CA Maintenance Product Upgrade Service Customer Overview July 2009.

CA Maintenance Product Upgrade Service

Customer Overview

July 2009

CA Maintenance Product Upgrade Service(CA MPS)

> Introduction

> What is the CA Maintenance Product Upgrade Service?

Note new name (CA MPS)

> CA MPS Features

> CA MPS Offerings

> CA MPS Package Deliverables

> CA MPS Supported Products

> Pre-Requisites and Pricing

> CA MPS Contacts

> Q and A

Did you know that you can help your programming staff ….

Improve productivity by enabling them to unify and simplify tasks associated with CA

mainframe software maintenance by providing more time for performance and tuning activities to gain

greater benefits from CA products

Improve system migration turnaround by reducing the preparation work associated with creating a migration

test environment

Improve system integrity by ensuring all system and CA product maintenance requirements are

addressed during migration preparation

Migrate to the newest release level of a CA product while simultaneously attaining specific z/OS release support

Improve Direct Access Storage Device utilization by using the re-blocking options during product unloads

CA Maintenance Product Upgrade Service (CA MPS)

CA MPS – formerly known as CA MPS New name meets CA naming conventions

A powerful offering that delivers the most current maintenance levels of CA z/OS products in a pre-installed format

CA MPS provides customized maintenance deliveries for CA mainframe

products

provides a structured process that combines CA best practices, methodologies and expertise to ensure all software components operate effectively and efficiently

reduces the time it takes to perform installation and maintenance activities, so that you can provide your staff with more time to focus on key business initiatives

Features

> Support for the most current GA IBM z/OS releases

> Multiple media types

> Two formats for CA MPS delivery: IBM DFSMSDSS or IBM Basic Utilities

> Option to select desired SMP/E CSI type

> Ability to create a Merged Global Zone environment

with provided dialogs

create a Merged Target/Distribution Zone environment with provided dialogs

delete products from your Merged environments

CA MPS Offerings

> CA MPS Install Provides fully maintained products in a

post-installation state

> Full CA MPS Provides fully maintained products in a

post-installation state & the ability to unload and generate maintenance only

> CA MPS Maintenance Provides only the data sets required to

maintain products installed from a previous CA MPS delivery

> Combined CA MPS Combines CA MPS Maintenance and CA

MPS Install into a single delivery

CA MPS Package Deliverables

> Easy-to-use ISPF dialogs

> Consolidated cart containing pre-selected CA z/OS products Distribution schedule may follow IBM operating system release

dates

> All products delivered via CA MPS come pre-installed With all associated product options Fully maintained and ready for site specific customization

> You may choose one of several CA MPS delivery options

> Documentation PDS library for each individual product

> PDS library that contains all the APAR/PTF source for each product

Products supported by CA MPS

CA DATACOM CA DATACOM SERVER CA DATACOM/AD CA DATAMACS/II FLAT CA DATAMACS/II DATACOM CA DATAMACS/II IDMS• CA DATAMACS/II IMS• CA DATABASE MANAGEMENT

SOLUTIONS FOR DB2 FOR z/OS• CA DATABASE MANAGEMENT

SOLUTIONS FOR IMS FOR z/OS• CA DATE SIMULATOR• CA DELIVER• CA DISK• CA DISK/USS• CA DISPATCH• CA DRAS• CA EARL• CA EASYTRIEVE/PLUS• CA EASYTRIEVE/PLUS REPORT

TOOLKIT

CA ACF2 CA ACF2CLEAN CA AION CA ALCHEMIST CA ALLOCATE CA APAS/INSIGHT CA APCDDS CA APCDOC CA ASM2 CA ASTEX CA AUDITOR CA AUTOSYS/CONNECT CA BALANCING CA BUNDL CA CMDB Connector for z/OS CA CICSORT CA COMPRESS CA COMPRESS FOR IMS CA COMMON PRODUCT SERVICES CA COMMON SERVICES CA CONNECT CA DADSPLUS

• CA ESP WORKLOAD MGR• CA EZ/ESP CICS• CA EZ/ESP TSO• CA EZ/IQ CICS• CA EZ/KEY TSO• CA EZT/ONLINE CICS• CA EZT/ONLINE TSO• CA ENDEVOR• CA FILE MASTER FOR IMS• CA FILE MASTER PLUS• CA FILESAVE RCS• CA GENER/OL• CA GEN HE• CA GEN IT• CA IDEAL• CA IDMS• CA INTERTEST BATCH• CA INTERTEST CICS• CA INFOSESSION• CA IPC• CA ISM

•

Products supported by CA MPS (continued*)

• CA PANEXEC• CA PAN/SQL DATACOM• CA PAN/SQL DB2• CA PAN/SQL IDMS• CA PAN/SQL ORACLE• CA PANVALET• CA PDSMAN• CA PLEU• CA PMO• CA QUICK FETCH• CA RACFCLEAN• CA RAMIS• CA REMOTE CONSOLE• CA REPOSITORY• CA ROSCOE• CA SCHEDULER• CA SHAREOPTION/5• CA SMF Director• CA SMR• CA SOLVE• CA SOLVE CENTRAL SD• CA SOLVE ACCESS

• CA SORT• CA SPACEMAN• CA SPOOL• CA STX• CA SYMDUMP/BATCH• CA SYMDUMP/CICS• CA SYMDUMP/SYSTEM• CA SYSVIEW• CA TAPE ENCRYPTION• CA TCPACCESS• CA TCPACCESS FTP• CA TCPACCESS X.25• CA TELEVIEW• CA TELON• CA TLMS• CA TLMS/COPYCAT• CA TOP SECRET• CA TOP SECRET DB2• CA TPX• CA TSO/MON• CA TSOPLUS• CA TSSCLEAN

• CA JARS/CICS• CA JARS/MVS• CA JARS/SMF• CA JCLCHECK• CA JCLCHECK COMMON

COMPONENT • CA JMR• CA JOBTRAC• CA LIBRARIAN• CA MF NETWORK MGMT• CA MAX• CA META/COBOL• CA MIGRATE/COBOL• CA MIM• CA NETCOMPRESS• CA NETMAN• CA OPERA• CA OPS/MVS • CA OPTIMIZER• CA OPTIMIZER II• CA PANAPT• CA PANAUDIT

Products supported by CA MPS (continued*)

• CA VANTAGE• CA VANTGMI• CA VERIFY• CA VERIFY/EEO• CA VIEW• CA VIEWPPS• CA VISION:ASSESS• CA VISION:EXCEL• CA VISION:REDOCUMENT• CA VISION:RESULTS• CA VISION:SIXTY• CA VTAPE• CA XCOM• CA 1• CA 1/COPYCAT• CA 7• CA 7/SMART CONSOLE• CA 11 •The list is continually being updated

with new mainframe products. Please talk with your CA Account Manager to

inquire about a product not listed here.

Pre-Requisites and Pricing

> IBM Basic Utility format GIMSMP 1.8.0 or later

ISPF 4.1.0 or later

z/OS 1.3 or above

> DFSMSDSS format GIMSMP 1.8.0 or later

ISPF 4.1.0 or later

ADRDSSU V1R30 or later

z/OS 1.3 or above

> $ Fixed Fee per cart Delivery

> $ Multiple CA MPS Deliveries per year

How do you get started?

1. Your CA Account Team / Business Manager will introduce the CA MPS offering to you and will invite you to participate

2. Your CA Business Manager will work with you to collect the required information and will help to finalize any pricing and contractual agreements

3. Upon contract signature, you will need to initiate the generation of your CA MPS Package by logging an issue by phone or CA Support Online

4. The CA MPS Team will contact you within 2 weeks of when you logged your issue to let you know when you will receive your CA MPS package delivery

Your CA MPS Contacts

> Primary contacts: Your CA Account Team Including CA Business Manager and CA SAM Director

> Email the CA MPS team at [email protected]

> Customer Support via CA Support Online www.support.ca.com

Questions?