Cancel Recursive at Top Workflow without Cancel Permission breaks Workflow Execution

Products

• CA Automic Workload Automation - Automation Engine

Issue/Introduction

When a user without "Cancel" permission (authorization “C” not granted) applied “Cancel Recursive” at a Top Level Workflow, the Workflow execution breaks.


Steps to reproduce:

• Login as a user who has the "Cancel" permission not set
• Run a Workfow with nested workflows in it
• Apply “Cancel (recursive)” action at the Top Workflow
• The user gets the message “'<Workflow name>': Access denied” => This is expected
• Observer all waiting Tasks in the Workflow (and in all child Workflows) get the flag “Canceling A“ => These Tasks will now be stuck in “Waiting for predecessor”.

 

Environment

Affected Versions: 

Automic Workload Automation 12.3.2 and earlier
Automic Workload Automation 12.2.5 and earlier
Automic Workload Automation 12.1.8 and earlier

 

Affected Component:

Automation Engine

Resolution

This has been confirmed to be a Bug and will be fixed with the following releases:

Automic Workload Automation 12.3.3  - available
Automic Workload Automation 12.2.6 
Automic Workload Automation 12.1.9 


currently there's no known Workaround.