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NEW: CA Database Analyzer™ for Db2 for z/OS Enhanced with Capture Threshold Values for Action Procedures

By Jakub Hofman posted 2 days ago
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CA Database Analyzer now gives you the ability to capture the threshold (condition) values of database objects that are selected for actions based on the conditions in action procedures tied to an extract procedure with Real Time Object Selection (RTOS). Previously, you could only capture threshold values for objects selected by extract procedures. Now, you can capture threshold values that trigger action procedures tied to an extract procedure. You can generate a CTV report of the condition values that are met by your RTOS extract procedures and the condition values that are met by action procedures tied to extract procedures. You can then tune your selection ...
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Clarity Customer Newsletter (Feb. 2021)

By Alf Abuhajleh posted 6 days ago
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Explore Clarity Teams Live Webcast March 25 at 1 pm ET Working as a team is critical to any business success. Learn more about working with teams in Clarity with Mary Lichtenauer, Broadcom Solutions Engineer and Clarity expert, as she takes us through the business benefits. What's New in Clarity 15.9.1 Wow, another year has passed and 2021 is full of lots of enhancements. We changed our release cadence to February, May, August and November. Join us and learn what’s new! Linda's Corner: Resource Management This time Linda shows us how to get the right people on the right job. Juggling labor and non-labor resources can be challenging, so Linda takes ...
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Joining the Broadcom Mainframe Community!

By Michael Daubman posted 9 days ago
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Hello Community!  I would like to briefly take an opportunity to introduce myself to the broader Broadcom Mainframe community.  My name is Michael Daubman and I’ve just joined the Broadcom facility at the very end of 2020.  I’ve joined the team a senior manager of Product Management in the Mainframe division.  The team I’m a part of includes product owners for a variety of core mainframe products including CA1, CA7, IDMS, Datacom, CA GEN, Easytrieve, MICS, XCOM and number of other products that enterprises large and small rely on.   With 2021 well underway, I wanted to take a moment to talk through some of the goals and themes we’re embracing as a ...
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Take Your Testing to the Next Level: A Capability Model for Model-based Testing using Agile Requirements Designer by Shamim Ahmed

By Caitlin Lam posted 13 days ago
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Blog by Shamim Ahmed , CTO for DevOps Solutions, Broadcom Model-based testing (or MBT) has recently emerged as a popular approach to transforming and optimizing application testing.  MBT offers significant benefits such as improvement of test coverage, reduction of testing effort and improvement of quality.  MBT includes a rich variety of techniques and capabilities that may appear overwhelming to initial adopters. My customers often ask me how to get started with the basics of MBT and how to gradually improve their maturity and capabilities.  I am not a big fan of “maturity models”, I like “capability models” instead. This capability ...
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NEW: CA Fast Unload® for DB2 for z/OS Supports zIIP for Unload Data from Versioned Tables

By Jakub Hofman posted 19 days ago
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CA Fast Unload® for DB2 for z/OS now supports the use of the IBM System z Integrated Information Processor (zIIP) when you unload data from versioned tables. Previously, zIIP support was not available for unloads from rows in multiple tablespace versions. Now, zIIP support is provided for versioned tables. Offloading zIIP-eligible workloads to zIIP processors can reduce the processing load on your general CPUs.   zIIP functionality is enabled by default. Use the zIIP keyword in the SYSIN DD or in hlq .CDBAPARM(PFU) to control zIIP processing. PFT: LU00216
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CA Client Automation - Patch Management - Published Extended support and Office Rollups for February 2021(v2102.00)

By Praveen Kumar Gudupalli posted 19 days ago
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On behalf of CA Technologies, a Broadcom Company, we are pleased to notify you that rollups for February, 2021 is now available.   The following rollups have been published: Rollups: CA - Microsoft OS Extended Support Update - IntelliRollup v2102.00 CA - Office 32Bit - Security IntelliRollup v2102.00 CA - Office 64Bit - Security IntelliRollup v2102.00   These items will be available for acceptance in your Patch Manager GUI after the next successful run of the “Software Contents Download Job”. If you have any questions or require assistance, contact CA Customer Care online at https://www.broadcom.com/support/software/contact Thank you, ...
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CA Client Automation - Patch Management - Published Patch Me Rollup for February, 2021(v2102.00)

By Praveen Kumar Gudupalli posted 23 days ago
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On behalf of CA Technologies, a Broadcom Company, we are pleased to notify you that rollups for February, 2021 is now available.   The following rollups have been published: Rollups: CA - Patch Me - Security IntelliRollup v2102.00 These items will be available for acceptance in your Patch Manager GUI after the next successful run of the “Software Contents Download Job”. If you have any questions or require assistance, contact CA Customer Care online at https://www.broadcom.com/support/software/contact Thank you, The Patch Management Content Team.
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CA Client Automation - Patch Management - Published Individual Patches for February, 2021

By Praveen Kumar Gudupalli posted 25 days ago
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On behalf of CA Technologies, a Broadcom Company, we are pleased to notify you that individual patches for February, 2021 is now available.   The following Individual patches have been published: Individual Patches: 2021-02 Security Only Update - Windows8.1-KB4601349-x86 2021-02 Security Monthly Quality Rollup - Windows8.1-KB4601384-x86 2021-02 Net Framework - windows8.1-KB4601092-x86-ndp48 2021-02 Net Framework - windows8.1-KB4601094-x86 2021-02 Security Only Update - Windows8.1-KB4601349-x64 2021-02 Security Monthly Quality Rollup - Windows8.1-KB4601384-x64 2021-02 Net Framework - windows8.1-KB4601092-x64-ndp48 2021-02 Net Framework ...
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NEW: Support for LISTDEF in RUNSTATS Action JCL

By Jakub Hofman posted 26 days ago
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Support for LISTDEF in RUNSTATS Action CA Database Analyzer™ for DB2 for z/OS now supports the use of LISTDEF to execute RUNSTATS against a list of objects in one step. The generated action JCL contains a LIST keyword followed by the LISTDEF statement for each RUNSTATS control statement. A new model member (MJULDRS) and new automatic symbolics are provided to create action JCL to execute RUNSTATS on the objects defined in a LISTDEF. You can use LISTDEF to allow for greater concurrency during executions. To take advantage of this feature, specify U (Update) in the Job Generation Parms field on the Build Extract Procedures panel, then specify Y (Yes) in the Order ...
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New Security Capability introduced in Symantec Directory 14.1 SP2

By Madhusudhan Yoganath posted 26 days ago
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https://community.broadcom.com/enterprisesoftware/blogs/yogma01/2021/02/09/new-security-capability-in-symantec-directory
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New Security Capability introduced in Symantec Directory 14.1 SP2

By Madhusudhan Yoganath posted 26 days ago
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Recon is almost always the first step hackers, resort to understand the various ways they can hack their target organization.  LDAP reconnaissance is a type of internal recon technique used to discover users, groups and other critical information. Adversaries can use LDAP queries mostly using modern tools or directly, to increase their knowledge of the environment, which can help them find targets and plan the next stages of their attack. It is important that we mitigate the attacks by providing maximum security possible in order to make it harder for hacker’s recon technique to uncover more about the target’s environment. In the latest 14.1 SP2 release ...
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Clarity Customer Newsletter (Jan. 2021)

By Alf Abuhajleh posted 27 days ago
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Clarity Quick Tips for Big Impact Text messaging was the unplanned killer app for the phone because it was simple and removed objective friction. Come learn what surprisingly simple Clarity capabilities and efforts are tipping user adoption and data accuracy from sporadic and forced to viral value. Linda's Corner: Project Financials Today, Linda shows us how Clarity supports the creation of powerful budgets and cost plans, with different views for different users. Linda also explains how to analyze actual expenditures from macro-level summaries to individual transactions. Get Your Clarity Administrator Badge Gain a foundational badge by exhibiting ...
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Securing Integration to DX Operational Intelligence with New Service Account

By Ashley George posted 30 days ago
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In today’s large, complex, and hybrid IT landscapes, data security is one of the foremost concerns for IT leaders. At the same time, an equally important objective is to make the experience for internal users seamless for better adoption and efficiency. As a result, federated login has become the preferred choice among many enterprises so that their internal users have one-point access to disparate systems that they use, manage or monitor. In order to securely & seamlessly integrate   DX Operations Intelligence   with any SaaS or On-premises products within your SSO enabled environments, DX Operational Intelligence now comes with a built-in Service Account. ...
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Layer 7 Office hours

By Aran White posted 02-03-2021
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We are happy to announce the start of a new regular customer event for our Layer7 (API Management customer) Layer7 Office hours is no agenda session where customers and partners can ask questions in a virtual call where experts will be there to answer queries. As well as the Broadcom employees attending the session to answer the questions we are also keen to encourage the group to share their findings with each other. The first 3 sessions will be held on the following dates. February 18th March 18th April 15th We will be asking attendees to register for the event so please use the following link  https://symantec.broadcom.com/apim-office-hours-feb2021 ...
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Layer7 Work in Progress Update - PI25

By Gregory Thompson posted 02-03-2021
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As part of our effort to keep our customers up to date and get continuous feedback, we will begin providing updates on our development work in progress for each Program Increment (known as a "PI") here in the Layer7 Community. We invite you to provide feedback by commenting on this post below. The key capabilities currently being worked on in this PI (PI25) are: API Gateway Release of API Gateway 10.0 CR3 is currently planned for early March and will include TLS1.3, HSM Partition Key Support, Compressed Kerberos Tickets, and more. See the release notes for a complete list once CR3 is available: https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/ca-enterprise-software/layer7-api-management/api-gateway/10-0/release-notes/new-features-and-enhancements.html  ...
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NEW: CA Fast Unload® for DB2 for z/OS Supports zIIP for Unload from Image Copies

By Jakub Hofman posted 01-27-2021
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CA Fast Unload® for DB2 for z/OS now supports the use of the IBM System z Integrated Information Processor (zIIP) when you unload data from image copies. Previously, zIIP support was only available for INPUT-FORMAT TABLE. Now, zIIP support is provided for all INPUT-FORMAT values. Offloading zIIP-eligible workloads to zIIP processors can reduce the processing load on your general CPUs. We yielded good performance gains in controlled lab environment, however your results may vary based on many factors such as z/OS environment, application workload and others. zIIP functionality is enabled by default. Use the zIIP keyword in the SYSIN DD or in hlq.CDBAPARM(PFU) ...
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Nolio Release Automation v6.7.3 is now available

By Dheeraj Pershad posted 01-26-2021
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On behalf of CA Technologies, a Broadcom Company, we appreciate your business and the opportunity to provide you with high-quality, innovative software and services.  As part of our ongoing commitment to customer success, we regularly release updated versions of our products. Today, we are pleased to announce that Nolio Release Automation v6.7.3 is now available.  To ensure we focus on continuous delivery of value to our customers and to make it easy for our customers to adopt new features of our product, starting v6.7.3, we are looking at including key enhancements as part of our cumulative releases so that you get benefit of latest features on Nolio ...
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New Forrester Consulting TEI Study confirms the value of AIOps from Broadcom

By Ashley George posted 01-22-2021
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New Forrester Consulting TEI Study confirms the value of AIOps from Broadcom. Organizations achieve 89% ROI, payback in less than a year, and benefit by increasing the effectiveness of IT professionals, automating manual processes, and reducing costs of redundant monitoring tools. Benefits also include improved uptime resulting in enhanced customer experience and increased confidence in performance measurements across the IT stack. Check out the report to learn more and be sure to join us on February 18th  where guest speakers Rich Lane, Sr. Analyst, Forrester Research, and Mark Lauritano, Consultant, Forrester Consulting will discuss the findings.  ...
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Automic Automation and Serverless Computing

By Tobias Stanzel posted 01-19-2021
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What is Serverless Computing? Serverless computing is a cloud computing execution model in which the cloud provider allocates machine resources on-demand, managing the servers on behalf of their customers—allowing developers to focus their time and efforts on the business logic for their applications and processes. Some of the core attributes that distinguish the serverless model are: The model requires no management or operation of infrastructure. It executes code on-demand, and on a per-request basis  Scales seamlessly with the number of requests. Pay only for consumed resources, never paying for idle capacity. Enables a polyglot ...
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CA Harvest SCM v14.0.1 Cumulative Patch - Released

By Vijaya Kumar Dasari posted 01-19-2021
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On behalf of CA Technologies, a Broadcom Company, we appreciate your business and the opportunity to provide you with high-quality, innovative software and services. As part of our ongoing commitment to customer success, we regularly release updated versions of our products. Today, we are pleased to announce that CA Harvest SCM v14.0.1 Cumulative Patch (Build 410) is now available. The patch has been successfully published and available for download from our support site ( https://support.broadcom.com/ ) with Fix number #  99111006 . As part of the continuous delivery model, this build includes some key enhancements based on our customers ...
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