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CA Advisor: Mainframe Newsletter

October 2009

In a Business Environment Where Nothing Stays Still, Complacency is Exceptionally Dangerous

Chris O’Malley, EVP and GM, CA Mainframe Business Unit

That’s why – now more than ever – CA is aggressively innovating mainframe management. With our Mainframe 2.0 initiative, we are directly addressing the changes you face as your companies become increasingly IT-dependent, as the economy lurches its way out of a major recession, and as time robs you of your senior mainframe experts. So, as a CA customer, you can be sure that you have the tools you need to extend the life of your mainframe investments and get even more business value out of those investments for years to come.

Our entire Mainframe Business Unit is committed to fully understanding your needs – and to ensuring that those needs drive everything we do.

Please feel free to contact your account representative or our technical support group if there is ever any technical or operational challenge that you believe we are not addressing as fully as we should. We welcome your insight.

— Chris O’Malley, EVP and GM, CA Mainframe Business Unit

Watch the replay of Chris O’Malley’s Keynote at SHARE in Denver.
 
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CA Vtape™ Virtual Tape System: A Cost-Saving Alternative to Expensive Hardware-Based Products

Conversations with customers suggest that Oracle’s acquisition of SUN is causing concern among storage managers about the long-term value of their storage hardware. CA Vtape Virtual Tape System may alleviate those concerns.
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CA Mainframe Software Manager: Boost Productivity, Simplify Operations, and Accelerate Time-to-Benefit

How quickly can you install CA products with CA MSM? CA conducted tests to see how quickly both mainframe experts and mainframe novices could complete Electronic Software Delivery (ESD) installs with CA MSM. This article summarizes the results of these tests for ten of our products.
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Solving the Data Transport Security and Efficiency Problem

CA XCOM™ Data Transport® is designed to transfer high volumes of data, reports, and jobs across heterogeneous platforms with high levels of security by providing comprehensive encryption technologies coupled with built-in privacy features.
 

Also in this issue:

Simplify Large-Scale Mainframe Linux Deployment

CA has enhanced CA VM:Secure® and CA VM:Director® to simplify the process of provisioning mainframe Linux virtual guests under z/VM using a single simple command.

New Releases of CA ACF2™ and CA Top Secret® Ease Administration and Reporting for Compliance and Auditing

New releases (r14) of CA ACF2 and CA Top Secret address critical security and compliance challenges by providing comprehensive security features for your mainframe information assets.

CA Customers Bank on CA Concurrent Action Processing in CA Endevor® Software Change Manager r12

CA customers are taking advantage of the Concurrent Action Processing feature in CA Endevor® Software Change Manager (CA Endevor SCM) r12 to significantly reduce the elapsed processing time required for software maintenance.

Making CA Easytrieve® Even Easier

CA has just delivered CA Easytrieve Simplified Design System (CA Easytrieve SDS), an Eclipse-based component that features a GUI report painter, enhanced editor with auto-completion and syntax-checking and remote job submission.

CA Gen r8 Extends SOA and Web Application Delivery

In October CA Gen r8 is scheduled to begin beta testing more than 75 user-requested enhancements to enable the delivery of sophisticated web applications, improve performance of generated applications and increase developer productivity.

What's On Your Mind: Tech Support Q&A

Ronald Torre, Vice President of Technical Support for CA, answers some of the most frequently asked questions received recently.


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