home-grown solutions and exponential growth in costs

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The Solution - CA Workload Automation

Databases Real Time Applications

Web Services Messaging

Java

UNIX

Cloud Enablement

Windows

File Transfers Other OS Types

Z/OS

ERP Applications

Business Intelligence

Mobile

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The Solution - CA Workload Automation

Over Three Decades of Experience & Evolution

Broad workload element support and enterprise coverage Scalable and resilient architecture Intelligent resource management and optimized workload

throughput Role-based administration and reporting Single definition for entire business workload Seamless application integration SLA-based management and reporting Robust support for SAP, Peoplesoft and Oracle applications Critical path analysis and forecasting Cloud computing support Self-service for workload management Mobile access Streamlined end user experience

How Do We Get There? Conversion Methodology Overview


Proven Methodology


How Do We Get There - Conversion Methodology

Plan and Design

• Project Planning and Readiness Review

• Project Team Education

• Establish Stakeholder Communication Plan

• Identify Business Requirements

• Create Solution Design

• Develop Training Plan

Install and Configure

• Deploy & WLA Components

• Build Housekeeping Processes & Reports

• Process Migration

– Conduct Gap Analysis of conversion tools

– Refine conversion tool(s)

– Reengineer customized processes

– Execute Conversion Process (see exploded view)

• Training and Enablement

Deploy and Support

• Parallel Testing

• Activation Support

– Phased approach versus ‘Big Bang’

• Post Activation Support and Review


How Do We Get There - Conversion Methodology Plan and Design
















Deploy and Support





Mitigating Risk Aligning the solution to the business Calibrating the plan with the organization’s need for

change along with its tolerance to do so Accelerating the ROI of the solution


How Do We Get There – Define Business Requirements

• Monitoring / Notification / Resolution

• Change Management Workflow

• Manual ‘Input’ to Daily Workload

• External Dependencies

• Third Party Automation Hooks

• Locally Developed Application Integration

Scheduling

Tools

• Proficiency in current tools

• Knowledge of workload and relationship to daily

milestones

Automation

Manual Processes

Collective ‘tribal’

Knowledge

R

I

S

K

The legacy scheduling tool is typically addressed via

automation and represents the least amount of risk in the

overall transition to a new solution


















Deploy and Support






How Do We Get There – Conversion Process

– Workload Change Freeze or Tracking

– Data Extraction

– Execute Conversion

• Pre Hand-Off Validation & Adjustment

• Load Results to run in ‘offline’ mode

• Remediate Conversion Exceptions

– Validation / Adjustment / Testing

– Parallel Testing

• Forecasting and Report Review

• Parallel Test Analysis

• Stakeholder Sign-Off

– Activation

– Post Activation Support

Process should be executed on a system and application basis

The decision to activate the converted workloads is the responsibility of the customer stakeholders

Following the execution of a targeted Pilot conversion these tasks can be executed in a concurrent fashion for multiple workload groupings


How Do We Get There – Conversion Tools & Processes

• CA 7

• CA ADC2

• CA AutoSys® (AE)

• CA dSeries (DE)

• CA ESP

• CA JobTrac

• CA Manager

• CA Scheduler® JM

• CA Unicenter WLM (JMO)

• ASG BETA42

• ASG ZEKE

• ASG ZENA

• BMC Control-M

• CRON

• IBM-TWS for DS

• IBM-TWS for z/OS

• Mantissa JobMaster

• OCS Express

• Orsyp $Universe

• Redwood Cronacle

• Robot Scheduler

• Stonebranch

• Tandem Scheduler

• Tidal Enterprise Scheduler

• UC4:Applications Manager (AppWorx)

• UC4:Operations Manager (UC4:Global)

• Windows-Task Scheduler

BOLD names indicate that an automated conversion process exists for CA PS and Partner engagements


How Do We Get There – Enablement

Train the Right People at the Right Time The role based enablement of key staff members and stakeholders is essential to the success of the conversion project


















Deploy and Support






How Do We Get There – Deploy & Support Workload Activation

• Final Readiness Review – Stakeholder Sign-Off Obtained – Change Management Processes Executed – Communication to the business – Ancillary Elements Staged – Operations and Application Support Teams in Place – CA Support Notified – CA WLA Infrastructure Reviewed – Optimal Cut-Over Time Identified – ‘Bridges’ Between Solutions In Place

• Activation – Produce Forecast Report for Targeted Workloads – Suspend Targeted Workload in Current Tool – Suspend Job Submission for Targeted Workload in CA WLA – Load Staged Workload in CA WLA – Load / Activate Ancillary Elements – Review Contents & Manually Reconcile Dependencies with Current Tool – Activate Small Segment of Loaded Jobs (resource based submission control) – Review Results & Adjust As Needed – Throttle Workload Up – Communicate Status to the Business

• Post Activation – Maintain ‘Heightened’ Level of Monitoring for Activated Workloads (two – three days) – Review Missing Dependencies and Jobs Not Run Reports – Adjust Exceptions – Recalibrate Plan for Remaining Groups to be Converted as Needed – Transition to Business as Usual for Converted Workloads


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