Oracle-L: RE: CA's AutoSys

From: Johnston, Tim <TJohnston_at_quallaby.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 09:14:11 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.004ED8E3.20021018091411@fatcity.com>

I too had issues with this product... But, it was several years ago... Back then it was owned by Platinum and the product ran on NT 3.51... We were using it to schedule all our Unix batch jobs for the Sales Force Automation project I was working on... Unfortunately, I was the first project using it at the company and had to suffer through many of the issues detailed below... If I remember correctly, it eventually got to a "workable" state after a couple months of patches and workarounds... I remember one job in particular... PSFUNX35... Every Friday night/Saturday morning about 3:00 AM I would get a call from the operations center in Parkersburg, WV...

"Hello Tim... This is Jack in Parkersburg... Sorry to bother you... But, PS - FUN - X35 failed again..."

He used to pronounce the job as... PS [break] FUN [break] X35... Needless to say it was not very fun...

:-)

Tim

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Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 12:19 PM
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Run Screaming in the opposite direction.

Product was a semi-disaster at two previous job sites. Failed to run jobs when scheduled, failed to detected when dependent jobs failed. Just plain didn't work well.

Of course this was when Platinum owned the product, who knows, maybe CA improved it. (although I would doubt it).

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Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 11:50 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

To All,

I'll admit this is somewhat off-topic, but since the project is going to

handle all scheduled batch jobs that bang on our PeopleSoft Oracle database, I
figured I'd ask if anyone has an opinion preferably from experience using the
product. The Complete A^^holes are here today to do a demo install so any input
you all have would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Dick Goulet
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