In the current CA-7 manual, the first page says, in very big letters:

CA Workload Automation SE

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler
> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 10:40 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: CA product numbers (was 'Inexperienced' RBS tech 
> operative's blunder led to banking meltdown)
> 
> : CA product numbers (was 'Inexperienced' RBS tech 
> operative's blunder led to banking meltdown)
> >
> >I've always loved the early CA product naming scheme (CA-1, 
> CA-7, et al.). Just think what that saved in marketing costs 
> (to secure rights to a name), not to mention tsuris in 
> internal naming meetings!
> >
> >Of course, if they'd kept with it, we'd now be arguing over 
> whether CA-237 or CA-984 was the better choice for a 
> particular problem.
> >
> >Maybe the folks who came up with that scheme are now at IBM, 
> naming z boxes? (Yes, yes, I *know* the numbers in "z196" and 
> "z114" mean something, I'm just sayin'...)
> >--
> >...phsiii
> >
> >
> 
> 
> Actaully those numbers come from Ucc numbering systems.  Such as 
> 
> UCC-1 is CA1
> UCC-7 is CA7
> 
> and so forth.
> 
> CA just kept the names (1, 7, etc) and will probably go into 
> a rename process at some point.
> 
> CA7 will probably be renamed to something like WORKLOAD 
> AUTOMATION product.
> 
> Lizette
> 
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