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Alchemy Enterprise Portal for CA AutoSys
Quick Start Guide
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Logging into Alchemy
Type in the URL for Alchemy Enterprise Portal into the address bar on your browser.
Enter your user id and password when prompted.
Contact the Alchemy administrator if you do not have the Alchemy URL or need an user account.
Quick Start Guide Alchemy Enterprise Portal for CA AutoSys P1
Welcome to Alchemy Enterprise Portal Alchemy puts full functionality of CA AutoSys Workload Automation System at your fingertips
with dashboards, metrics, charts and reports.
Alchemy is web portal software. You need only a web browser and a user account to access it.
Sidebar Menu
You can optionally hide the sidebar menu and expand
your main application area by appending ?hide_sb=yes
to your URL like this :
www.example.com/ats/?hide_sb=yes
Alchemy Home Page The initial Alchemy screen displays a status summary of all AutoSys jobs by machine.
Top level application options are available in the sidebar menu. Most common functions are
also available via the icons on the top bar.
Topbar Menu
Hover your cursor over the icons
to see a brief description
Quick Start Guide Alchemy Enterprise Portal for CA AutoSys P2
Customizing Alchemy
Alchemy Administrators may customize the menu options available as well as the initial application screen.
Alchemy displays only the options you are authorized to use which means your version of Alchemy home page may look
significantly different that the default landing page shown above.
Top Level Application Menus Alchemy displays main application options on the sidebar menu.
Most common functions are also available via the icons on the top bar.
Quick Start Guide Alchemy Enterprise Portal for CA AutoSys P3
Menu Option Description TopBar Menu Icon
Job Entry Box Type a job name pattern to quickly see a list of matchingjobs. Percent (%) is the wild-card.
Summarize Pull-down
Job Status Summary by Machine, Owner, Team or other job attribute (page 4)
Job Search Advanced Job Search by selected attributes (page 7)
Job Panel Display AutoSys jobs in a split panel with list of jobs on top and details of selected job in the bottom
Schedule Forecast Scheduled Jobs and their dependencies in report and graph formats (page 8)
Weekly Run Calendar
Displays Job Activations in a Weekly Calendar - color-coded by status (page 10)
Monthly Run Calendar
Displays Job Activations in a Monthly Calendar - color-coded by status (page 10)
Running Jobs List of Running Jobs
Failed Jobs List of Failed Jobs
Run History Job Run Advanced Search by Selected Attributes
Timeline Job Run Durations in a Gannt Chart format - color-coded by status (page 11)
Status AutoSys Status Dashboard (page 6)
Event Monitor Monitor AutoSys Events in real-time (page 12)
Event Search Advanced Event Search by selected attributes
New Job Pull-down Create a new job of selected type (page 15)
Job Overrides Job Override History
Active Overrides Currently Active Job Overrides
Change Log Search Job Change History by change type, date or performing user (page 17)
Change Calendar Displays Job Changes on a Weekly Calendar (page 17)
Calendars AutoSys Calendars (page 18)
Available From:
Summarize Pull-down in the Sidebar
Machine and Owner Summary buttons on the topbar
Job Status Summary This flexible screen displays a real-time status summary of AutoSys jobs by a selected
dimension (default: machine). Click on the status totals to see the list of jobs in the given
status. Clicking on the main dimension takes you to the dashboard for that dimension.
Dashboards are available for machine, job owner, production team, job administrator, job
flow, job category and other job dimensions chosen by your Alchemy administrator.
Quick Start Guide Alchemy Enterprise Portal for CA AutoSys P4
Machine Summary
You can specify a refresh rate in seconds to view
job status updates continuously.
Job Admin Summary
Clicking on the name displays the job
administrator’s dashboard. All summary
dimensions have their own dashboards.
Drill-Down
Click on any of the status totals to drill-down to a list of
jobs that make up the selected category.
Available From:
Job Status Summary screen
Sidebar and topbar menus as defined by administrator
Dashboards Alchemy Dashboards deliver real-time performance metrics in interactive charts and
summary reports with drill-down to supporting data. The panels available for each role based
dashboard (machine, admin, team, department etc.) can be customized by Alchemy adminis-
trator to fit the requirements of target users. Administrators may also define new dashboards
and make them available to users in various application menus.
Quick Start Guide Alchemy Enterprise Portal for CA AutoSys P5
Interactive Charts
Click on a pie chart slice or bar chart column and you will
see the detail records (jobs, runs, events ec.) that make up
the given category.
Dashboard Menu
The menu options available on top of
each dashboard provide a launch pad to
other screens for the dashboard jobs
Available From:
Status option in the sidebar
Status button on the topbar
AutoSys Status This dashboard provides a birds-eye view of an AutoSys instance. The panels and options here
apply to all the jobs defined in the target instance.
Quick Start Guide Alchemy Enterprise Portal for CA AutoSys P6
Excel and PDF Export
Quickly convert your charts to Excel charts, export reports
to Excel or PDF. Click on the Excel and PDF icons on upper
right corner of each report or chart panel.
Searching for Jobs Job Search screen allows you look up jobs by any combination of job attributes. Select the
fields you would like to search on by clicking on their checkboxes then type-in or select the
search value for each field. You can also provide up to two fields to sort the result list in
ascending or descending order. The results are displayed in a report by default. This screen is
also utilized by other job screens to filter their result sets.
Quick Start Guide Alchemy Enterprise Portal for CA AutoSys P7
Available From:
Job Search option in the sidebar
Search button on the topbar
Other screens that allow dynamic filtering
Specify the Search Criteria
Select the checkbox for field(s) you want to search on
Type in or select the search criteria.
Use % sign as wild-card
Sort the Results
Specify up to two fields to sort by and the
sort direction (ascending, descending)
Schedule Forecast Schedule Forecast screen displays all the jobs scheduled to run in the given time window
(default: next 3 days) based on their date conditions. All their dependencies are also shown
either in a multi-level report or as a dependency graph.
Quick Start Guide Alchemy Enterprise Portal for CA AutoSys P8
Job Schedule Forecast Report
All scheduled jobs and their multi-level dependents are displayed on a tabular format.
Dep Level column shows the depth of the job from the top level scheduled job.
Check the Graph box in the parameters panel to view the job dependencies as a graph.
Quick Start Guide Alchemy Enterprise Portal for CA AutoSys P9
Schedule Forecast Dependency Graph
Multi-level job dependencies are plotted on a hierarchical graph where nodes are the jobs and the edges
are dependecies. The edges are color-coded by the type of dependency (green: success, red: failure etc.)
Jobs with dependencies are represented by rectangular boxes whereas the leaf nodes are elliptical.
The boxes are further color-coded by job owner or other attribute selected from Color Graph By pull-
down.
Click on the job node to view details of the job on the side panel
Different Layouts of Dependency Graph
Use these icons to redraw the graph in:
Radial Chart Layout•
Spring Tension Layout•
Concentric Circle Layout•
Available From:
Schedule Forecast option in the sidebar
Dashboard menus, Job report menu
Run Calendar Run Calendar makes it easy to see all job runs on a given week or month. The job activations
are sorted by their start time and color-coded by their status. Run Calendar allows navigation
to previous/next week or month and drill-down to run details.
Quick Start Guide Alchemy Enterprise Portal for CA AutoSys P10
Available From:
Run Calendar - Weekly & Monthly - options in the sidebar
Weekly Run Calendar button on the topbar
Dashboard menus, Job report menu
Weekly Run Calendar
Displays job name and the run start time in parenthesis.
Click on job name to view run history report for the
selected job
Monthly Run Calendar
Displays executed job name.
Place your cursor over the job name to view job
description, run start time and re-try count in a tooltip.
Job Status by the Colors
Visually identify job status by the job
name color.
Red is a failed run. Grey is success, Green is
scheduled to run.
See legend below the calendar for more
info.
Timeline Timeline provides job run durations on a Gannt chart. Timeline views let you change the level
of detail visible by changing the number of minutes allocated to each of 12 time periods on
the chart. Reduce the minutes to “Zoom In” and view more jobs that finish quickly. Increasing
minutes per bucket allows you see a bigger time span. Some numbers you may want to try:
20 - 4 hour view, 40 - 8 hours, 60 - 12 hours, 120 - 24 hours. You can navigate using the arrows
on both sides of From Date. Type the new date in From Date field to switch to another day.
Quick Start Guide Alchemy Enterprise Portal for CA AutoSys P11
Available From:
Timeline option in the sidebar
Timeline button on the topbar
Event Monitor Event Monitor makes it simple to view the stream of events generated by AutoSys
in real-time. Event Monitor displays all events for the past 5 minutes.
You can adjust the time window and refresh rate.
Quick Start Guide Alchemy Enterprise Portal for CA AutoSys P12
Available From:
Event Monitor option in the sidebar
Event Monitor button on the topbar
Event Window and Refresh Rate
You can control how frequently the screen is refreshed and how far back the events are displayed.
The parameter bar below the title lets you enter a refresh period in seconds (minimum 3 seconds) and the
time window is in minutes (default is 5).
Job Run Details
Click on the run number to see detail information about
the job run including start/end times, output and error
files and other events generated by the run.
Job Report Job Report list all the jobs matching the selection criteria in a tabular report format. Alchemy
reports are fully integrated with desktop productivity tools and can be exported to Excel for
analysis or to PDF for safekeeping and printing. The menu options on top of the screen pro-
vide shortcuts to other screens for the set of jobs displayed.
Quick Start Guide Alchemy Enterprise Portal for CA AutoSys P13
Available From:
Job Search option and job name box the sidebar
Search button on the topbar
Any summary report, chart or other widget with
drill-down
Build Your Own Report
Click on the Customize link to pick new report fields and rerun the report. You can save your
custom report as a live bookmark. Then share it with your coworkers or build a report repository
on your intranet site.
Job Info Job Info screen displays all relevant attributes for the selected job. The menu options below
the form lets you view job audit information (runs, events, change log, overrides), manage the
job (edit, delete, copy, send event) or view its dependencies.
Quick Start Guide Alchemy Enterprise Portal for CA AutoSys P14
Available From:
Job report or any other report, chart, or panel that
displays job name. Click on the job name link to view the
job details.
Different Layouts for Different Job Types
Job Info screen changes its layout based on job type to show you the most relevent information
about the job. For instance a command job will have the command attribute displayed whereas
a file watcher job shows the watch file. Box jobs display their sub jobs in a separate report under
the main panel.
Job Maintenance Alchemy makes it easy to create, edit, copy, or delete jobs via its secure interface which con-
trols job access at the field level and captures all job updates in its change log with user id,
timestamp and old/new values ensuring full SOX compliance.
Quick Start Guide Alchemy Enterprise Portal for CA AutoSys P15
Create a New Job
Select the job type from the New Job pull-down on the sidebar.
Alchemy prompts for the attributes required to create the type of job
selected.
Job is created via JIL and transaction is recorded in job history log
Copy a Job
Sometimes it is easier to just copy a job
to a new one and then change any
attributes that differ.
This is also a safer method to move a job
from development to test to production.
Sending Events
Alchemy lets you send events to jobs similar to AutoSys sendevent command.
After picking the event to send, type in a comment and optionally a time to
send the event. Alchemy automatically captures the perfoming user in the
event log.
Quick Start Guide Alchemy Enterprise Portal for CA AutoSys P16
Available From:
New Job option is available on the sidebar and topbar
All other maintenance options are on the Job Info screen
menu
Edit Job
Using Alchemy you can also edit AutoSys jobs. The list of editable job attributes is based on
the type of job, the configuration of your Alchemy instance and most importantly the roles
assigned to you. Since Alchemy provides field level security, the attributes available for up-
date or even whether editing a particular job is an option depends on the privileges granted
to your account.
Job Audit Trail Alchemy captures all user actions that impact a job in the history log. Activities to creating
jobs to editing them, from manually running a job to defining an override are added to job’s
permanent life-cyle record by user id, timestamp and old / new values where applicable.
You can also attach artifacts such as files, notes, web links or problem tickets directly to the
job ensuring a single-point of visibility for the job stream.
Quick Start Guide Alchemy Enterprise Portal for CA AutoSys P17
Available From:
Change Log and Change Calendar options are on the
sidebar.
Change Calendar button on the topbar
Searching the Job History Log
Alchemy lets you search the job changes by
the type of change (New, Edit, Delete etc.),
transaction date range, performing user id or
job name pattern.
Job Change Calendar
You can keep an eye on job updates using
Weekly Job Change Calendar which displays
all updates for the current week.
Use the arrows on the top to view the changes
for previous weeks.
Calendars Manage your AutoSys calendars with a couple of clicks. Alchemy lets you define calendars by
just selecting the dates from an annual calendar or copy an existing calendar into a new one
and mark the new dates. From viewing the jobs that utilize a calendar to listing calendar days
in a text box so that you can quickly cut and paste it; Alchemy makes it easy to control your
AutoSys calendars.
Quick Start Guide Alchemy Enterprise Portal for CA AutoSys P18
View AutoSys Calendars
Click on the Calendars option on the sidebar and you will see all the AutoSys calendars defined for the
current month. Select a calendar to see the calendar details and manage the calendar.
Calendar Management
Calendar Info screen shows an annual
calendar with the days in the AutoSys calendar
checked.
The menu on top of the screen lets you view
the list of jobs using the calendar, navigate to
previous or next year.
Using the calendar menu, you can also edit
the calendar, copy one calendar to another or
delete it.
The calendar days are also shown on a text box
at the bottom of the screen for cut and paste.
Quick Start Guide Alchemy Enterprise Portal for CA AutoSys P19
Available From:
Calendars option on the sidebar
Calendars button on the topbar
Editing AutoSys Calendars
Alchemy allows you to check off the dates on an annual calendar to define or maintain AutoSys calendars.
The dates currently defined in the calendar are highligted in red. You can also copy an existing calendar to
a new one and just mark the changes.
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