AutoSys Workload Automation

Hi Folks,

Have been curious for a while about this one, can anyone enumerate the differences between forecast and job_depends in WAAE for me?  I personally prefer the quality of output from forecast but it seems limited in that it does not support forecasting by application or group

Also... does anyone know why job_depends is available via client but forecast must be run only on core component servers (technical reason)?

When you run job_depends is the heavy lifting done by the application server or by the client machine?

What do most of you turn to for predicting runs during future windows (e.g. job_depends vs. forecast vs. reporting on the same window last week/month via db query etc.)?

Just curious. 

Thanks all.

Hi Scott,

The job_depends command is a client component that provides detailed reports about a job's dependencies and conditions. You can use this command to determine the current state of a job, its job dependencies. For a box job, you can use this command to determine the nested hierarchies specified in the definition. This command can generate a report of what jobs run during a given interval.

While the forecast command reports job flows based on a date or date range. Forecast reports can help you predict the outcome for a set of predefined conditions. You can see what happens when values are changed for each forecast period and can use this information to plan workflow. Based on the current job definitions, the reported job flow displays a list of jobs predicted to run on the dates you specify.

The forecast report displays day-based jobs and event-based jobs that are expected to occur during a specified time frame of any length. The memory the system uses to generate a forecast report is directly correlated to the length of the time frame, the number of jobs that are scheduled to run during that time frame, and the types of those jobs.

job_depends is useful to debug and investigate the job dependency when a job is not started as expected.

While forecast is more adapted for the job flow in a time range and SLA management.

You can consult the following docops pages for more information:

https://docops.ca.com/ca-workload-automation-ae/11-4-2/en/reference/ae-commands/monitor-and-report-on-workload/job_depen… 

https://docops.ca.com/ca-workload-automation-ae/11-4-2/en/reference/ae-commands/monitor-and-report-on-workload/forecast-… 

I hope this can help.

Thanks,

Roya

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