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. For those products that embed the Oracle JRE, customers continue to have the option of applying their own updates working within the product guidelines.[1] In the short-term, this impacts the following products/components currently available for download:
- CA Workload Automation AE 11.3.6 SP4, SP5, SP6, SP7, and SP8
- CA Workload Control Center for Sun Solaris 11.4 SP4, SP5, SP6, and SP7
- CA Workload Automation System Agent 11.3 SP7
The above product images were impacted due to the Oracle Java 8 JRE distributed for the Solaris 32-bit platform. Unfortunately, a combination of the existing product architecture and available JREs for the Solaris platform require us to remove those components from the install images that are dependent on the Solaris JRE. This means the server components (e.g. Scheduler, Application Server, WCC, etc.) will no longer be installable, using the updated images described below, due to the 32-bit architecture dependency on Solaris. The client utilities are not impacted. Existing Solaris installations are still supported. If you require Solaris agent support, you will have to install the Solaris 64-bit agent available beginning with the 11.4 agent release.
The above product images are all being withdrawn and are being replaced with updated images that do not include the Solaris 32-bit platform.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 images that contained the Solaris 32-bit JRE. If you need these original images for your backup, you will need to download them prior to this time.
The long-term strategy 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 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.