CA announces same-day support for z/OS Release 1.4

Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA) today announced first-day support for IBM`s z/OS Release 1.4, the strategic operating system for IBM mainframes, as it has for each preceding z/OS release. Concurrently, CA is delivering first-day support for z/OS.e Release 1.4, the new-workload operating system for the eServer zSeries 800 hardware.

CA`s solutions for z/OS and z/OS.e 1.4 include a broad portfolio of management software across its industry-leading brands: Unicenter (infrastructure management), eTrust (security management), BrightStor (storage management), Advantage (databases and application development), and AllFusion (change and configuration management). Compatibility charts for solution readiness are available for z/OS 1.4 at http://ca.com/products/zos/ and for z/OS.e 1.4 at http://www.ca.com/products/zos_e/.

Many thousands of customers, who depend on CA solutions for mission-critical infrastructure and information management, are planning to migrate from OS/390 to z/OS 1.4. Other customers, already running z/OS, are planning to upgrade in order to be positioned for future growth. Because CA has continuously enhanced its solutions with new functionality and upgraded its solutions for technical currency, customers will be able to migrate to z/OS 1.4 with the assurance that CA will support their data centre operations across both 31-bit and 64-bit modes.

"Based on our experience and partnership with CA, we are confident that CA will provide the management solutions we need as we upgrade our mainframe production systems to z/OS and make use of new technology," said Brandon Persinger, director system engineering operating system services at Gap, Inc.

"CA has consistently demonstrated industry leadership and unwavering commitment to mainframe platforms for over 26 years - enabling our customers to get maximum business benefits from each successive generation of operating system and hardware technology," said Louis Grosskopf, CA senior vice-president for mainframe technologies. "With mainframes today, the driving force behind a new breed of Web-based, customer-facing applications, CA is proud to again deliver the solutions customers need to effectively and efficiently exploit mainframe technology to meet their critical business objectives."