Why Be Normal? New Contest From CA ERwin® - Win Prizes and Network With Your Peers
Network with your peers and win valuable prizes. The ERwin Community has thousands of active members worldwide with a rich knowledge and expertise in data modeling. With our Online Data Modeling Community, you can tap into this wealth of knowledge from colleagues around the globe. Have a question? Want to share your expertise? Join our forums or social networking sites, or post a best practice to share with others. Hey - it's not everyone who knows what Third Normal Form even means - we data modeling folks need to stick together! The Why Be Normal Contest awards prizes for joining the online community and sharing your knowledge. Why Be Normal? Start now!
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Take This Opportunity to Participate in the ERwin® Cloud Survey
We invite you, as experienced data management professionals, to respond to our CA ERwin Cloud Survey. As more organizations choose to move to the cloud, we'd like to better understand the evolving needs of your organization's data initiatives.

We like to continuously reach out to our ERwin user community for feedback; we value your opinion and recognize the loyalty. Your advice is critical to helping guide our strategic roadmap for the CA ERwin® Data Modeler. Thank you in advance for participating in the ERwin Cloud Survey! All participants will be included in a prize drawing.

Survey Link: surveymonkey.com/s/ERwinSurvey.

CA Technologies Delivers Same-Day Support for IBM® DB2 10® for z/OS
CA Technologies announced "Day One" support for IBM DB2 10 for z/OS across more than 30 products, including CA Database Management for DB2 for z/OS, CA ACF2™, CA Top Secret® security management solutions and CA Easytrieve® application reporting. This support helps customers maximize the benefits of the new DB2 release and helps provide for the integrity and security of critical organizational assets. Click here to view the full press release.

CA Mainframe Chorus for DB2 Database Management - Available Today!
Simplify and streamline your DB2 for z/OS workload management tasks, increase staff productivity and facilitate collaboration and knowledge sharing. Ground-breaking workspace and collaborative capabilities greatly improve the efficiency of experienced and novice staff and helps accelerate team competence, productivity and efficiency. You can leverage your entire IT staff so they can effectively assume mainframe responsibilities and reduce the cost and complexity of managing mission critical DB2 for z/OS workloads today, and the future.

CA Mainframe Chorus for DB2 Database Management delivers a unique user experience for DB2 for z/OS DBAs. It helps streamline and automate repetitive DBA tasks so you have more time for more strategic projects. You can easily visualize complex DB2 for z/OS relationships, proactively monitor thresholds and alerts and identify, diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks more quickly to improve performance. Plus, it provides instant access to decades of DBA experience to help accelerate knowledge and simplify mentoring to the next generation of DBA's. To view the detailed announcement, login to support.ca.com and go to the product page.

To learn more, and see how CA Mainframe Chorus can help your organization to unify IT and simplify management of complex mainframe environments for better business results, visit ca.com/chorus.

General Availability of CA Database Management Solutions r14.5 for DB2 for z/OS
The r14.5 release is now generally available. This release provides support for DB2 10 and is intended for customers who will be early adopters of DB2 10. If you will not be using DB2 10, there is no reason to upgrade to r14.5 as the support it contains for earlier DB2 releases is also included in the r14 release of the products. For details of the DB2 10 support provided in the r14.5 release, please review the Release Notes manual on support.ca.com.

End of Service of CA Database Management Solutions r12 for DB2 for z/OS
Please be informed that we are discontinuing support for CA Database Management Solutions r12 for DB2 for z/OS beginning August 31, 2011. Please login to support.ca.com to view the detailed letter.

End of Service Announcement of Database Management Solutions r11.6 for IMS for z/OS
Please be informed that we are discontinuing support for CA Database Management Solutions r11.6 for IMS for z/OS beginning July 31, 2011. This will allow our development organization to effectively focus its resources on and add value to CA Database Management Solutions r15 for IMS for z/OS. Please login to support.ca.com to view the detailed letter.

General Availability Announcement for CA Database Management for Distributed Databases r11.4 LOCA - Available via ESD ONLY - JAPANESE and FRENCH
We are pleased to announce that CA Database Management r11.4 LOCA is now available. It contains the following products:

• CA Database Command Center
• CA Fast Unload® for Distributed Databases
• CA Insight™ Database Performance Manager for Distributed Databases
• CA TSreorg™ for Distributed Databases

New features available with CA Database Management r11.4 LOCA are:

• Detailed drill down into key metrics
• Control monitoring based on IT infrastructure, business requirements and staff limitations
  • Turn on/off up to 1500+ scans out-of-box
  • Create custom scans and extend the monitoring of database environments
  • Create unique alarms, add multiple thresholds
• Structured Query Language (SQL) performance root cause analysis
• Role based feature access and viewing
• Product use auditing
• Enhanced integrations to CA eHealth® Performance Manager and CA Spectrum® Infrastructure Manager
• Integration with CA Spectrum® Service Assurance, CA Wily Introscope®, CA Spectrum® Automation Manager and CA NSM.
• The following platforms are now supported:
  • RedHat 5 32/64-bit for CA Insight DPM
    Note: SELinux mode must be set to either permissive or disabled.
  • Windows 2008 R2 64-bit for CA Insight DPM
  • Sybase 15 for Windows and AIX

We also encourage you to visit the product pages on the CA Support Online website at support.ca.com for detailed information concerning r11.4 LOCA, up-to-date support information, and the latest technical bulletins.

Gain valuable product knowledge and insight with CA Communities. Could you benefit from practical product knowledge from other CA solution users? Would you like to have insight into product roadmaps, presentations and product specific training? Visit communities.ca.com, where you will find the directory of online global user communities and regional user groups with event listings, message boards/discussion forums, document libraries and more. Joining a CA Community is as easy as logging in with your CA Support Online identification, searching for available communities, and clicking "JOIN COMMUNITY" on the respective community's home page.

5 Easy Ways to Share Your Data Model With Others
Today's Data Architect is challenged to figure out how to manage information for not only multiple database platforms, but also, multiple stakeholders. To add to their challenges, they have information stored in many cases in multiple tools, with silos of data in multiple business units and groups! Sound familiar?

CA ERwin® Data Modeler can help manage this disparate information by creating a single version of the 'truth' in a central repository and repurposing information from this repository into different formats for various audiences. Find out how, by joining us for this repeated webcast, November 18 and running every other Thursday until January 27, 2011.

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'Do More With Less' Technical Webcast Series on Demand
In this five-part webcast series on CA Database Management, we present technical topics that will help you increase productivity without increasing your costs. Whether it's a product with a new feature that you are missing, a process that will increase productivity, or a strategy that will help reduce costs, this series gives you information you need to meet today's business demands to do more with less.

Topics include:

• IFI You Don't Know, Ask!
• Do You Really Want NOT to LOG?
• RTS is Your Friend - Optimize DB2 Housekeeping
• What's New in CA Database Management r14 for IMS for z/OS
• CA Database Management r14 for DB2 for z/OS Technical Update

ca.com/lpg/database-management-webcast-series

Education's number-one priority is to help maximize your CA software investment. That is why we work with you to identify your educational needs, provide a range of flexible learning options, and outline an effective plan to meet your goals. Our latest Learning Paths are available online. Contact us today to discuss your organization or personal training needs.

CA Services helps you derive maximum benefit from your investment in CA Workload Automation solutions, deliver greater business results, and speed time to value. Our services, from implementations through optimizations, help to:

• Speed deployment and accelerate your staff learning curves
• Lower risks through the use of established best practices
• Improve alignment of your product configuration to your business's requirements
• Drive additional product value post-installation through health checks and optimizations

Click here for a full list of Services offerings.

The product roadmaps for both the CA Database Management Solutions for DB2 for z/OS (View Roadmap) and CA Database Management Solutions for IMS for z/OS (View Roadmap) have been updated.

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.

CA Insight® DPM 11.4 is now certified with Oracle Enterprise Database Edition 11g R2 on RHEL 5.5 with Dataguard and RAC. For information, go the product page on support.ca.com.