CA Tuesday Tip by Lucy Zhang, Principal Support Engineer for 05/11/2015 and updated on 07/21/2016
Agent related:
RO72049: Support AES 256 encryption of communications with agents. AES 256 encryption keys are defined via the CRYPTKEY command, and the KEYNAME can be specified in an agent definition.
RO70124: Support for the MICROFOCUS Agent.
RO81658: Values of JCLContent or JCLReference Application statements of MicroFocus Jobs (MF_JOB) will be displayed by LISTAPPL and APPLJOB commands, including the LJE command.
RO68947: Support for the INFORMATICA Agent.
RO67952: Support for the MS SQL Agent.
RO63031: The TANDEM_JOB job type should be updated for the CCI-based NonStop Agent. This agent adds new optional keywords and it also can create a spool file, job log file, output file and error file to be retrieved and displayed by CA Workload Automation ESP Edition.
RO81392: Display of ChildPid values sent by the Tandem (Nonstop) Agent will be added to LISTAPPL and APPLJOB commands, including LJE command.
RO59906: PeopleSoft DISTRLISTROLES and DISTRLISTUSERS statements have maximum lengths of 256; that will be increased to 4078 to accomodate longer lists.
RO70180: DYNAMIC AGENT CONFIGURATION, see Tuesday tip “Tuesday Tips: (CA ESP) RFE - Change agent definition dynamically & Retrieve Agent Info”:
https://communities.ca.com/docs/DOC-231149338
RO74243: Support for USS File trigger. You can use a USS file path and USS keyword instead of data set name on the event level DSTRIG command or in the DSNAME statement for a DSTRIG workload object. Note: please apply RO80514 together.
RO77157: Retrieve Spool File command (WSF) is enabled in Informatica Job. Also, the Restart Workflow command now has an option of restarting from a selected Task.
RO82303: Application statement OSUSER is added to FTP_JOB, SCP_JOB and SFTP_JOB. New application statement KEYFILE is created for SCP_JOB and SFTP_JOB. Application statement TRANSFERCODETYPE (alias FTPFORMAT) is added to SFTP_JOB, but only values of A and B will be accepted, everything else will be ignored.
RO81816: Web Services DOCUMENT/LITERAL Job Type.
RO82898: This enhancement adds SAF authorization checking for AGENT and AGENTUSR resource profiles in Simulation. All relevant error messages will have the application name and the job name displayed. Also, all "invalid agent" messages will have the job name displayed as well.
RO86662: Support the Hadoop Advanced Intergation for System Agent. Hadoop file operation (HDFS_JOB), Oozie (OOZIE_JOB), Sqoop (SQOOP_JOB) and Hive (HIVE_JOB) job types are added.
RO87041: Cancel Job command has been added to Tandem_Job, NT_Job and all UNIX job types: AIX_Job, HPUX_Job, LINUX_Job, SUN_Job and UNIX_Job.
RO88778: The maximum lengths of application statements CMDNAME and SCRIPTNAME will be increased from 100 characters to 256 characters.
Report/Display related:
RO72634: A NEW FIELD 'EVENT' HAS BEEN ADDED TO HISTORY REPORTING FIELDS. It represents the Event Name.
RO76366: This enhancement adds two optional fields to the DISPLAY operand of the JOBMAP command: AGENT_TYPE and AGENT_DESCR.
RO63641: This enhancement makes the following fields available in JOBMAP reports: DUEOUT, SAPJOBNAME, STARTMODE, JOBCOPY, CHILDMONITOR and CHAIN. When DUEOUT field is requested, JOBMAP reports all DUEOUT and LATESUB settings for each job. DUEOUT applies to all job types. The other new fields are available in SAP jobs. To populate the new fields, a MAPGEN job must run with this fix applied.
RO76602: New field Application Description has been added to the APPL statement. It is displayed in Simulation and by LISTAPPL commands. It is displayed by JOBMAP commands if DISPLAY(APPL_DESCR) is specified.
RO76447: This enhancement adds IP address of sender to the error message ESP507E.
RO77765: This enhancement enables users to display USER1-4 variables in the output of LISTAPPL(LAP) or LISTSCH(LSCH) commands.
RO77978: This enhancement changes the occurrence of informational message
"ESP6106I Next execution of Event e not scheduled: unsuccessful CYCLING"
The message ESP6106I will be issued only when a real problem occurred during cycling of an event to avoid user confusion.
RO83855: The LAPX command output is limited to 99 jobs. This enhancement extends the output limitation 99 jobs to APPLBUF size. And now only reports the first job when a dependency loop is found.
RO84691: In messages 6055 and 6062, add previous job priority information.
RO83247: With this PTF assignment statement becomes in line with other statements and is not printed when under a false branch of IF-THEN-ELSE.
RO81833: When the SIMULATE command is entered in page mode, INFOMSG SET is internally executed so that informational, warning, and error messages display within the body of the screen instead of in the upper right corner of the screen.
RO87310: Show information about the user ID and date/time for an event being held/suspended last time.
RO89239: This enhancement provides the information about resource which caused the security error:
ESP1883E "Insufficient access authority for requested function on resource <resource name>"
ESP internal function related:
RO72017: The timing of access to the shared QUEUE data set will be set by ESP internally. The initialization parameters that used to control this timing, MINHOLD, MINDORM and MAXDORM, will be accepted for compatibility, but will be ignored.
RO67513: Corruption in the resource file can cause repeated abends until the file is reformatted. This fix introduces automatic verification and repair of the resource file after an ESP abend.
RO84847: This PTF enables Workstation logon with a single-use passticket in place of a regular password.
RO88003: This enhancement makes specifying the JESNODE optional because it will set it automatically, if JESNODE is not specified.
RO79802: PREVENT SHARING OF RSVLOGIC BY MULTIPLE MASTERS
RO81067: Agent communications use the checkpoint file to notify application manager about sent, delayed or flushed messages. Spikes in the number of these notifications can fill the checkpoint. This fix eliminates the use of checkpoint for agent traffic feedback.
Others:
RO70061: To coordinate workload between ESP masters, if a specific resource count is updated, a notification message will be sent to all relevant ESP masters. See attached doc.
RO70737: Full support for Restful web service that executes an ESP command. To enable this feature, the new WEBPORT parameter must be added to the WSSPARM configuration data set.
RO72998: This enhancement enables users of the RERUNM command and of the RM CSF line command to exclude a job from a rerun multiple request by placing a minus sign before the job name in the list of root jobs.
RO78451: The AUDITLOG initparm statement will accept a new parameter, DEST, to specify the destination of the log. Once the auditlog sysout file is deallocated, for example by a SPINLOG
command, JES will send the file to the specified destination.
RO75777: This enhancement provides the ability to use ESP command processor as a host command environment in REXX. It is intended for use in REXX programs under CA OPS/MVS. The module name representing the command environment is CYBJS052.
RO78156: Improved integration with CA OPS/MVS: new command CALLOPS creates an API event in OPS/MVS with a user-defined event id suffix. It is available for use in ESP procedures.
CALLOPS MESSAGE('message text') [RULESUF(suffix)]
RO77695: Jobs inserted into an active application via IW or APPLINS command are defined using ESP procedure language. The text of the definitions is stored in the application record but the BP command in CSF does not show it. This enhancement enables display of inserted text by BP (Browse Procedure) command.
RO69717: Enhancement for CYBESUT3:
- The user will not have to start ESP quiesced in order to format a new application file
- The user will be able to update the existing JOBINDEX file in-place instead of creating a new JOBINDEX file, if requested. The new optional parameter NONEWINDEX will be introduced to support this feature. The sample member CYBESS18 describing the CYBESUT3 JCL has been updated to reflect these changes.
RO78041: This enhancement enables users to see the calculated values of SCHEDULED or SCOPE parameter for an external job. These values can be displayed by the LJE command in CSF or using AJ LIST command to display detailed information about the specified external job.
RO73721: A new optional SUBAPPLS keyword operand has been added to the TRIGGER and SIMULATE commands.
RO75729: This enhancement enables users to see jobs with HOLD attribute in simulation output along with a hold reason if it was provided. The new section of simulation output starts with the label MANUAL HOLD JOBS and it is present only if there is at least one job with HOLD attribute selected for submission.
RO77815: Jobs inserted into an active application via IW or APPLINS command are defined using ESP procedure language. The text of the definitions is stored in the application record and cannot be modified. This enhancement enables editing of inserted text by EP (Edit Procedure) command in CSF.
RO81648: For the SIMULATE command, check and issue a message for RESOURCEs that are not defined. Resources will only be checked on jobs selected for submission. Issue message 4437I for each undefined resource.
RO89165: When user mode 196 is turned on, ESP doesn't check existence of resources in simulation.
RO78611: This enhancement allows users to see the correct data set name from which the job's JCL was pulled if there is a DD name used on JCLLIB or TEMPLIB statement.
The new format of JCL FROM line in the submitted job's log follows:
'JCL FROM DD NAME (if any) - DATA SET NAME'
RO81837: For the SIMULATE command, check and issue a message for ALERTs and EVENTS associated with a NOTIFY statement, that are not defined.
NOTIFY statements will only be checked on jobs selected for submission. Issue message 4438I for each undefined event and message 4439I for each undefined alert.
RO82002: This enhancement enables users to retrieve job spool files archived in CA View database.
RO88215: EXTERNAL JOB can now have up to 64 characters in its job name. You can now use TASK or any non-MVS job with the name of up to 64 characters as a home job for an EXTERNAL JOB.