One of the product feature in Release Automation is to create scheduled jobs which will execute a process automatically at specific time and date in a periodic fashion.
In scenario where we are trying to upgrade or trying to create a dump of the product database for upgrade it is advised to remove such scheduled jobs to avoid automatic initialization of process execution which can block the upgrade process and can result in erroneous data in dump.
CA Release Automation: 6.*
The listed step can be performed by an administrator using JMX console exposed for administrative managements.
Steps to remove scheduled jobs
In case if the JMX default port is not enabled in your environment, you can verify which port is configured for JMX by accessing file distributed.properties on path <ReleaseAutomationInstallDir>\webapps\datamanagement\WEB-INF and look for text jmx.web.console.port.The port number mentioned here will be the port where JMX is exposed.
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