Advantages of CA-7

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 Advantages of CA-7

If CA-7 Not Used:

·         Create the JCL for your job and move it into production.

·   Fill out a job information form or member that contains the desired schedule, requirements and follow-through for this job.

·          Give this information to operations to add to the daily schedule.

·   Operations manually verifies if the datasets were created and all prerequisites completed.

·         Job is then submitted at the proper time in the correct sequence.

·         At job completion, output must be reviewed for good completion codes

   By Using CA-7

·         CA-7 automatically reads in your job and stores a copy in its staging area(Trailer Queue)

·         CA-7  then attaches the predecessor requirements(I-e) Start time, dataset dependencies, job predecessors etc.

·         When all  are satisfied, CA-7 submits your job to MVS and reports back with completion status