Ca7: Fill & Download for Free

The whole solution has got multiple flaws. But let me just answer your specific questions before suggesting alternative.1) I am not sure of exactly solution but you when you upload or download the file using some emulator, in the background it does execute some scripts so you can pull out that information. There are some TSO commands as well. However, why don't you write the information on the mainframe flat file itself.2) There is no way, you can load that file into CA7 as is. There are specific commands to do the scheduling in CA7 so you would write some kind of utility to convert you job dependencies into CA7 commands. Generally I have not seen an average developer having that kind of access to run these commands.3) If you doing this kind of thing for test then just write some kind of rexx utility to copy of jobs from PDS in a specific order (that order can be written in a flat file) on the internal reader. There is no point of involving CA7 in this. I have seen this kind of tools in my previous organization. We used to use this in lower test environment wherein we didn't have CA7 instance available.If you are trying to do something like this in production environment then this is extremely bad idea. I am surprised what kind of organization will let a developer play with production environment like this. This kind of dynamic scheduling is just NOT going to work.

I believe there are many alreadyBut most common used one is IBM tws(tiwoli work load scheduler) a.k.a OPC

CA7 & OPC(schulders), Endevor & changeman (version control, Xpeditor/internet all these are nothing but some examples of tools that have been created on top of mainframe so there is lot that can be done. However, I guess you are looking for some simple development tools that can helping in software development. Isn't it? Generally, people create many such tools using REXX or some interpreted languages such as SAS, Easytrieve. Some examples of the kind of tools that i have seen:1) Tool to simulate scheduling of jobs on test environment where you don't have scheduler available (using writing on internal reader technique).2) Rexx tools using TSO & ISPF commands/macro to help in analysis .. for e.g. with a command, all the copybooks of cobol module will be expended there itself. This helps in analysis.3) Loads of tools to help in analysis.. e.g. full cross reference of jobs, procs and cobol programs; job flow chart tools; cobol program to put long called-calling chain into some simple format etc.4) Tools for testing automation liking data mining, data creation for performance testing etc5) SAS based tools for reporting. for e.g. I wrote a tool long back to analyze CICS logs to come out with transactions performance statistics.