Automic jobs kick off at wrong time day after Autumn DST change
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Automic jobs kick off at wrong time day after Autumn DST change

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Article ID: 139054

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Products

CA Automic Workload Automation - Automation Engine CA Automic One Automation

Issue/Introduction

Jobs schedule between 12 AM and 1 AM the Monday after the Autumn Daylight Saving Time switch all executed at 1 AM

Environment

The issue affects the following service packs per release: 

Automation.Engine 11.2.9 and 11.2.10
Automation.Engine 12.0.6 and 12.0.7
Automation.Engine 12.1.3 and 12.1.4
Automation.Engine 12.2.1 and 12.2.2

Cause

This is caused by a bug in the routine that calculates the next period turnaround of a schedule object

Resolution

Workaround:

This is the suggested solution to minimize foreseen and unforeseen impact of the DST bug.


Quit the schedules on Sunday evening by 23h59

On Monday morning, start the schedules after 00h01


Alternatively, the schedules can be stopped by 23h59 on Sunday and the tasks run manually up until 01h00 at which point the schedules can be started again

Fix:

This has been fixed in the following releases:


Automation.Engine 12.2.2 HF2 - Available

Automation.Engine 12.1.4 HF2 - Available

Automation.Engine 12.0.7 HF1 - Available

Automation.Engine 11.2.10 HF1 - Available


Automation.Engine 12.0.8 - Available

Automation.Engine 12.1.5 - Available

Automation.Engine 12.2.3 - Available

Automation.Engine 12.3.0 - Available 



Additional Information

For issues with the spring DST change, please see article https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article/129487