December 17, 2024
To: CA 7 Workload Automation Customers
From: The Broadcom CA 7 Workload Automation Product Team
Subject: General Availability Announcement for Workload Automation Observability for CA 7
Workload Automation & Intelligence 12.1
On behalf of Broadcom, we appreciate your business and the opportunity to provide you with high-
quality, innovative software and services. As part of our ongoing commitment to customer success, we
regularly release updated versions of our products. Today, we are pleased to announce a new
capability Workload Automation Observability is now available.
This capability provides a modern and flexible way for System Operators, SREs, and application
developers to work with CA 7 job events. By leveraging OpenTelemetry™-compliant observability
platforms and their rich capabilities, these teams can create self-service monitoring dashboards, utilize
built-in' AI/ML capabilities to generate insights and proactive alerting, and easily integrate with 3rd party
tools using natively available integrations.
When capability is fully implemented, each participating instance of CA 7 delivers a continuous stream
of event notifications in near real-time to the OpenTelemetry-compliant observability platform you
choose.
To enable this capability for your CA 7 systems, both PTF LU15294
and the Workload Automation Observability 12.1 non-z/OS services must be installed. Workload
Automation Observability 12.1 includes distributed container images that are deployable to Red Hat
Enterprise OpenShift (x86). For the Workload Automation Observability services, we offer installation
of the required container images using a conventional install package or directly from Broadcom's
online registry.
We encourage you to visit the CA 7 product information page and technical documentation site.
You can download the components to enable Workload Automation Observability from Broadcom
Support Online https://support.broadcom.com/. To install your product, follow the installation
procedures. If you have any questions or require assistance, contact Support.
Should you need any assistance in understanding these new features, or implementing this latest
release, our implementation services partners can help. Please contact your local account
representative for more information on how they can help. To connect, learn, and share with other
customers, join and participate in our CA 7 Workload Automation Community.
For a list of Mainframe Education courses recommended by role, please visit the Learning Paths and
select the desired product. We update courses based on functional impact as well as high-demand;
therefore, courses created from previous releases may apply to the current release.
Please review our End of Service / End of Life Policy at Broadcom Maintenance Policy Handbook.
Thank you again for your business.
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