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Computer Associates has announced new releases of its CA-IDMS and CA-Datacom
mainframe database management systems. It enables customers to support
high-volume processing requirements including online transactions, batch job
activity, and transactions from diverse distributed-platform applications.
Mark Combs, Senior VP at CA, said, “CA is strongly committed to exlend and
enhance CA-IDMS and CA-Datacom so that our customers can successfully address
today's complex, multi-platform application challenges.”
The latest CA-IDMS release features an express reorg utility for z/OS that
improves system availability by reducing scheduled downtime. It also provides
enhanced compliance and audit reporting capabilities that enable organizations
to track database activity by user ID. Beta test users include BT, a worldwide
communications solutions provider.
Alan Fretten, COO for Mainframe Technical Services at BT, said, “BT uses
CA-IDMS to support its 12 terabyte Customer Service System (CSS) database that
processes more than 240 million customer billing, order processing and fault
reporting transactions daily for more 20 million business and residential
customers.”
“The new express reorg utility in CA-IDMS r16 SP4 reduces database
reorganization time, helping us continue to deliver the 24x7 availability that
CSS requires,” he added. The latest CA-Datacom supports 24x7 availability with
new capabilities such as online data reorganization, online index
defragmentation, uninterrupted service during scheduled IPLs, and an automated
transition to an available “shadow” CA-Datacom environment if a system
failure occurs. It features such as parallel index queue processing and variable
log block optimizations deliver significant performance gains to meet customer
demands for increased workloads.
CA-Datacom r11.2 is now available and CA-IDMS r16 SP4 will be available later
this month. Both products run in IBM z/OS and z/VSE environments. CA-IDMS also
runs in IBM z/VM and Siemens Fujitsu BS2000/OSD environments.