CA Gen at CA World® 2011
CA Gen held a full presentation track at CA World 2011 last month. In addition to the CA Gen product update session, a Customer Round Table discussion and an EDGE User Group reception, there were presentations covering.

• Moving CA Gen Applications to the Web
• Attaining a Model of Health: Case Study
• Transforming IT to Exceptional Enterprise Management Services
• Modernizing Applications for Maximum Productivity
• The Final Frontier: Rationalizing Enterprise Applications
• Along the Road to CA Gen r8 - Case Study
• Real-time Performance Monitoring For CA Gen
• Migrating from Single Socket to Multi Socket Listener - Case Study
• "Genify" Your IT Assets via Transformation
• The Path to CA Gen Testing Success

Copies of these presentations can be found on the CA World 2011 Agenda Builder.

CA Endevor® SCM (Mainframe SCM) at CA World® 2011
We hope you enjoyed the recently held CA World 2011 conference. The Mainframe SCM track had sessions on CA Endevor SCM best practices, Streamline and automate with Quick Edit and Parallel Development, and How to use the new CA Endevor SCM features to your best advantage to name a few. If you would like to download a copy of a session you attended, or if you were unable to join us but are interested in viewing a session PowerPoint, the pdf files are now available on ca.com/caworld. Go to the Agenda Builder - Focus Area: Next-Generation Mainframe Track: Mainframe Software Change Management. We hope you can join us next time!

Announcing CA SymDump® Version 9.0
Version 9.0 of CA SymDump® for CICS, CA SymDump® Batch and CA SymDump® System is generally available. These products now include a graphical user interface that provides a common look and feel and consistent functionality, where applicable, across all CA SymDump products.

This graphical user interface includes:

• A plug-in deliverable for Eclipse users and a Rich Client Platform (RCP) deliverable for non-Eclipse users. Both are CA Mainframe Software Manager (CA MSM) compatible to facilitate easy installation and upgrades.
• Support for IBM Rational Developer for System z® (RDz) to help provide seamless integration between the CA SymDump graphical user interface and the RDz integrated development environment.
• Specialty views that expedite the fault analysis and resolution process, including fault repository views, source and data views, analysis views and CICS trace views.
• User-customizable views and perspectives and user-defined profiles that help you maximize your effectiveness.
• Value-add features such as the Watch View, which helps you to more quickly examine data fields and assess their role in, and relationship to, the problem.
• Incorporated product-use guidelines, including basic help with contents and index search, dynamic help and cheat sheets. This facilitates interactive training, decreases the learning curve, increases adoption rate, and helps you quickly become more effective.

The many customers who have taken advantage of the similar interface for CA InterTest™ for CICS and CA InterTest™ Batch tell us it is significantly simplifying debugging for both expert and less experienced developers. The ability to see multiple debugging windows at the same time makes it much easier to find problems. We're sure the CA SymDump interface will help users perform fault analysis tasks more quickly and easily. So don't wait - upgrade your version today.

New CA SymDump for CICS Graphical User Interface

New CA Easytrieve® Product Coming Soon
CA Easytrieve is being ported to run under Linux on PC (Intel) platforms. This new product will be called CA Easytrieve® for Linux PC and will further expand the environments supported by Easytrieve. Watch for further announcements when this new offering is generally available.

CA Easytrieve® Roadmap Update
The CA Easytrieve product roadmap has been updated. The new version is posted here.

CA Green Books and Green Papers - providing implementation best practices and use case scenarios to assist you with optimizing CA Products and solutions in your IT environment. Available for download on CA Support Online at ca.com/greenbooks.

Various CA Gen User Groups held meetings over the last couple months. These conferences featured the latest on the new CA Gen release 8 and beyond, as well as stories from fellow CA Gen sites both locally and overseas. Watch CA Gen EDGE User Communities site for other happenings and event dates as well as for copies of slides from these various events:

• The CA Gen Swiss User Group met in Bern, Switzerland, on October 20, 2011.
• The CA Gen Austrian User Group met in Vienna on October 19, 2011.
• The Global EDGE User Group held a reception at CA World® 2011 in Las Vegas, November 14, 2011.
• The CA Gen Japanese User Group met in Tokyo on November 25, 2011.
• The EDGE APAC User Group conference was held in Canberra, Australia, on December 02, 2011.
• The Finnish EDGE User Group plans to meet in Helsinki in February 2011.
• The Danish EDGE User Group plans to meet in Copenhagen in March 2011.

The next CA Endevor® Global Community Webcast will be held on December 08, 2011, at 10:00 a.m. ET. This webcast will show how Aflac has implemented a Unix Systems Services C application in Endevor using CMEW as the interface to handle the USS long file name structure. With the improved functionality in CA Endevor R14 (they upgraded from R12 to V15), the Endevor alternate id is now able to access the USS file (as opposed to the user's id) giving Aflac improved security. Joe Bigini, Endevor Administrator at Aflac, will be presenting.

New CA Endevor® Community Members Wanted!
Don't miss the CA Endevor Membership Drive going on right now for CA Endevor users. To get this drive going, the CA Endevor Community is giving away some great prizes including an Apple iPad 2, three $100 Visa Gift Cards, and some CA Endevor Global User Community tumblers. There are 3 ways to win. Visit the CA Endevor Global User Community site on MyCA for details.

2012 CA Endevor® Global User Community Quarterly Webcast Schedule

• Tuesday, February 14, 2012
• Tuesday, May 08, 2012
• Tuesday, August 14, 2012
• Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Check the message boards often for webcast announcements and details.

CA Endevor® Global User Community

• Thursday, December 08, 2011 - Click here for details.
• Tuesday, August 09, 2011 - Recording Unavailable
• Tuesday, May 10, 2011 - Recording Available
• Tuesday, February 08, 2011 - Recording Available

CA Testing Tools

• Tuesday, December 20, 2011 - Check the message board for details.
• October 2011 Webcast - Exploring the File Master Plus Editor (Part 2 of 2)
• September 2011 Webcast - Exploring the File Master Plus Editor - Part 1
• August 2011 Webcast - Quarterly Product Review

CA Software Change Management Global User Community (CA Harvest)

• Tuesday, December 06, 2011 - Click here for details.
• Tuesday, September 20, 2011 - Recording Available
• Thursday, July 21, 2011 - Recording Available
• Tuesday, June 14, 2011 Recording Available

Life Cycle Management Global User Community (Discusses CA Harvest and Endevor®)

• Tuesday, October 11, 2011 - Recording Available
• Tuesday, July 12, 2011 - Recording Available
• Tuesday, April 12, 2011 - Recording Available

Improve Testing of CA Gen Applications using Code Coverage
Delivered on September 21, 2011, and is available as a recording.

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