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Call to Action – Retiring non-URI Data Areas in Datacom

By Kevin Shuma

Call to Action – Retiring non-URI Data Areas in Datacom By Kevin Shuma May 2024 As part of our Datacom “Beyond Code” outreach in 2023 and 2024, I have been participating in a number of Environment Reviews with our Broadcom Datacom customer base. In the environment review process, we look at both the physical implementation based on the Datacom Directory (CXX) as well as the database processing in the Multi-User Facility (MUF). During these physical reviews, I have come across a number of sites that still have data areas that are still using non-URI record addressing for some of their data areas. Non-URI addressing uses physical location addressing ...

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Measuring CA Datacom® Symmetrical Multiprocessing and the IBM z Integrated Information Processor (zIIP)

By Kevin Shuma

Measuring CA Datacom® Symmetrical Multiprocessing and the IBM z Integrated Information Processor (zIIP) By Kevin Shuma – November 2020 In earlier posts (Introduction to CA Datacom® and the IBM z Integrated Information Processor (zIIP) and Understanding CA Datacom® Symmetrical Multiprocessing and the IBM z Integrated Information Processor (zIIP)), we discussed the delivery of the IBM zIIP processor and its exploitation in the CA Datacom Multi-User facility (MUF) using Symmetric Multiprocessing. In this post, we discuss various ways that you can collect statistics on zIIP use in the MUF. There are two basic ways to measure zIIP usage within the MUF ...

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Understanding CA Datacom® Symmetrical Multiprocessing and the IBM z Integrated Information Processor (zIIP)

By Kevin Shuma

By Kevin Shuma – October 27, 2020 In an earlier post, Introduction to CA Datacom® and the IBM z Integrated Information Processor (zIIP), we discussed the delivery of the IBM zIIP processor and its exploitation in the CA Datacom environment. In that post, we covered zIIP exploitation and its implementation through the use of the Symmetrical Multiprocessing (SMP) capabilities available in the CA Datacom Multi-User facility (MUF). In this post, we discuss in detail the use of SMP capabilities including the use of WLM SRB tasks to offload eligible database workload to zIIP processors. In the mid-1990s, CMOS technologies changed the mainframe forever by ...

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Introduction CA Datacom® and the IBM z Integrated Information Processor (zIIP)

By Sheila Miller

By Kevin Shuma – October 1, 2020 Over the last few months, we received several inquiries asking for updated information about the utilization of zIIP processors within the CA Datacom® environment. This post provides a brief history of zIIP processing in CA Datacom and updated information for the current CA Datacom Version 15.1 delivery. IBM introduced the zIIP (system Z Integrated Information Processor) in 2006. IBM hardware purchase costs for the zIIP processors are significantly lower than the corresponding charges for GP (General Purpose) processors. More importantly to the customer, zIIP processors are not included in the billable processing power, ...

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Published Knowledge Base Articles for 2017-10 / October 2017

By Don Johnson

One of our primary goals at CA Technologies is to share our knowledge freely so that you can answer your questions and solve simple problems at any hour of the day without opening a support case. Below is a monthly list of Knowledge Base articles published; we hope that you will find this helpful. If you have any questions about an article, please feel free to ask a question here in the community or open a support case so we can help you further. If you have an idea for a Knowledge Base article, let us know and we will do our best to create a useful article for you and the rest of our community. After you have read through an article, please ...

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Published Solutions for 2017-10 / October 2017

By Don Johnson

As part of our goal to make more information readily available to our clients, we are posting a list of all solutions published during a particular month. This listing will identify each solution by its product, release, and component, as well as the type of solution: Enhancement, Bug Fix, or HIPER bug fix. There is also a link to the solution so that you can review more details about it as you decide whether a solution is needed in your environment. Please let us know if you find this information useful, and also let us know how we can help you manage your systems better. Product Rel. Comp. Prob # Type PTF Date Description ...

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CA Datacom Survey is now available

By Kevin Shuma

Our Datacom team is looking forward to hearing from you and your thoughts on CA Datacom. Please take a moment and provide your feedback. The Customer Feedback survey for CA Datacom is now open and will remain available through December 3, 2017 . Your feedback will help shape the future direction of CA Datacom. Customer feedback is extremely important to us at CA Technologies and we sincerely appreciate you taking a few moments to share your thoughts. We will carefully review each survey and use its input to create action plans designed with the goal of improving the overall customer experience and value you receive from your investment in CA Technologies ...

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CA Datacom Turns 29 !

By Kevin Shuma

I wanted to take a second and thank all our Datacom friends and family for a great 29 years at CA!! You guys out there have been a big part of our Datacom family and we really appreciate y'all !! I know it doesn't seem like that long ago, but it has been 29 years since Datacom and our Datacom team joined CA in October 1988. Our CA Plano team celebrated Datacom's 29th CA birthday with a celebration today. Here are some pictures from the Datacom party on the patio!! For those of you that missed the party let me know and I will send you a slice of the cake while it lasts!! All the best, The CA Datacom team

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Knowledge Base Articles Published: September 2017

By Don Johnson

One of the primary goals of the support teams at CA Technologies is to make knowledge available to our clients, so that they can get the answers to their questions and simple problems at any hour of the day, without needing to open a support case. We will post here a list of the articles published during a given month, and hope that you will find this helpful. If you have any questions on an article, please feel free to ask a question here in the community or open a support case for us to help you further. If you have an idea for a Knowledge Base article, let us know and we will do our best to create a useful article for you and the rest of our community. ...

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What would you like to know?

By Don Johnson

The number of Knowledge Base articles that we create for CA Datacom products is growing every day, and the number of our customers that are searching for these articles instead of opening cases is also increasing. However, we know that some of you have some favorite topics, and would like to know more about them. Others may be newer customers and don't have the experience you would like. The question we want to ask you is this: "What would you like to know more about with your CA Datacom products, or what kind of Knowledge Base articles would you like to see?" Please respond to this blog post with your ideas, and we will try to meet your requests! If ...

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Knowledge Base articles for 2017-04 / April 2017

By Don Johnson

One of the primary goals of the support teams at CA Technologies is to make knowledge available to our clients, so that they can get the answers to their questions and simple problems at any hour of the day, without needing to open a support case. To that end, our support teams are publishing new articles every week, yet, many of our clients would probably be interested in these new articles without having to wait until a problem occurs and then having to search for an answer. We will post here a list of the articles published during the month, and hope that you will find this helpful. If you have any questions on an article, please feel free to ask a question ...

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Knowledge Base articles for 2017-03 / March 2017

By Don Johnson

One of the primary goals of the support teams at CA Technologies is to make knowledge available to our clients, so that they can get the answers to their questions and simple problems at any hour of the day, without needing to open a support case. To that end, our support teams are publishing new articles every week, yet, many of our clients would probably be interested in these new articles without having to wait until a problem occurs and then having to search for an answer. We will post here a list of the articles published during the month, and hope that you will find this helpful. If you have any questions on an article, please feel free to ask a question ...

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Knowledge Base articles for 2017-02 / February 2017

By Don Johnson

One of the primary goals of the support teams at CA Technologies is to make knowledge available to our clients, so that they can get the answers to their questions and simple problems at any hour of the day, without needing to open a support case. To that end, our support teams are publishing new articles every week, yet, many of our clients would probably be interested in these new articles without having to wait until a problem occurs and then having to search for an answer. We will post here a list of the articles published during the month, and hope that you will find this helpful. If you have any questions on an article, please feel free to ask a question ...

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Knowledge Base articles for 2017-01 / January 2017

By Don Johnson

One of the primary goals of the support teams at CA Technologies is to make knowledge available to our clients, so that they can get the answers to their questions and simple problems at any hour of the day, without needing to open a support case. To that end, our support teams are publishing new articles every week, yet, many of our clients would probably be interested in these new articles without having to wait until a problem occurs and then having to search for an answer. We will post here a list of the articles published during the month, and hope that you will find this helpful. If you have any questions on an article, please feel free to ask a question ...

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Improving your CA Datacom Customer Experience

By Don Johnson

One of our goals at CA Technologies is to make your experiences better with our products. We are currently working to improve the process for how our customers and partners get their problems and questions resolved more quickly and easily at any hour of the day and at their own convenience. Whether you have opened many support cases or few, or even if you have been fortunate enough to have never opened one case, we want to help you with your questions. We hope that the information in this post will show you how to get the answers you need quickly, reducing interruptions and stalled times in your projects, and shortening any unplanned outages in your operational ...

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CA Reference Guide for DB2 12 for z/OS. Get your copy today!

By Stefan Kochishan

NOW AVAILABLE for immediate download! New CA Reference Guide for DB2 12 for z/OS!! Get your copy today! CA is a proud Gold Sponsor of the IDUG NA Technical Conference in Anaheim, CA. So to celebrate the conference we are announcing general availability of this popular technical reference guide! It is a rich technical resource for DB2 for z/OS database management professionals. This no-cost guide provides instant access to DB2 for z/OS catalog information, such as system commands, utility syntax, catalog tables and much more. Click to download: CA Reference Guide for DB2 12 for z/OS Need a Reference Guide for DB2 ...

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No Monkeys Here!!!

By Su Brude

Attention CTC 2016 Attendees. It has come to my attention that my post conference survey on SurveyMonkey that I sent out the week following the conference did not make it into many of your inboxes. For those of you that did get the survey and completed it, thank you! For others, we would still appreciate your feedback. Below is the information that I sent out last month. Thank you all for attending the CADRE Technical Conference last week. I apologize for not holding back the weather until you all got back to your home, my weather powers just ran out. Just a few follow up items for you. Survey First off, we want to hear from you. At ...

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Share Your Expertise: CA World '16 "Call for Speakers" Now Open

By Lenn Thompson

Share your experience. Be the teacher. Enhance your resume. CA World is the best opportunity to learn more about CA software and partner solutions that fuel digital transformations. And we want you to be a part of it. The Call for Speakers is now open, and we look forward to receiving your amazing session ideas specifically stories about transformative projects, compelling use cases, and best practices that aim to educate and empower our customers in succeeding in the application economy. We're looking for ideas covering many of CA's solution areas -- learn more and submit your topic today. Make sure that you hear about all of the latest ...

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Community Member Spotlight - Umberto Comotti [Apr. 2016]

By Chris_Stallone

Once a month we'll shine our virtual spotlight on one of the CA Datacom community's members. It's just a fun, easy way for us to get to know one another a little bit beyond our work-related interactions here on the site. This month, we're featuring Umberto_Comotti . Location: Milan - Italy Current Gig: Principal Support Engineer at CA Technologies One word that describes how you work: Collaborative How do you use CA Communities and any suggestions for others? CA Communities can help members to keep themselves abreast of latest product developments and to find tips and best practices. Mac or PC? PC Mobile Device? ...

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