CA launches new mainframe database solutions  

MUMBAI: 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 vice president at CA, said, "CA is strongly committed to
extending and enhancing 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 available now 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.



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