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IntroductionThe automation demand on the datacenter has grown historically and continues to grow today. Different automation solutions are in place tosolve different kinds of problems:
. Solutions for automation of mainframe and midrange systems. . Solutions for automation of distributed systems (UNIX and Windows).. Solutions to automate within applications like SAP and Oracle.
Mergers and acquisitions can cause other issues. Products of other vendors and company specific applications have to be integrated into acommon infrastructure. Unstable bridges and complex interfaces must beconstructed to integrate these disparate solutions from different vendors. Tracking and monitoring of business processes from end to endbecomes a more and more complex task.
The deployment of one solution for all automation demands in your IT andbusiness processing can improve and accelerate monitoring, error analysis,usability, maintenance, updates, migrations, and reporting.
This document describes automation tools that are used in an organization,the problems of using different tools and the advantages of consolidating theminto a central automation solutions such as UC4 Workload Automation Suite.
Automation tools in an enterprise's IT Landscape................................... 2Problems using different automation Tools............................................ 4Advantages of a consolidated, central solution....................................... 5Additional benefits through UC4 Workload Automation Suite................... 7References........................................................................................ 9
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If you look at organizations that have grown, historically you will find different tools that have been implementedto automate IT workloads. These tools are often isolated from each other. They are managed and maintained bydifferent persons/departments with different skill sets. To manage enterprise-wide processes with these tools,complex interfaces have to be implemented and maintained.
The following tools can be consolidated into a central solution like UC4 Workload Automation Suite
Mainframe and Midrange Schedulers Mainframe and midrange job schedulers are tools that run directly on the mainframe and manage scheduling.Those tools come with high total cost of ownership due to the high maintenance fees, expensive CPU time, andthe employee resources required who are familiar with the operating systems and tools.
? zOS Examples:? iSeries (OS400, AS400) CA-7, CA Scheduler, CA Jobtrac, CA ESP? NSK BMC Control-M for zOS? GCOS8 OPC bzw TWS for Mainframe? BS2000 ASG Zeke? MPE Robot? etc Multibatch NSK Scheduler
Scheduler for Distributed EnvironmentsMost distributed operating systems come delivered with very basic scheduling tools. Systems such as Windowsand UNIX are delivered WinAT and CRON. These tools are managed by experts for the specific operating systemand have no native cross platform integration. Smaller niche vendors provide scheduling tools that take over themanagement of distributed environments through the deployment of agents.
? Windows Examples: ? Unix Cron, WinAT? Linux CA Autosys, CA dSeries, IBM Tivoli ? VMS Workload Scheduler (TWS), Orsyp ? etc Dollar Universe, Tidal Enterprise Scheduler, BMC Control-M
2Scheduler for ApplicationsMost enterprise scale applications are delivered with an internal scheduler with limited functionality and visibilityto the application only. They are managed by expensive application administration experts for each particularapplication. The major issues with these internal application schedulers are that they are not integrated to otherenvironments and can not automate and control the entire process (filetransfer, wait for file, synchronize withother applications etc.).
? SAP Examples:? Orac... [download for more]
