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Oracle Java Licensing Change Impact on CA Workload Automation Agent

  • 1.  Oracle Java Licensing Change Impact on CA Workload Automation Agent

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Aug 12, 2019 10:32 AM

    CA Technologies, a Broadcom Company, is continually working to improve our software and services to best meet the needs of our customers. Based on customer feedback, we are incorporating more open source technologies into our digital transformation solutions and are reducing reliance on proprietary third-party components.

    As part of this, the Workload Automation family of products will be using open source implementations of Java. The next releases of these products, beginning with CA Workload Automation Agent, will include an option to use an embedded open source JRE. In accordance with CA Technologies Support Policy and Terms at https://casupport.broadcom.com/, please consider this message as written notification that we will discontinue product updates related to Oracle Java, beginning August 19, 2019. CA Workload Automation customers continue to have the option of applying their own Oracle JRE updates working within the product guidelines.[1] This also impacts the following product release currently available for download:

     

    CA Workload Automation System Agent 11.3 SP7

     

    The above product image was impacted due to the Oracle Java 8 JRE distributed for the Solaris 32-bit platform. Unfortunately, availability of a 32-bit Solaris JRE appears to require releases of Oracle Java that we are unable to provide to our customers. Consequently, the above product image is being withdrawn and is being replaced with an updated image that does not include the Solaris 32-bit platform. As of August 16, 2019, at the end of the day, we will no longer distribute the original image that contained the Solaris 32-bit JRE. If you need the original image for your backup, you will need to download them prior to this time. This means the Solaris 32-bit agent will no longer be installable, using the updated image described above. Existing Solaris installations are still supported. Customers using the 32-bit Solaris agent are strongly encouraged to install the Solaris 64-bit agent available beginning with the 11.4 agent release.

    The long-term strategy, beginning with the Workload Automation Agent 11.5 release, is to provide customers the option of using either an embedded JRE from an open source community using the OpenJDK as its foundation or providing us the location of a supported JRE (e.g. commercial Oracle JRE with support from Oracle) already installed and licensed independently by the customer. The OpenJDK and commercial Oracle JRE are expected to remain compatible. We plan to test with both distributions. We will fully support the OpenJDK and distribute maintenance as it becomes available via standard maintenance. We will also provide a reasonable effort to support those compatible releases of the commercial Oracle JRE provided by the customer in accordance with CA's Reasonable Commercial Effort Statement.

    [1] We will provide a reasonable effort to support compatible releases of the commercial Oracle JRE provided by the customer in accordance with CA's Reasonable Commercial Effort Statement.