ESP Workload Automation

I have received a query from one of our partner related to CA Workload Automation, where they want to do the following

1. Integration of CA Workload Automation AE ( AutoSys) with Mainframe ASG ZEKE

Objective of Integration : Is to track, monitor and control the jobs already defined and scheduled in Mainframe using ASG ZEKE, Single Point of Control for submission of jobs.

Query

• Is it OOB ? Can this be done using Services Effort?

1. Integration of CA Workload Automation AE ( AutoSys) with CA Workload Automation Mainframe Solutions ( CA ESP or CA7 or CA Job Scheduler)

Objective of Integration : Is to track, monitor and control the jobs already defined and scheduled in Mainframe using CA WA Mainframe Solutions, Single Point of Control for submission of jobs.

Query :

• Do we need 2 Solutions in the same environment – CA WA AE/DE and CA WA CA7/ESP
• When you would recommend DE instead of AE
• If we require 2 solutions one for Distributed Environment and other for Mainframe Environment, how this can be integrated ? Any documentation available related to integration
• If we need only single  solution what you would recommend to a partner AE / DE or CA7/ESP

It will always be difficult/expensive/impossible to integrate mainframe and distributed products, including centralised control capabilities, when the products come from different vendors.

The answers to the remaining questions are all: it depends on what the customer needs, budgets and so on.  It is technically possible to run both mainframe and distributed workloads, from either (for example) CA7 or AE, without needing both.  These CA products can use the same System Agent, so if the requirements are to run lots of distributed with a few mainframe jobs, you could deploy AE/DE and also include scheduling to the System Agent for z/OS.

DE v AE - again this depends on the customer requirements.  These products use the same Agent and offer almost all the same job types, but the back end server engines work in different ways.