--- title: CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence Reviews meta\_title: 'CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 30 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.2 review\_count: 30 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: IT Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/it-management --- # CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence Reviews & Product Details 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. * * * Seller [Broadcom](https://www.g2.com/sellers/broadcom-ab3091cd-4724-46a8-ac89-219d6bc8e166) Discussions [CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence Community](https://www.g2.com/products/ca-7-workload-automation-intelligence/discuss) Solution Type Best-of-Breed Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/ca-7-workload-automation-intelligence/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Control-M](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Control-M") Control-M 4.4/5(176) ](https://www.g2.com/products/control-m/reviews) [ ![RunMyJobs](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "RunMyJobs") RunMyJobs 4.8/5(313) ](https://www.g2.com/products/runmyjobs/reviews) [ ![ActiveBatch](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "ActiveBatch") ActiveBatch 4.5/5(236) ](https://www.g2.com/products/activebatch/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/ca-7-workload-automation-intelligence/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 30 real user reviews. Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Verified User in Insurance](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Insurance") UI Verified User in Insurance Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 2/25/2022 "CA Workload Automation" 4/5 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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Sagar M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Sagar M.") SM Sagar M. Founder Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 12/20/2021 "AutoSys - Workload Automation" 3.5/5 What do you like best about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence? - Processing is good - JIL format is easy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence? - No great GUI - No autoloading or agent less Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence solving and how is that benefiting you? - Job Scheduling - Automation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 5/27/2024 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Banking](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Banking") UB Verified User in Banking Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 9/3/2021 "CA7 Review" 4/5 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Swapnil S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Swapnil S.") SS Swapnil S. Software Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 1/19/2021 "It's a very simple job scheduling tool allows you to a proper batch execution of the process." 3.5/5 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence: Yes, it's a very simple scheduling tool to keep your work smooth Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Telecommunications](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Telecommunications") UT Verified User in Telecommunications Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 1/6/2021 "Perfect for mainframe automation, it works very well for mainframe to mainframe automation too." 4/5 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Insurance](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Insurance") UI Verified User in Insurance Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 2/3/2021 "Simple and Solid tool for Mainframe job scheduler" 4/5 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence solving and how is that benefiting you? Mainframe job schedule, Project work, automation work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Seller invite ![Pranav M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Pranav M.") PM Pranav M. Technology Lead Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/12/2021 "Top scheduler" 3.5/5 What do you like best about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence? Very documentative Results and powerful, also very widely used Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence? Not the best user friendly interfaces, requires multiple resources to achieve the whole task Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![JOY M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "JOY M.") JM JOY M. Analyst Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 1/7/2021 "CA7 automation ease" 4/5 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![RAHUL S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "RAHUL S.") RS RAHUL S. Operations Analyst Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/8/2021 "It's very user friendly , easy to put command and get out put." 3.5/5 What do you like best about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence? Different kinds of command to get out put as we needed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence? Need to improve it in graphical mode, So easy to analyse Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence solving and how is that benefiting you? Easy to monitor batch jobs And it's scheduling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") UI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 2/5/2021 "Very user friendly tool to schedule jobs" 4/5 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence? We use Rumba to operate CA7 jobs. Console should be more user friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ##### Pricing Pricing details for this product isn’t currently available. Visit the vendor’s website to learn more. 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