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E-News
Unicenter® Job Management Newsletter
Version 05.01
March 08, 2005

In This Newsletter
Product News
> An Important Notice About SupportConnectSM
> Unicenter® Universal Job Management Agent r3.1 Now Available

Product Updates
> Beta Programs
> Unicenter® Job Management Distributed Agents and Unicenter® Universal Job Management
Agent Drop Support Information
> Product Certifications

General Information
> Tracking External Jobs with Unicenter® CA-Scheduler® Job Management r9.1
> HYPER APAR Notification

Product News
An Important Notice About SupportConnectSM
CA endeavors to provide the highest quality of secure products for your environment. Our Customer Support department recommends reviewing current maintenance to help ensure that critical maintenance is applied in your environments.

Further details regarding available maintenance, current advisories, and valuable product information can be found on ca.com/supportconnect/. SupportConnect contains product documentation, maintenance details, and an extensive knowledge base to provide you with the information and tools you need to manage your environment effectively and maximize the value of your resources.

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Unicenter® Universal Job Management Agent r3.1 Now Available
We are pleased to announce that the Unicenter Universal Job Management Agent r3.1 is generally available (GA). If you are using an earlier version and are current on maintenance, you can order r3.1 or download the latest release from ca.com/supportconnect. In addition, if you are current on maintenance for Unicenter® CA-Scheduler® Job Management Distributed Agent, Unicenter® CA-Jobtrac® Job Management Distributed Agent, or Unicenter® CA-7® Job Management Distributed Agent, you are entitled to receive this release at no additional cost. Please call 1-800-637-5858 to receive the upgrade. For customers outside North America, contact your local CA office.

Some of the enhancements and new features added to this release of the Unicenter Universal Job Management Agent are included in the following list:
  • Distribution of the full Event Agent (for UNIX and Linux customers)
  • Failover support with High Availability Server
  • Optional CA Event Notification Facility (CAENF) support
  • UNIX/Linux installation of Unicenter Universal Job Management Agent
  • Windows wizard installation of Unicenter Universal Job Management Agent
  • Adobe Acrobat search index
  • Enhanced manageability
  • Extended self-management
  • Flexibility of Security Model
We are dedicated to ensuring that your use of the Unicenter Universal Job Management Agent is successful and we want to thank you for your continued support of CA. For additional information about this or any other CA product, please contact your local sales representative or visit us at ca.com.

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Product Updates
Beta Programs
Seeking Beta Customers for Unicenter® AutoSys® Job Management Adapter for Oracle Warehouse Builder r1

Unicenter AutoSys Job Management Adapter for Oracle Warehouse Builder r1 enables process flows created in Oracle Warehouse Builder to be directly deployed to Unicenter AutoSys Job Management. This solution helps companies deliver on their goal of seamless business process automation across heterogeneous computing environments and provides the following additional benefits:
  • Enables centralized control of job scheduling
  • Offers job dependencies across Oracle and non-Oracle applications
  • Simplifies job management for Oracle environments
  • Enables customers to keep and extend their current Unicenter AutoSys Job Management installations to their Oracle-based data warehouse installations
Additionally, the Unicenter AutoSys Job Management Adapter for Oracle Warehouse Builder becomes increasingly important as Oracle continues to integrate business intelligence into the backbone of its applications. By offering an adapter for Oracle Warehouse Builder and related applications, CA is able to provide more comprehensive support for Oracle customers.

We are happy to announce that the Unicenter AutoSys Job Management Adapter for Oracle Warehouse Builder r1 Beta is now available to qualified customers. If you are interested in participating in this program, please complete the beta questionnaire.

If you are unable to access this questionnaire, please contact your CA Customer Advocate or appropriate CA representative to apply for the beta program.

Seeking Beta Customers for Unicenter® Job Management Adapter for Oracle Applications r3

Unicenter Job Management Adapter for Oracle Applications provides cross-application, cross-platform scheduling for Oracle Application jobs. Featuring Universal Adapter technology, it lets you schedule the start of Oracle Concurrent Programs, monitor job progress, record Oracle Application phases and statuses, or stop jobs using the sophisticated and reliable job scheduling capabilities of any CA distributed or mainframe job management engine. In addition, you can incorporate Oracle Application jobs into any other work flow for efficient management.

We are happy to announce that the Unicenter Job Management Adapter for Oracle Applications r3 Beta is now available to qualified customers. If you are interested in participating in this program, please complete the beta questionnaire.

If you are unable to access this questionnaire, please contact your CA Customer Advocate or appropriate CA representative to apply for the beta program.

Seeking Beta Customers for Unicenter® Network and Systems Management Job Management Option r11

We are pleased to announce that the next release of Unicenter Network and Systems Management Job Management Option is now beta and available to those customers who apply for and are accepted into the beta program. If you are interested in participating in this beta program, please complete the beta questionnaire.

If you are unable to access the online beta questionnaire, contact your CA Customer Advocate or your appropriate CA representative to get a copy of the beta questionnaire and apply for the beta program.

Seeking Beta Customers for Unicenter® AutoSys® Job Management r11

We are pleased to announce that the next release of Unicenter AutoSys Job Management (Unicenter AutoSys JM) is now beta and available to those customers who apply for and are accepted into the beta program. This release is a significant move forward for CA in that it integrates shared technologies so that multiple CA products can take advantage of the rich, specialized knowledge information within CA management architecture. In addition, this release of Unicenter AutoSys JM provides major emphasis to enhancing product usability, scalability, and management abilities. If you are interested in participating in this beta program, please complete the beta questionnaire.

If you are unable to access the online beta questionnaire, contact your CA Customer Advocate or your appropriate CA representative to get a copy of the beta questionnaire and apply for the beta program.

Seeking Beta Customers for Unicenter® CA-7® Job Management r11

We are pleased to announce that the next release of Unicenter CA-7 Job Management is now beta and available to those customers who apply for and are accepted into the beta program. This release of Unicenter CA-7 Job Management provides significant enhancements with a new Job Management Command Center user interface as well as providing "self-awareness" capabilities by integrating with Unicenter® ServicePlus Service Desk and email notifications. In addition, this release of Unicenter CA-7 Job Management emphasizes enhancements to product usability, scalability, and management abilities. If you are interested in participating in this beta program, please complete the beta questionnaire.

If you are unable to access the online beta questionnaire, contact your CA Customer Advocate or your appropriate CA representative to get a copy of the beta questionnaire and apply for the beta program.

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Unicenter® Job Management Distributed Agents and Unicenter® Universal Job Management Agent Drop Support Information
We are continually working to improve our software and services to best meet the needs of our customers. To effectively support the latest computing environments and those of the future, we continually evaluate our products to determine their strategic direction. To focus our development and support efforts on our most strategic business tools, we have decided to drop support for Unicenter® CA-7® Job Management Distributed Agent, Unicenter®
CA-Jobtrac® Job Management Distributed Agent, Unicenter® CA-Scheduler® Job Management Distributed Agent, and Unicenter® Universal Job Management Agent for OpenVMS and Linux z/Series.

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Product Certifications
Unicenter® Network and Systems Management Job Management Option r3.1 0403 agent is now certified on the following operating environments:
  • SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 9.0 Intel (kernel 2.6.5-7.97)
  • AIX 5.3 32-bit and 64-bit (with CAENF support)
Please contact Customer Support to obtain the required fixes.

Unicenter® Network and Systems Management Job Management Option r3.0 0305 agent is now certified on Linux Itanium IA-64 Red Hat 3.0 Enterprise AS (kernel 2.4.21-4.EL). Please contact Customer Support to obtain the required fixes.

Unicenter® AutoSys® Job Management Adapter for Peoplesoft r2.1.0 is now certified on AIX 5.2 for Peoplesoft version 8.4. No fixes are required.

Unicenter® Universal Job Management Agent r3.1 is now certified on AIX 5.3 with CAENF. Please contact Customer Support to obtain the required fixes.

Unicenter® AutoSys® Job Management r4 Remote Agent (jobs only) is now certified on AIX 5.3 (32 and 64 bit) for Oracle and Sybase. No fixes are required.

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General Information
Tracking External Jobs with Unicenter® CA-Scheduler® Job Management r9.1
Every site has z/OS batch jobs that must be tracked like a production job but are submitted by something other than the job management product. For example, a payroll job stream in Unicenter CA-Scheduler may need to wait on a job that is submitted by a CICS transaction when the HR department has finished entering overtime hours.

Unicenter CA-Scheduler has always had the ability to track jobs submitted outside of Unicenter CA-Scheduler by using the $MVS table.

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HYPER APAR Notification
Are you keeping track of the latest HYPER APARs?

To learn how you can become more proactive with HYPER maintenance for CA products and to download HYPER APARs, visit SupportConnectSM. From there, you can search our Knowledge Base by product using the keyword "HYPER" to locate all the critical solutions.

If you are not registered to receive email notifications of new HYPER APARs, you can register by logging into SupportConnect and selecting HYPER Subscriptions under Support Solutions.

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