Ok as one of the most senior statesmen of AutoSys, I guess i have to take the fishing bait and yank the pole out of a fisherman's hand.
disclaimer: This is Steve C. speaking as someone with one of the most flight time, yes there are others out there, with the product suite and am not making statements on behalf of former companies nor my current company. I am only stating fact:
AutoSys and Automic (Dollar Universe) are 2 totally different products, agreed.
AutoSys was developed and landed on wallstreet in the mid 1990s (96 I believe) It has stood the test of time and other schedulers. (TWS/Control-M/sysadmiral/Oracles Orsyp or whatever it was, OnTime,OnSchedule,Dollar Universe and UC4, CA workload as well) All HAD converters, and AutoSys had people like me knowing them to convert to autosys, and every company that tried to give it a go stayed with AutoSys.
Why? perhaps it's WYSIWYG approach to batch. its dynamic scheduling capabilities, it's flexibility. Take your pick.
Like all products it has it's cons but the pros for many of us are top tier when compared to the other products. Automic on the other hand if you ask me is a CA RA type product with a scheduler (like so many products out there with built in schedulers -In my opinion)
When CA finally took the product off Platinum's hands (who bought it from AutoSystems) they rebranded several times.
it's latest foray was Cybermation and the agents. These plugin agents do a lot but they came from another product that was (unlike autosys) and client centric and not agnostic. AutoSys is powerful because the job instruction language tells the client what to do and it isn't stored on the client, but within the central DB.
Where the product goes now that Broadcom is in the mix is anyone's guess.
But please let's not mince words Automic is an automater not necessarily a scheduler, IMHO.
From my personal experience: Dollar Universe conversions never went so well, before CA/Broadcom). Now, I have NO Idea, nor do i want to hazard a guess, how they will fair today.
Rajarajan, I suggest you research and make up your own mind or if your firm has already chosen AutoSys/Automic, then you make it work.
Don't just take my word nor the word of a vendor that owns several schedulers. In the end how any client, of CA/Broadcom, does business; they need to choose the suite of tools that will do the job, period.
Does CA have products that will do that? Absolutely and rather well I may add..
Whom should you listen?
As an old commercial for clothing once said: an educated consumer is the best customer...
Learn the need of your firm and which is best suitable.
ok off the soap box..back to your regular programming
as always this was just my 3 cents on the matter
Steve C.