# CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence Reviews **Vendor:** Broadcom **Category:** [Workload Automation Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/workload-automation) **Average Rating:** 4.2/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 30 ## About CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence CA Workload Automation CA7 is a workload automation solution, by automating many of the labor-intensive tasks associated with workload automation and monitoring for z Systems. It helps to development from existing processes, and automates complex performance management to respond faster to changing SLA requirements. ## CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence Reviews ### 1. User Friendly tool to handle Application batches in Mainframe **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** BABIYA M. | Sr Tech Associate, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 18, 2023 **What do you like best about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence?** The interface is easy to understand and use. **What do you dislike about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence?** Lots of permissions required before using, maybe varies from company to company not sure. **What problems is CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence solving and how is that benefiting you?** Handling the Mainframe Batches of Critical Application used during the Tax Season in United States ### 2. Its easy to learn - command based tool used ever. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mayank M. | Lead Infrastructure Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 06, 2021 **What do you like best about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence?** There are couple to things to be liked : 1.>Command based tool - easy to learn. 2.>Divided the worload in different panels such as db.1,db.2,db.7 to schedule jobs as per requriment. **What do you dislike about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence?** I did not experienced anything bad about tool till now.Somewhere i have seen error in db.7 during overriding the jobs , we need to double enter for single operation. **Recommendations to others considering CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence:** Its been a four years i am working on this scheduling tool.I liked to play with jobs on CA7. **What problems is CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1.>we can schedule the jobs with required conditions- time,dependancy of other jobs. 2.>Multiple library access to submit the jobs from test or production. 3.>xqueue panel is really useful - it provides number of operations such as cancel,force,edit,demand,post,etc features in single window. ### 3. CA Workload Automation **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 25, 2022 **What do you like best about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence?** In our Project we use CA Workload Automation CA7 for Scheduling,running the Our daily production jobs are running through CA7 **What do you dislike about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence?** In some cases I feel it is quite difficult to simulate the cycle already present **What problems is CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence solving and how is that benefiting you?** Istead of running the jobs manually, we will schedule the jobs using the CA7 Scheduler ### 4. AutoSys - Workload Automation **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sagar M. | Founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 20, 2021 **What do you like best about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence?** - Processing is good - JIL format is easy **What do you dislike about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence?** - No great GUI - No autoloading or agent less **What problems is CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence solving and how is that benefiting you?** - Job Scheduling - Automation ### 5. CA7 Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 03, 2021 **What do you like best about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence?** I used CA workload Automation CA7 for 10 years during my time working for a major bank. I found it to be user-friendly once you got used to it. I preferred it over Control-M and Autosys. **What do you dislike about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence?** One thing I wish it did better would be its ability to review batch jobs upstream or downstream. I always found it to be a lengthy manual effort following batch jobs back. **What problems is CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence solving and how is that benefiting you?** CA7 was used to schedule daily, weekly, and monthly batch processing for a major bank. It ensured jobs ran smoothly (resources were available, no capacity issue, etc). ### 6. A Perfect Tool for Automation and Schedulling Jobs. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Subham C. | Programmer Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 30, 2021 **What do you like best about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence?** CA Workload Automation is an preety handy and user friendly tool to help you automate the process very smoothly. You can easily use this tool to schedule a number of jobs depending upon your project requirements and deliverables. **What do you dislike about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence?** No doubt CA Workload Automation is one of the amazing tools available presently in market but there are sometimes that the tools gets hanged when you work in development area in the Define section which makes the tool very slow. I hope this issue can be fixed as soon as possible for a better user experience. **Recommendations to others considering CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence:** CA Workload Automation is an preety handy and user friendly tool to help you automate the process very smoothly. You can easily use this tool to schedule a number of jobs depending upon your project requirements. **What problems is CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence solving and how is that benefiting you?** The most of the problems that we are solving are mainly related to the connectivity issues due to which we might some job failures and this might impact our project deliverables. ### 7. Simple and User friendly Interface **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Krishnamoorthi K. | IMS Database Administrator, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 20, 2021 **What do you like best about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence?** Being a person who spend a lot of time in CA7 for batch monitoring and fixes, I see the simple and user friendly interface as the foremost. Repetitive Commands can be saved to function keys for day to day usage which makes life a lot easier. Job CLASS option gives the flexibility to open or close specific classes during day and night. This can also be used to limit the maximum number of jobs that can be run at a time. This is being very helpful in our estate to hold the high MIPS consuming jobs during peak hours and allow to run when the system is normal or at less load. The functionality of the batch jobs can also be controlled using JI cards with multiple Schedule IDs. This will allow the same batch job to perform different functionalities when executed using different schedule IDs. This comes handy especially when different operations are carried out for daily/weekly/monthly runs and avoids complex application logic. Job look back for completion of predecessor job can be controlled for a specific duration(say 3hrs or 5hrs) using lead time option. Forward and reverse structure options gives the entire batch flow of downstream and upstream respectively and this is of great help when comes to batch impact analysis List of jobs using/creating a specific dataset can be pulled using LDSN command. This saves time with impact analysis for the file changes. Last run day/time and total number of run of a specific job is saved within and this is helpful for to extract the stats for a specific job. Calendar view of the job schedule is very helpful to visualize. LRLOG option gives the job run/restart history. This is very helpful for tracking. **What do you dislike about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence?** Although the overall experience of CA7 is very good. I would love to have the below improvements. Forward and reverse structures does list only the triggered jobs. It would be much helpful for impact analysis if successors or included as well. The job requirement posting will not happen automatically when there are more than one instances of a job is waiting in queue. This needs manual intervention to post the requirement. **Recommendations to others considering CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence:** I would definitely recommend CA7 over other schedulers especially if your application needs to spend significant amount of time in monitoring and fixes. **What problems is CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence solving and how is that benefiting you?** I do support the overnight batches running on CA7 which has over 9K+ jobs overall. Being an active user, I have saved the standard commands that are needed for my day to day activities to the function keys and it makes my life a lot easier and saves a lot of time, when it comes to monitoring the daily batch schedules and fixing issues. ### 8. It's a very simple job scheduling tool allows you to a proper batch execution of the process. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Swapnil S. | Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2021 **What do you like best about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence?** CA7 commands, they are simple to remember, and one can simply play with them to get complete knowledge of the Jobs in queue, Jobs in failed state with the respective return code, also allows you yo take all necessary options to Rereun or Force complete. **What do you dislike about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence?** As I have always worked on CA7 with a mainframe screen, just one thing I dislike once you come down in the job scheduling description it does not allow you to go back up, again the same CA7 command we need to fire to see the contents in begining. **Recommendations to others considering CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence:** Yes, it's a very simple scheduling tool to keep your work smooth **What problems is CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence solving and how is that benefiting you?** It becomes easy for a person working under operations department to review any job failures, I use CA7 for my batch monitoring, if any job fails, it gives us proper return code to identify what could cause the issue and we fix them as per resolution. ### 9. Very powerful tool for workload management and automation **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kaanchan K. | Senior Advisory Technical Services Specialist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 14, 2021 **What do you like best about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence?** The queue based system which is very streamlined and helpful to manage large complex workloads with ease. It is very easy to set up the dependence between jobs and also to understand the very complex nature of batch schedule. The full featured setup for the full control of run cycle of jobs based on various factors like time, precedence, event, triggers, file availability makes it perfect tool for workload automation and control. The simplicity of the solution is very good, so we can do day to day activities like run, rerun, stop, hold etc very quickly as well as long term scheduling is also very much easy and robust. **What do you dislike about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence?** The panel based interface can be a little daunting to early users. But surely it gets very intuitive very fast. Some kind of scheduling and control requirements are also a bit tricky to implement but overall not too many complaint about CA7 tool. Also another downside is lack of online resources for the problems encountered. So there is a scope of improvement in that area. **Recommendations to others considering CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence:** Definately go for it as it is the best tool available for the complete control on your batch and also for automating the workload and implementation of new workload management practices. **What problems is CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence solving and how is that benefiting you?** Handling overall batch management using CA7 . Thousands of jobs are run without much human intervention. There is a lot of possibilities to automate the complete batch workload with ca7 and it has all the bells and whistles which we need from event based trigger to job availability based control for schedule setup, it gives all possible options to make it a complete solution of batch management. Another benefit is that you do not need different tools for batch management, scheduling and automation and recovery. It provides all of it in a single solution, we can do our daily batch management as well as full end to end scheduling of batch workload as well as we can do the robust automation. So it's a very powerful standalone tool for complete workload automation. ### 10. Perfect for mainframe automation, it works very well for mainframe to mainframe automation too. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 06, 2021 **What do you like best about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence?** I like the way you can do an fstruc or listing of the schedule and it tells you the order of the jobs and there dependencies. **What do you dislike about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence?** CA7 does not work very well cross platform BUT ESP workload management does a very good job at that, also a CA product. Workload management beats CA& hand down. **Recommendations to others considering CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence:** If you use mainframe only CA7 is the best buy. If you are a cross platform user workload automation formally known as (ESP) is more robust and a heck of alot more fun to use. The GUI interface opens all aspects of scheduling to even the novis user. **What problems is CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence solving and how is that benefiting you?** Daily schedules that run differently on different days use multible SCHD'S so what runs on Monday can be different then what runs on Tuesday. ### 11. Simple and Solid tool for Mainframe job scheduler **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 03, 2021 **What do you like best about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence?** It is very easy to use as the UI is quite good. Helps in scheduling of tasks of project deployment. Coming on to Mainframe part, CA7 is very helpful and powerful tool for mainframe operators. We do have many schedulers available but it top among all of them. Simple and very solid yo yse. Job schedules and workload can be managed very easily with out any difficulties. With CA you can monitor your progress on tasks accomplishment and schedule. **What do you dislike about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence?** Never experienced any issues with it till this point of time. I would give 4 stars out of 5. 1 star I always keep in my bucket as nothing is perfect in the world. Truly speaking great tool. **Recommendations to others considering CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence:** I would suggest to atleast try it once. We do have schedulers available but it is damn good to use. **What problems is CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mainframe job schedule, Project work, automation work. ### 12. CA workload automation CA7 tool is an user friendly tool which is used in my lot of project and easy **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 04, 2021 **What do you like best about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence?** job Scheduling which is very user friendly **What do you dislike about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence?** command must have bit more convenient to user **Recommendations to others considering CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence:** nthg for now **What problems is CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence solving and how is that benefiting you?** Job runs which makes our work very easy ### 13. Top scheduler **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pranav M. | Technology Lead, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 12, 2021 **What do you like best about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence?** Very documentative Results and powerful, also very widely used **What do you dislike about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence?** Not the best user friendly interfaces, requires multiple resources to achieve the whole task **Recommendations to others considering CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence:** Please use it after comparing it with other work schedulers. Each of them has their own benefits, but CA7 is definitely very powerful and useful for analytical purposes **What problems is CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps us schedule jobs and also useful for analysis purposes ### 14. Easiest way to handle schedule **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rajesh D. | Software Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 14, 2020 **What do you like best about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence?** Command interface is simple and easy to use. Scheduling easy to use. **What do you dislike about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence?** Show the large display count of active jobs in current schedule **Recommendations to others considering CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence:** I strongly recommend to use CA7 by companies looking for their batch to run smooth without any hassle. **What problems is CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence solving and how is that benefiting you?** Editing the failed job abs run directly from CA7 easiest to handle and scheduling is very simpler if require any temporary changes while running batch. ### 15. Job automation with CA7 **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vigneshwaran K. | Software Designer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 02, 2021 **What do you like best about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence?** Commands and easy to use. It is very effective and user friendly **What do you dislike about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence?** Nothing I dislike but there is always a scope for improvement.. there could be better web UI design which connected with CA7 Mainframe **What problems is CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence solving and how is that benefiting you?** Efficiency has been improved.. incorrected flow has been very minimized after using CA7. Automation of flows was effective ### 16. CA7 automation ease **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** JOY M. | Analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 07, 2021 **What do you like best about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence?** The automation task is very well designed and had removed the manual process working through other softwares. The jobs are pretty easy to develop. **What do you dislike about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence?** Just like everything has a bit of cons, what I feel is in CA7 you need to remember the jobs schedule before triggering, else it will be auto -triggered as defined. **What problems is CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence solving and how is that benefiting you?** Have completely removed manual process which has solved the time processing and consumer effectiveness of work. ### 17. CA7 is fantastic scheduling tool ever I used **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hemanth kumar M. | Manger information Technology , Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 16, 2020 **What do you like best about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence?** One of the sophisticated tools for scheduling. Easy to achieve complex schedules Easy to handle the calendars Easy to create job and flows Easy to update the changes on entire jobs at a time **What do you dislike about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence?** GUI is not officially introduced though CA7 has beta version **What problems is CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence solving and how is that benefiting you?** Complex schedules Complex calendars On time file transfer confirmations Online updates Critical batch flows ### 18. CA7 Workload Automation is a great tool which helps us to understand the flow of jobs scheduled **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chaitanya Viswanadh J. | Tech Support Manager, Hospital & Health Care, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 07, 2021 **What do you like best about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence?** It is helpful in providing faster turn around time using the existing process **What do you dislike about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence?** CA7 is a highly efficient system which needs high maintenance services **What problems is CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence solving and how is that benefiting you?** Able to manage multi platform and application dependencies from a single point of control ### 19. It's very user friendly , easy to put command and get out put. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** RAHUL S. | Operations Analyst, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 08, 2021 **What do you like best about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence?** Different kinds of command to get out put as we needed **What do you dislike about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence?** Need to improve it in graphical mode, So easy to analyse **What problems is CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy to monitor batch jobs And it's scheduling. ### 20. Solid Job Scheduler **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** William (Billy) M. | Exploring New Opportunities, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 08, 2021 **What do you like best about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence?** Flexibility is a plus. Can do all you need. **What do you dislike about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence?** Clunky z/OS command line. Maybe a legacy complaint... **What problems is CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence solving and how is that benefiting you?** Converting serialized batch flow, running on multi-platforms; conversion to parallel batch. ### 21. Very user friendly tool to schedule jobs **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 05, 2021 **What do you like best about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence?** It has multiple instances for jobs and crystal clear logs. So that we can modify the JCL as per the requirement. **What do you dislike about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence?** We use Rumba to operate CA7 jobs. Console should be more user friendly. **What problems is CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence solving and how is that benefiting you?** As it uses mainframe servers, the jobs run timely without any inevitable circumstances. ### 22. Software Engineer **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andy H. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 13, 2021 **What do you like best about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence?** Reduce dependences on scripting and coding **What do you dislike about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence?** Some information or instructions are not clear **What problems is CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easiest to handle and schedule ### 23. Best scheduling tool for Mainframe jobs **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 10, 2021 **What do you like best about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence?** Jobs handling and easy to use. Shows complete hierarchy of predecessors and successors jobs **What do you dislike about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence?** Doesn't show which jobs access a given set of datasets. **What problems is CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps to see the jobs that have abended and what could be the best course of action to be taken on the failed jobs. ### 24. Simple tool to schedule mainframe jobs **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 05, 2021 **What do you like best about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence?** CA7 can be used for both developers and mainframe operators Job schedules and workload can be managed very easily with out any difficulties **What do you dislike about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence?** We can have real time load of schedule. Currently schedule can be refreshed at time intervals **What problems is CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence solving and how is that benefiting you?** Adding mainframe batch jobs to existing batch schedule Mainframe operation management ### 25. Only one Great Scheduling tool on mainframes **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 09, 2021 **What do you like best about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence?** User interface compare to controlM and zeke. Many quick options and easy to understand **What do you dislike about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence?** Best when comapring to other equivalent tools. So i dont dislike anything in it **What problems is CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence solving and how is that benefiting you?** Batch Scheduling Batch monitoring Automations ### 26. Workload CA7 excellent platform **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 17, 2021 **What do you like best about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence?** Helps really well in api automations and security efficiency. **What do you dislike about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence?** So far i have never experience difficulty in using the automation app. **Recommendations to others considering CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence:** You should give it a try. **What problems is CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence solving and how is that benefiting you?** Exposing api endpoints to web portal. ### 27. Best workload automation tool **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 16, 2020 **What do you like best about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence?** Easy scheduling and monitoring jobs, also cancellation. **What do you dislike about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence?** Showing the large display of active jobs **What problems is CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence solving and how is that benefiting you?** Scheduling Informatica jobs in CA7 ### 28. CA Workload Best Work Schedule **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kariuki P. | ICT Systems Operations Engineer , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 23, 2019 **What do you like best about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence?** Easy to use as the UI is quite impressive working on the latest version. We used to really depend on scheduling of tasks on early stages of project deployment and CA is very okay with that follow up. With CA you can monitor your progress on tasks accomplished and schedule for what needs to be done **What do you dislike about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence?** QA tends to be a bit sluggish in performing most tasks, I really didn't get what was making it that heavy **Recommendations to others considering CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence:** Really need to get the software lighter and make it easy to use as well for CA to get more users **What problems is CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence solving and how is that benefiting you?** Tasks assignment and monitoring the same, scheduling of jobs as well ### 29. Ca7 workload for schedular **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 27, 2019 **What do you like best about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence?** I used Ca7 software for scheduling and managing batch jobs in the mainframe environment . Jobs can be cancelled , restarted or forced stop by passing parameters in the jcl of ca7 and thereby managed . **What do you dislike about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence?** Once the user has hands on practice and knowledge of using the ca7 software , it is very useful and convenient for jobs to be run depending on priority otherwise it canbe difficult to manage. **What problems is CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used ca7 schedular for monitoring jcl jobs run in the batch mode on mainframe . ### 30. Too sophisticated for a simple automation job **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 25, 2018 **What do you like best about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence?** Capability to run remote code on triggers **What do you dislike about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence?** Option and sub-options information is not user-friendly **What problems is CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automating batch jobs to run everyday on schedule, using a pre-coded autosys file ## CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence Discussions - [What does CA ESP stand for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-does-ca-esp-stand-for) - [What is CA7 tool?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-ca7-tool) - [What is workload automation software?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/ca-workload-automation-ca7-what-is-workload-automation-software) - [What is CA workload automation Tool?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-ca-workload-automation-tool) - [Do we have any help documents CA7 command which can list all CA7 commands used in scheduling](https://www.g2.com/discussions/36396-do-we-have-any-help-documents-ca7-command-which-can-list-all-ca7-commands-used-in-scheduling) - 1 upvote - [View CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/ca-7-workload-automation-intelligence/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-08+03%3A48%3A43+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=e29de248-e91d-42c8-8602-c2db9d9f5f14&secure%5Btoken%5D=03d3bd86f67a203630e2631934dc9a5128d7fd123859bc234af3610b1b1bf86d&format=llm_user) ## CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence Features **Automation** - Workload Processing - Scalability - Intelligent Automation **Administration** - Administration Console - Workflow Management - IT Issue Identification - Proactive Workflow - Error Alerts - Service Management **Functionality** - Job Scheduling - API / Integrations - Integrations **Agentic AI - Workload Automation** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making ## Top CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence Alternatives - [Control-M](https://www.g2.com/products/control-m/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (151 reviews) - [RunMyJobs](https://www.g2.com/products/runmyjobs/reviews) - 4.8/5.0 (308 reviews) - [ActiveBatch](https://www.g2.com/products/activebatch/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (229 reviews)