WA Agent: i5 (AS/400) does stay active or run jobs

Products

• Workload Automation Agent
• CA Workload Automation AE - System Agent (AutoSys)
• CA Workload Automation DE - System Agent (dSeries)

Issue/Introduction

When CA WA Agent 11.5 is added on manager side (ESP/dSeries/Autosys), the agent may not show up as active.  The WA Agent may not be able to run job due to following key or undecipherable errors.

XX/25/2019 XX:33:21.668 GMT-03:00-0300 2 TCP/IP Controller Plugin.Receiver pool thread <Regular:1>.CybReceiverSession.getMessageOriginator[:393] - Invalid data received

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00000000 |X2 X0 X1 X9 | |........@.......|

00000010 |X6 XE X0 X5 | |.N....@........@|

......

cybermation.library.afm.CybInvalidAFMException: Invalid AFM

at cybermation.library.afm.CybAFMParser.scan(CybAFMParser.java:329)

at cybermation.library.afm.CybAFMParser.<init>(CybAFMParser.java:151)

...............................

 

XX/25/2019 XX:33:21.668 GMT-03:00-0300 1 TCP/IP Controller Plugin.Transmitter pool thread .CybTargetHandlerChannel.a[:617] - Error sending message to MANAGER:
cybermation.library.communications.CybConversationException: Error sending message: NAK
at cybermation.library.communications.protocol.CybCommunicationProtocolDynamic.sendMessage(CybCommunicationProtocolDynamic.java:994)

 

 

Environment

Release : 11.5

Component : CA WORKLOAD AUTOMATION AGENT

Cause

The 11.5 version may only accept ASCII character code.

Resolution

When setting up the Agent set the Character code to ASCII.

 

E.g. In ESP