AutoSys 12.0 upgrade script fails with a Java Out of Memory error

Products

• CA Workload Automation AE - Business Agents (AutoSys)
• CA Workload Automation AE - System Agent (AutoSys)
• CA Workload Automation AE - Scheduler (AutoSys)
• Workload Automation Agent
• CA Workload Automation AE

Issue/Introduction

AutoSys 12.0 upgrade script fails with a "java/lang/OutOfMemoryError" during the EEM validation steps.

Environment

mRelease : 12.0

Component : AutoSys Workload Automation

Cause

This issue can occur where the EEM server has a very large number of policies. The InstallAnywhere installer runs out of Memory Heap during validation.
By default it runs with 134m of Max Memory Heap.

Resolution

The installer uses InstallAnywhere which provides the option to set Java Max Memory on the command line when executing the installer. 

Example:

./install.bin -jvmxmx 250m

Set this is to a higher value to avoid the OutOfMemory error.

Additional Information

Broadcom reproduced the issue internally with 5000+ policies in EEM. 

It was sufficient to set the java max memory to 200m in that test case to overcome the out of memory error.