CA today announced its plan to release a wide range of enhancements to its industry-leading mainframe management software for the z/OS, z/VSE, and z/VM platforms, empowering customers to derive optimum business value from their investments in mainframe infrastructure.
The enhancements, which are currently available or planned for short-term release, underscore CA's ongoing commitment to meeting the evolving needs of its global customers, who are becoming increasingly dependent on their mainframes to deliver highly reliable processing-intensive IT services to internal and external constituencies.
By taking advantage of CA's enhanced solutions, IT organisations can better scale their service delivery capabilities, meet end-users' performance expectations, maintain 24x7 availability, and address compliance requirements within their existing resource constraints.
"The mainframe is undergoing a major renaissance as IT decision-makers recognise how its cost-effective and energy-efficient scalability, reliability and security make it the ideal platform to satisfy intensive business requirements," said Andrea Lodolo, CA Manager Technical Sales, South Africa. "Our latest enhancements demonstrate that CA continues to deliver the solutions necessary to exploit the mainframe's full economic potential."
The current and planned product enhancements include:
Extended z/OS management
* CA SymDump Batch r8 - integrates with CA Endevor Software Change Manager to help customers more quickly identify and resolve application dumps to better safeguard system stability and reliability.
* CA Spool r11.5 - includes IPv6 support and new drivers for remote printing support-as well as IBM z/OS C/C++ run time compiler support, enabling better use of new IBM hardware features
* CA Database Management r11.5 SP2 for DB2 for z/OS - gives customers greater visibility into and control over their DB2 for z/OS database environments through new metrics, statistics for zIIP usage and other enhancements.
* CADatacomr11 SP4 - supports 24x7 data requirements by enabling near real-time replication of data with very minimal overhead - while also supporting data access and business logic in single high-performing SQL procedures."
* CA Endevor SCM r12 SP1 - features a simplified installation process and helps organisations better control the development-and-release process.
* CA ACF2 r12 and CA Top Secret r12 SP2 - allow additional security attributes to be shared with distributed LDAP directories, and include compliance-reporting enhancements.
Simplified z/VSE tape management
* CA Dynam for z/VSE 7.1 - simplifies tape data set processing standards, including support for IBM's new hardware-based tape encryption, automation of encrypted tape processing, and automated ejection of tapes from robotic devices at close of file.
Enhanced z/VM directory management
* CA VM:Secure r2.8 SP1 and CA VM:Director r2.8 SP1 - can be called by IBM Director and other Linux provisioning products for defining Linux guests, allocating storage to the guests, and performing other z/VM directory administration tasks.
The products will be made available under CA's flexible licensing options, including traditional MIPS pricing. They also will be available under industry-standard MSUs for z/OS and z/VSE products.
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