I second Neil on his comments. i have had the pleasurable experience of working/migrating and supporting ESP for quite a while now and found it to be absolutely Delightful. The features and controls have been quite streamlined for different Support groups which can be monitored/audited as per will and easy use...not to out mention, the GUIs specially helps the Prod control guys with minimum training as its quite elaborate and easy use. Also to appreciate its robust Cross platform integration under one umbrella management!
Cheers, Amit On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 3:20 AM, Neil Duffee <nduf...@uottawa.ca> wrote: > ESP499I ESP RELEASE 5.5 SP2 INITIALIZED, > > Approaching 2 decades of use from when it was a CyberMation product. > **VERY** pleased with the product tho' we're concerned with how it might > morph/sunset under CA's ownership. > > Can't talk about other products since the only comparison was done at > initial purchase. However, at that time, the person to become the major > user - our Production Control guy - spent 2-4 months of investigation. I > recall him specifically mentioning zeke, zak, & CA-7(?) among others that > were deemed lesser than ESP. [then] > > In fact, it would take major effort to replace it in our environment since > it's become ubiquitous. Besides the initial user, Operations, Systems, DBAs > all run their tasks with it and there are also a number of users that > support their applications with it. I have an application designed to span > more than a week which stops the running job at a specific time of day and > re-subs it on the next day. Tho' it's not used anymore, I had another > multi-day application that allowed vault tapes time to return to the data > centre for amalgamation and later return. I even have an application that > will cycle - daily - a group of back-end services (singly threaded) such > that only half are stopped at any point in time. > > I understand that it now provides functionality (we don't have/use it) to > extend the automation to other hosts (*nix, Linux, win, AS/400) using z/OS > as the central management hub. > ----------> signature = 6 lines follows <-------------- > Neil Duffee, Joe SysProg, U d'Ottawa, Ottawa, Ont, Canada > telephone:1 613 562 5800 x4585 fax:1 613 562 5161 > mailto:NDuffee of uOttawa.ca http:/ /aix1.uottawa.ca/ ~nduffee > "How *do* you plan for something like that?" Guardian Bob, Reboot > "For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism." > "Systems Programming: Guilty, until proven innocent" John Norgauer 2004 > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: gsg [mailto:gsg...@yah..com] > > Sent: September 10, 2010 17:37 > > Subject: CA ESP Workload Automation > > > > Does anyone use a CA job scheduler product called ESP > > Workload Automation? > > > > PROS/CONS compared to other job schedulers? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
