AutoSys Workload Automation Room for Improvement

Antony Askew - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Lead at Natwest

The visibility and control features are somewhat limited. This is a recognized weakness, but thee vendor is currently revamping the user interface to address it. While the current UI is a bit outdated, it's undergoing improvement.

AutoSys Workload Automation has some areas for improvement, particularly in housekeeping and product maintenance. These tasks are currently quite manual and labor-intensive for our team. Additionally, the reporting and forecasting functionalities could be more robust.

One area for improvement with AutoSys Workload Automation is that it comprises several distinct tools configured to work together. This necessitates familiarity with multiple tools for effective solution management. Consequently, it can sometimes lack a sense of cohesiveness as a unified solution.

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GD
Technical Analyst at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

An area for improvement in AutoSys Workload Automation is that it lacks advanced features or advanced built-in functionalities found in competitors, for example, an advanced workflow feature. Even the handling or notification from AutoSys Workload Automation isn't the best in the industry. Other products have very good workflow-related functionalities such as ActiveBatch that's missing in AutoSys Workload Automation, so I wish the tool had those features.

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Muralidhar Burla - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager at Capgemini

The reporting system, currently, could be better. In the reporting system, currently, if you want to see or generate the job dependency, you can have a flowchart right now that shows job flows. We can see from the job flow in that graphic representation, however, I would like to see them work more on that, maybe, to make it better and more robust. We'd like more details about the job success versus failure. Right now, we just get statistics. We'd like something that generates job names along with the accounting. There also needs to be more customized reporting. It would help a lot. 

The solution could use more monitoring. 

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Fernando Romero - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant Manager at Accenture

There should be easier migrations from a different bus scheduler. Prior to this workload, we were using BMC control M and the migration was really hard. We had to manually create the jobs and there was no sort of automation for the migration. Workload Automation could improve the handling of file transfer jobs. Compared to control M, control M allows multiple file transfers. It can have five types of files that can be transferred. They have different file formats or different sizes. You can configure it in control M. Here, you only have one and three for file transfer. A lot of times you also encounter issues with SSL crypto in conflict on certain jobs. Basically, the newer servers have newer security measures and currently, the product is not compatible with them.

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Atul Pednekar - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager at Colgate

Support definitely needs improvement. It's possible they're in some kind of transition so I'd like to give them the benefit of the doubt but it's an issue. The pricing is definitely something they should look at, it's quite expensive. Finally, the latest features like the quick searching or better reporting and analysis of the jobs which are running in, needs to be improved. It's a great product but with the latest feature set there is a large scope for improvement.

From a manageability point of view, the easy upgrade should be included and the frequent feature update too. Reporting and notifications need to be improved too, these are important things.

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AG
Head - Consumer Insurance at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

I am not sure whether it is our limitation or a tool limitation because we haven't yet explored it, but whenever we look for different types of reporting, we have some limitations in getting those. It could be because of the way we have set it up internally in our enterprise, but it would be helpful if we can customize the reporting features and some of the alerts that can go out. When we connect enterprise systems, each one looks for a different use case, and if we can get different types of reporting, it will be helpful.

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it_user572862 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Analyst Developer at Dish Network

When we first went to 11.3.6, they didn't have their agent monitoring platform produced. As of this date, we haven't even installed their agent orchestrator yet. We're trying to work to get those in. I can't specify what I would like right now, unfortunately, because we haven't fully implemented the product, so I don't know what's missing.

They have a lot of great features; these new job types that we've yet to even start implementing. Some of that's going to require some philosophical change on how we promote the code, so I don’t have hard information on it. I would just say to CA, stay on the roadmap.

My opinion, from what I've seen, is, when we started with 11.3.6 service pack 0, the initial release (now they're up to service pack 5), I've seen them address all my concerns regarding, how do we manage the agents from a centralized location and all? I think they're on the right track, but at this point, I can't say, "Wow, they're missing this key feature.", because they seem to have everything that I've been thinking about in the pipeline.

When we started the new product and we introduced it, we started getting some new alarm types and the agent went offline. The architecture about how the scheduler monitors the agents, it knows when the agent on the workload server actually disappears and it reports that. I was talking to our service engineers and so forth, and I said, "You have an alarm that goes off, that says the scheduler's lost contact with server x's agent and it's logged in a log. When it recovers, that's logged in the log, but there's nothing from an alert perspective." Basically, you have a system that alerts you when there's a problem, but doesn't alert you when it's resolved.

I said, "We don't look at AutoSys, or in this case, Workload Automation, to be the correlation engine for what we escalate, but if you're going to put out an alarm that says the sky is falling, I've lost contact with an agent, and you log that in your log." I kind of said, "It would be nice if you put out the same type of information alert, that shows that it cleared, since the log of the application shows that. You're basically saying, the sky is falling and then when the sky is caught, you don't alert us that it's all better.”

It caused a little confusion since our NOC is reaction based. We see the alert and then when it clears, they don't see that it cleared, so we have to do additional work. I've talked to CA about it. They said, "It's an interesting idea. We'll take it under advisement.", because it's not a bug, it's more like undocumented features.

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MB
Application Support Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 5,001-10,000 employees

There is a recently made change in AutoSys Workload Automation's subscription model. The solution does not have a friendly subscription model because it forces users to take a five-year subscription simultaneously, charging millions of dollars. Hence, our managers are looking for alternatives to AutoSys Workload Automation.

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it_user779097 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT System Analyst Senior at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

It's hard to tell what needs to be improved. That's kind of why I'm here at the CA World conference, to see what options are out there that may help our developers fulfill their needs in the future. I'm trying to get a feel for what other tool sets may be available to help them do their jobs better.

I can see the analysis piece and the web client being critical parts, going into the future. Especially with the aging population, the baby boomers going out. We're very top heavy at this point within the company. As those people age out and retire, they're taking a lot of business knowledge with them. 

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SK
Senior Associate - HR at State Street Corporation

AutoSys Workload Automation could improve the integration.

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HS
Executive Director at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We are trying to see if we can use this from a cloud perspective with AWS, Azure, and other clouds, but it seems that there is no cloud integration in this product. We would like to see cloud integration. We are very pleased with this solution, but we are moving our application to the cloud, and we found out that it doesn't support any cloud features. So, we are trying to find a replacement.

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DV
Sr IT Infrastructure Analyst at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

The GUI/Workstation is weak and needs to be improved. CA is working on this right now; the web based GUI is in beta mode at this time.

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it_user351537 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

The reliability issues need to be resolved. We have some patches that need to be applied and that's our next step to trying to get this thing resolved. In particular, one of the issues is licensing, so that could become a real problem for you if you're in a very large environment. It could get very costly if you want to scale this product out. It will scale, technically, but licensing may prevent that from happening.

I'd also like better reporting and a better UI.

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it_user611985 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Associate at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We need the ability to be able to have Windows user passwords changed periodically and automatically.

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AM
Batch Scheduling Specialist at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees
  • Maybe just new ways to schedule things
  • Maybe a little bit more options for scheduling
  • More keywords

Things like that. That would help.

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DC
Autosys Admin at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

I do not have any features that I need to see, but there is a lot of stuff coming out and the tools that attach to AutoSys. That will be very helpful in making it easier for our customers to view and see how their jobs are performing. 

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it_user572841 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We would like to see good improvement on the historical reporting capabilities. It's always been, I think, a bit of a weak point. Currently, if you know a SQL programmer, he should become your best friend, but I'd like to see it get to the point where somebody with really basic skills – where they understand the information they want – can easily extract it. That's really the big area with room for improvement.

The development team has been really good about keeping up with not only our requests but the user community as a whole. We're pretty happy about it, but that's the one exception.

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it_user558105 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The most important thing is that duration is not displayed in the actual WCC GUI. I know they have some different add-on tools where you can get that information; but it would be nice to be able to see how long jobs ran, and the history for more than ten days. As is, the scheduler already starts to have performance issues when you keep the ten day history. So there are efficiency issues related to being able to keep more logs.

There are always issues with software. They have some improvements they can make. The way they're heading, I think they're on the right track.

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DJ
Technology Director at The Travelers Companies, Inc.

Performance improvements in the UI would be appreciated. It lacks support and integration with cloud computing platforms.

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GH
Senior Technology Specialist at TELUS Corporation

I honestly don't know I can't think of anything to improve.

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it_user588753 - PeerSpot reviewer
Subject Matter Expert (Application Administration and Automation) at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

There has been preaching about cross-application critical pathing. It's extremely difficult for us to tell what is impacting what other items. I would absolutely love to be able to click one job and see all of its dependencies, regardless of which application that it's in, through externals. I've had a hard time getting traction on that. It was supposed to be in the most recent release, but got pulled in favor, I believe, of the web GUI. I would absolutely love to see cross-application critical pathing.

There are a couple things that they could do to make my life a little easier. Analytics seems to be a problem, so a couple of stars deducted for that, but it's probably one of the easiest tools that I manage.

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it_user558255 - PeerSpot reviewer
Mainframe System Administrator II at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

There is always something that can be improved, but I do like this product. It is a good product. The DevOps are there to move the tool into the future. The new path is mainframe modernization. That's where we'll be headed with this product.

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AM
Batch Scheduling Specialist at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We Received a 'Not active. "Scan Failed"; "The 'path/file' does not exist or not a directory" error message/email on one of our event level file triggers. Both clusters were down due to maintenance resulting in this error message. In order to make this active, we had to manually suspend and resume the event. We are requesting an automated process where no manual intervention is needed to make those event level FT's active again and/or preventing that error.
I’d like to have the ability to restart a failed file scan on the mainframe.


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it_user779085 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Developer at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

A lot of what we want is going to be based on our particular solution, not for something everybody else could use at the same time. Different companies use AutoSys differently. They have different standards and different methodologies. A solution that we want in place would not apply to other companies.

From what we heard, the features we want are being included with the next couple of releases. One is to be able to work and create automatic ticketing solutions that are not necessarily CA products. It is just the automation around getting jobs to work correctly. If something fails, what do we do then.

I would like to be able to see the product grow into something that is going to be more reliable and better. The new purchase of Automic should help.

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it_user778662 - PeerSpot reviewer
CA Seven Workload Automation Admin at Home Depot

I would like to see iDASH be a packaged part of Workload Automation as opposed of being two separate packages. I would like to see iDASH be incorporated with the release of CA Workload Automation. For it to be all a complete package instead of two separate packages that I would install to enhance one another. So, we use iDASH for the recording purposes of the batch jobs that CA7 actually runs. I would like to see iDASH and CA7 become one product instead of two separate products, too. 

The agent is also a different installation as well as the scheduling packages. To see all of that incorporated under one umbrella would be ideal. 

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SP
Consultant at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
  • A better graphical user interface. We have a lot of people using the client utility, and we want to get them away from that. It needs to be easier to use, quicker, and more user-friendly.
  • Ease of implementation for upgrades. 
  • Some support issues need to be addressed. Not through email, but through personal contact via phone or WebEx.
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it_user778599 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Easier user options with the web browser part of it because it's not very friendly and you can't do as much as you can on the native software. They already know that.

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it_user558414 - PeerSpot reviewer
Scheduling Support at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The main push is the web UI. We want to be able to give it to our business users. They don't want to have to log on to a mainframe to use the product. I would like to use iDash. If we can get iDash into ESP, it would be great, even though it first has to go to the DEs before it comes to us. That would be a big improvement. This is an option that we'd like to see.

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it_user389130 - PeerSpot reviewer
Autosys Administrator at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I've wondered about certain features. Our release of iDash right now is 11.4. I have seen release 12 in the labs and presentation and I'm just blown away by the features that I see. Many of the things I was thinking about, asking about, they were already answered in the new release. CA has a roadmap and they have even more features coming in down the road which I like very much, so we're very, very happy with that, and that goes of course, for other products as well.

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AR
IT consultant at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

AutoSys Workload Automation could improve in the Linux environment. The previous versions of the AutoSys Workload Automation let you take the profile of the user that you were using to run the tasks that you're going to automate, but in the latest versions, you can't do that, you need to make more definitions and it's a little bit difficult. It was easier in the previous versions.

In an upcoming release, AutoSys Workload Automation could include more integrations capabilities. I have seen other tools that have native integrations with other tools, such as Docker and other services in the cloud. They are not taking this into account in AutoSys Workload Automation.

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it_user811287 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Senior System Engineer at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

Better documentation with fully explained examples for some of the job types.

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it_user778779 - PeerSpot reviewer
Supervisor For Support Operations at Hollister Incorporated

More benefits with the agent upgrades, and that's about it. Other than that we have no complaints with it. It's been awesome.

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it_user572868 - PeerSpot reviewer
Development Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

A couple of key features would be really being able to support a scheduler that, instead of a centralized scheduler, maybe a distributed one, so where a scheduler doesn't come down; not everything stops all at one time and so on.

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it_user558330 - PeerSpot reviewer
ESP Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

On the mainframe version of ESP, there was a scheduling parameter called NOTWITH. If you placed this parameter on two jobs you didn’t want running at the same time, ESP would recognize that one was running and the other wouldn’t run, even if its scheduling requirements had been met. This allowed our company to combat contention issues without creating extra or false predecessor/successor relationships. The D-series, ESP-DE, doesn’t have this parameter. Once we realized how much we were leveraging this feature on the mainframe version, and that we wouldn’t have it on ESP-DE, we were a little disappointed. I’m not sure how much of an undertaking it would be to have it added to ESP-DE, but it would be very beneficial to us, as well as other DE clients that I spoke with at Ca World. Hopefully this could be added to the next release of DE and we could get it in before we go totally live in production with DE early this summer.

The secure SimLib/password feature from Autosys I was referencing gave us the ability to hide/secure environment variables by storing them on a totally different server in which security could be controlled. Once the job ran that used the environment variable, or database password, a developer or operator couldn’t see the environment variable/database password resolved in the spool file. Basically what we’re looking for is the ability to store database passwords or environment variables, on or in ESP, without them being seen by a developer or operator. We don’t want anyone to see the resolved environment variables in the spool file or to have to store them on the server. Currently we’re having to store these environment variables on the server, which isn’t a permanent solution according to our Security Admins.


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it_user355647 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a logistics company with 10,001+ employees

It's hard to share any information out of it for data analytics or anything like that because its siloed.

Also, we tried the INS data collection feature as well as the DB2 feature (except for data presentation). We're not very happy with those.

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it_user778578 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Programmer at American International Group

We are not ready to go to the newest release (12.0).

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it_user558198 - PeerSpot reviewer
Analyst at a energy/utilities company

I would like to see a better front end for job creation that does everything for you, so it also automates the process.

In addition, I would also like to see a job form, i.e., a fill-out form for the job requests. I also want to see it set up files, folders, security, policies, etc., and automate JIL creation.

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it_user373482 - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

One of my clients who has recently converted everything from the Architecture to what they are using to the complete iPad and solutions. Deploying those solutions and integrating with them was a little challenge at this point of time. We would definitely like to see some kind of roadmap with this workload automation product, having integrations with mobility as well.

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it_user779295 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

In the next release I would like to see the Service Orchestrator, a B2B product, and maybe a process audit.

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it_user558510 - PeerSpot reviewer
Db2 Says Programer at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The main push is the web UI, to be able to give it to our business users. They don't want to have to log in to a mainframe to use the product.

If we can get iDASH into ESP that would help. I know this request is the fourth... We're "in the hole," we're not even on deck. So it's going to come out to DEs, then it will come to us. That would be a big improvement, an option that we'd like to see.

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it_user345702 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

I can't think of anything at the moment.

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it_user660645 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Operations Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

CA Workload Automation AE (AutoSys Edition) should have a few features like the CA7 FQJOB command (to get all the downstream/upstream jobs with the batch current position).

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it_user353991 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Director / Global Technology Services at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Upgrades to the GUI interface would be probably one of the biggest things they could do to improve. With the up and coming youth of today, they want to be on a GUI instead of on a mainframe, so a better GUI interface would probably be the best upgrades they've had. Plus the CLI could be improved.

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it_user389076 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

I see room for improvement, as far as monitoring the system and having a quiet data center, when you don't have to have people monitoring and watching jobs run or watching flows going and looking for something to stop or a job to fail. I want to be alerted when we have a problem. I don't want to sit and watch a screen or have a staff of people sitting around the world waiting for something to fail. By having a so-called quiet or lights out system, where we get alerted just on these exceptions. That's the direction I'd like to see the product take. You spend a lot of quality time and money on people watching simple things happen. Lights go green, lights go red or lights go yellow. If we only saw something when they went red, those are the kind of alarms and notations I'd like to have to give to a staff of people that can handle those issues and get it restarted.

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it_user352992 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Analyst at a energy/utilities company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The job flow could use a little more improvement. When we had 4.5, one of the things we were able to where a job was and where the flow was as your batch was running. With 11.3, it's a little more difficult. The jobs are not necessarily in the order that they're running and it's difficult to follow that way.

Also, they could improve the GUI. I would like to see just a better job flow where they could instead of showing jobs in the queue order, showing them in the order that they actually run in so you can follow it top to bottom. This seems to me to be more logical.

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it_user558444 - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President, Enterprise Applications at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

Like almost everyone else, we like to make it more web-available. Right now, it's a thick client so you need to have a desktop client do all the work and the monitoring. People like to just go to a browser, look for the jobs and monitor them. That is something we’d like to see. I think we're very happy with this system.

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MS
Architect at Sight Spectrum

It would be helpful to be able to monitor and manage workload windows so we could minimize downstream applications. This would allow us easier access to the applications.

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it_user814455 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Programmer at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees

The cross-platform arena, where you can run work on multiple platforms, needs improvement.

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TJ
Senior Operations Analyst at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

Documentation and cross-application externals.

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it_user779091 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Director Mainframe Services at Blue Hill Data Services

I am more interested in converting more schedulers over to this particular solution, so the ease of the conversion tools.

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CA
AutoSys Administrator/Engineer PS Consultant at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

To make it a lot more user-friendly, in order to make it so other people can use it without having to do much training with it; the more user-friendly it is, the easier it is to work with.

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it_user494160 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

I would like to see advancement in predictive analysis, trending and reporting.

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it_user354057 - PeerSpot reviewer
Mainframe Storage Manager at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I've used this product for a long time, but the GUI to me feels outdated. I know how to use it well, but it feels old.

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it_user779103 - PeerSpot reviewer
Program Analyst at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

There is a difference between a web interface and the thick client interface. We particularly like a thick client interface, and it has gone away. I am finding that is disappointing to me. Now, it looks like the web interface is where all the development is going, which means it will become more full-featured than any thick clients that might be compatible with the new version. I would hate to see the thick client be left behind. I would really like to see that thick client come along.

I would really like to see a feature where if you have a variable object and you reference it anywhere, in any object or script, that you could somehow click on it and resolve the value and display it.

This is one thing I would really like to see in a new release of it. I have no idea if that has already been implemented or not, because we do not have the latest version, but I would really like to see something like that.

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it_user779073 - PeerSpot reviewer
Programming Specialist at SAIF Corporation

I am looking forward to more of their dashboard features. I think it would be very valuable for us to have dashboard features that could be delivered to our customers in the form of a URL, and they could refresh that URL whenever they wanted to get up to date performance metrics out of our systems. 

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it_user779163 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology Special Automation at CME Group Inc.

I would like to see two-factor authentication, since you see a lot of companies in the news for security breaches. That is a really big thing for us.

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it_user778953 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Ops Analyst at Total System Services, Inc.

We're looking at distributed AutoSys to integrate with CA 7. And iDASH is another product that we're looking, at and we need the two to be able to talk to each other and be able to view the dependencies across the platforms.

If they can integrate the distributive side with the mainframe side, and a better view to both sides of that, that would be good.

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SK
Staff Systems Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Reduce the number of operational files. This would make the job of a system programmer supporting ESP easier. In the present design, there are too many operational files to maintain.

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it_user794079 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Automation Engineer with 5,001-10,000 employees

Sunset CA-7 and stop leading people on with it. 

ESP, Dseries, and now Automic are CA's strategic vision. Not much engineering being done with CA-7 any longer. As a "batch scheduler", it is and always has been a workhorse. As we all know, batch scheduling is antiquated. Workload Automation is the future and changing the product name to CA Workload Automation, CA-7 Edition does not make it a modern WLA Platform.

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RM
IT Process Automation Engineer with 1,001-5,000 employees

We see improvement possibilities in the processing provision of predefined evaluations or individual objects, or in the Self Service portal, which can be used by any user to monitor objects or start objects.

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it_user351300 - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant Vice President at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

I'd like to see automation pushed even further, giving us greater looks into other systems. I'd like more enhanced process automation and have it manage a few more platforms without relying on another orchestration platform.

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it_user826599 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant with 1-10 employees
  • Managing agents centrally (installing, changing configuration, starting and stopping, and upgrading).
  • The WCC could be improved.
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it_user796224 - PeerSpot reviewer
Workload Automation Scheduler at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Because this product only computes processing days, it is hard when things need to be scheduled according to non-processing days. 

Some of the reports are either a bit hard to understand or don’t give you what you might expect to see.

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it_user778584 - PeerSpot reviewer
Applications Developer

Again, lack of documentation, that is an issue. When we do need to bring it down for maintenance, it is always a scary moment for us because we have never had it crash. When we don't have any documentation, we don't really know what to expect if we do have to bring it down but there haven't really been any issues with it.

I'm probably not the right one to ask about features for upcoming versions mostly because we are using an old version of this product. However, if I had to, I'd probably say that it would be really nice if it had the ability to see, on a more top-level scale, what's going on inside of the system. Right now it is very granular. You do have to get very deep into the system to see what jobs are happening, when they're happening, how they're happening, if anything's failed. If they could have a more high-level view of that, that would be really nice.

I gave it an eight out of 10 because we are using an older version right now. I'm sure the newer version that they have is really great. 

The thing that's preventing us from upgrading to the latest version is personnel resources. We don't have enough staff. I think after this conference (CA World) we're probably going to be setting up new servers to go ahead and update. With that, we have a lot of financial related things on our version, so shifting everything over to the new version is going to take a lot of time. We don't know exactly how it's going to be different.

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it_user289056 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise IT Management Consultant with 51-200 employees

Despite the commitment of the development team to improve the UI since version 11.3, the WCC module still lacks true quality. There are still too many screens and the use cases need to be handled in a more "compact" way. I have not seen the v12 product yet.

Note that this product is now a legacy product with a dwindling user base and support.

Do not consider for a green site implementation

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CS
Lead Consultant at Infosys Technologies Ltd
  • It needs improvement in the high-availability side.
  • It needs improvement in WCC console and EEM console to make it user-friendly.
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it_user779211 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Support at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

With requirements, they have "always" and "skip" on them. That would be nice, for them to have it on triggers also. So, if a customer says, "I want to demand this output, only these certain triggers," the scheduler could shut it off.

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it_user778509 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastracture Team Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The scalability could be improved upon. According to the roadmap, this should be addressed in upcoming features.

The emailing feature that we have, when there is a figure, you fill it in. This should be an emailing feature that is enabled.

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CG
Technology Operations Director at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

SQL server clustering is not supported.

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JV
Problem and Technical Application Management for KNAB at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

If you do not need the latest features like cloud and compare, I would really advise using AutoSys. For future technologies, I cannot answer the question yet.

In terms of what should be in the next release, I want integration and AI and so on. I'd like easy reporting where you can compare information, for example, "that job normally takes three minutes and last time it took six minutes or 10 minutes." Then you can get the information to the engineer of which job is taking more time than normal - understanding strange behavior compared to the baseline.

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it_user350691 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager - Application Operations Shared Services - Scheduling & File Transfer with 501-1,000 employees

It needs more complex scheduling capabilities on the end points. For that to happen, you really need the next version of AutoSys that has the ability to do that. We used it as an opportunity to test out what that next version going to look like, so when we deployed enterprise-wide, we had a little bit of understanding of how it's going to work.

Also, it shouldn't take longer than six months to do a deployment. I heard good things about being portable, meaning CA is able to introduce a lot of agents as packages on top of your existing environment that you're going to add. That's some of the good things that I'm hearing and I'm looking forward to seeing those because our business requirements always expand.

I'd also like to see iDASH integration with monitoring, which I think is up and coming.

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MF
System Architect at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

The installation process is complex, and is pretty archaic. The people who developed this had very little concern with GUI interface and it is all command line. Everything is K-space, and if you misspell a task by uppercase, lower case, etc. you just completely think that the task is different.

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HQ
Architect & Technical Director at a tech consulting company with 11-50 employees

The solution could improve by having support for container environments.

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SM
Technical Consultant at Atgen Software Solutions LLP

This product needs to improve its graphical user interface.

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it_user351336 - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Consultant at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

I'd like to see more agents for integrations with other platforms. Also, I think the interface could be unified in a better way. Additionally, we could benefit for more data analytics.

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it_user1027005 - PeerSpot reviewer
Batch Scheduling DTS, Service Delivery Lead at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

The graphical interface can be improved.

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March 2024
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