This document provides information on planned and potential future features for CA Workload Automation AE. It includes roadmaps for current and upcoming releases, descriptions of planned marquee features and their business value, as well as a list of potential features under consideration. Disclaimers are provided stating that the roadmap and future features are for informational purposes only and may change.

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Roadmap: CA Workload Automation AE
As of October 2015
Marquee
Features/
Business
Value
Planned Under Consideration
Delivered Planned Under Consideration
Product/
Releases
Currently GA
CA Workload Automation AE
 Advanced Integration with Hadoop to be
able to manage and monitor Hadoop
and non-Hadoop jobs from a single
console
 Granular level security to control jobs,
machines, global variables etc using
sendevent
 Certifications to manage application on
latest and supported environments
 Support for SAP Business Object,
SQL Server Agent, Informatica
 Support for Native 64-bit
 DB query failure alarm
 Must start/complete without date
conditions
 Agent heartbeat
 I5/OS subsystem support
 Virtual resources box support
 Job Object Tree view
 New Flow for Application editor
 List of future events
 History of submitted of
performed events
 Batch job operations
 Cluster nodes widget
CA Workload Automation AE 11.3.6
SP02 & WCC 11.4 SP1
 Exposed Machine RESTful WS to
display, monitor and export agent
information
 Added Calendar Description attribute
to support additional calendar
information
 New Flows in Monitoring, Quick View
and Forecast to improve user
experience and performance
 New active users widget and machines
widget to improve user experience
 Security enhancements - added CA Site
Minder SSO, NTLM SSO
 WCC also compatible on Safari browser

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CA WA AE – Planned Features
As of October 2015
Feature Description Benefit
Advanced
Integration for
Hadoop
Provide Scheduler integration with Hadoop
jobtypes like HDFS, Oozie, Sqoop, HiVe and PIG
Ability to monitor and manage Hadoop and non-Hadoop jobs
as part of a single workflow
Granular level
security for
sendevent
Expose additional level of granular level security to
control jobs, machines, global variables etc when
using sendevent
Ability to control at a much granular level using sendevent

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CA WA AE - Under Consideration
As of October 2015
Features Description Benefit
Native support for 64 bit platforms Move to 64-bit architecture including OS
and DB
Performance Improvement, more process
memory. Reduces risk from 3rd party vendors
dropping support for 32-bit libraries. Simplifies
installation and reduces
configuration/compatibility problems.
Virtual resources support for box Jobs Ability to define global resource
dependencies to box level
More control on your scheduling environment.
Many enterprises use box jobs as logical
containers for their service levels
Must start/complete times without date conditions Provide the ability to define Must
start/complete times without having to
associate with a date condition
Extend alarm notification without having to
define a date condition. Reduces overhead with
calendar administration
Ability to place activated jobs on NO_EXEC Provide ability to place activated jobs within
a box NO_EXEC
Customers can now put activated jobs on
NO_EXEC without having to fear triggering
downstream jobs
Allow user to change default polling time File and
Database Triggers
Allow user to change default polling time
File and Database Triggers
Customers can now alter the default polling time
with a value based on specific runtime
requirements
Provide database authentication exit Provide alternatives to existing traditional
authentication exit
Customers can code to their custom database
authentication exits

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CA WA AE - Under Consideration
As of October 2015
Features Description Benefit
Global variable support into job type attributes (in a
phased manner)
Provide Global Variable substitution in job
type parameters
Dynamic variable substitution
Enhance email notification for job related alarms Add more job related alarms to email
notification
Customers get notified on more job related
alarms
Enhance FTP job types to use certificates instead of
credentials
Enhance FTP job types to use modern types
of authentication
Customers can use more secure types of
authentication
Generate list of jobs by specific machine using CLI Enhance autorep CLI functionality to filter
by machine
Customers do not have to write custom scripts
to parse autorep output
Run chase against a single machine Enhance chase CLI functionality to filter by
machine
Customers do not have to write custom scripts
to parse chase output
Job heartbeat Provide job heartbeat interval as part of the
job definition
Scheduler gets notified on the progress of long
running jobs at regular intervals
i5/OS subsystem support Adding support for Sub System Currently AE mandate to install 2 agents (one for
Native and another for Unix Sub System) to run
jobs. With this integration, customers do not
have to install 2 agents to run jobs
DB query failure alarm DBQuery alarm gets sent to SNMP without
having to write to database.
DB Problem alarm gets sent to SNMP by both
Scheduler and Application Server even during DB
connection issues.

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CA WA AE - Under Consideration
As of October 2015
Features Description Benefit
Multithreaded Listener support Enhance single threaded listener to
multithreaded architecture
Improved agent status processing. Eliminate
false chase alarms.
Enhance log tracing Enhanced log tracing – standard logging versus
advanced logging
Logs with tracing collected in real time thus
eliminating the need to recreate problem with
traces
Scheduling to applications in the Cloud Provide the ability to schedule to applications
running in the cloud
Cloud scheduling capabilities
Integration with SAP Business Objects (BO),
Process Integration(PI)
Provide native integrations with SAP BO and PI Eliminates silos. Customers can now integrate
with SAP BO and PI
Enhancing existing SAP Job Type We are supporting the 2.0 of the interface now
and we want to upgrade to 3.0 (XBP – external
business processing) version of the interface.
Customers can define temporary variants as part
of the job definition and spool enhancements
Granular level security for sendevent Restore WCC functionality and provide it from
the base engine level
Customers will have more granular level control
on who can issue what kind of events.
Support for INFORMATICA and SQL Server Provide native support for Informatica and SQL
Server jobtypes
Customers can use the native support as
opposed to writing scripts and running
command jobs

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CA WA AE - Under Consideration
As of October 2015
Features Description Benefit
New flow for application editor Improving and modernizing job flow in
application editor.
Upgrading due to license end (iLog)
Better scalability and performance, new modern
UI, better look and feel for users
Ability to list future events When submitting future event, list of already
submitted future events will be displayed
Avoidance of double submitting of already
submitted event.
Ability to get history of performed events Review the history of performed events. Avoidance of double submitting of already
submitted event.
Ability to perform batch job operations Ability to quickly change job attributes, delete
jobs, perform events
Ability to perform batch operations in WCC
Expose new cluster nodes widget Ability to see status of WCC nodes in HA; log
retrieval from WCC UI
Status check of the WCC nodes in HA cluster;
ability to get logs without the need to access
remote filesystem
Failover to the next AppServer in the list when
no response for some period of time
Failover to the next AppServer in the list when
no response for some period of time
Automatic failover without loss of business
Create object tree with flow and details Creating and bringing back modernized job tree
from 11.1
Making work of operators easier with having
hierarchy structure and everything on one single
page

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CA WA AE - Under Consideration
As of October 2015
Features Description Benefit
Job Flow Enhancements Improving current job flow to respond with
latest changes (available in iDash), fixing minor
bugs and adding enhancements requested by
customers
Look and feel, usability
Custom colors for job statuses in flow Ability to select colors to indicate severity of
various job statuses
Customization of job nodes status color to
reflect custom order of job status severity
Display job instructions Ability to assign the document with instruction
to jobs (via URL); URL will be quickly accessible
from WCC
Job run instructions are quickly accessible
directly from WCC without manual steps
Job detail in Monitoring Ability to see jobs structure, flow and selected
job details in one screen
No need to switch between WCC tabs
Enhancement to Users widget Ability to terminate one or more WCC user
sessions
Administrator can force users to logout
(frequently requested feature)
Add calendars to flows Ability to see associated calendars for jobs in
flow
Quick overview over the flow dependencies
Streamlined resources management AE Resources editable from QuickEdit.
Resources visible on dedicated Dashboard
widget
Better UX than existing Resources tab