GA Announcement for Release 20.0 of the CA Database Management Solutions for DB2 for z/OS

[Cynthia Hamm]

We are pleased to announce the availability of Release 20.0 Genlevel INC00 of the CA Database Management Solutions for DB2 for z/OS. This release is an incremental release that allows us to provide new product features more quickly to customers. The release consists of two phases:

Incremental Phase

• During the incremental phase, our product development teams work closely with customers to create new features. As the incremental phase progresses, new product features and defect fixes are added to the release through the maintenance stream as PTFs. Customers are expected to keep current on all available maintenance.
  Note: See New Product Features and Enhancements in the CA Database Management Solutions for DB2 for z/OS Release Notes documentation for a list of new features by product. This documentation will be updated as new features are added.

Complete Phase

• The incremental release phase transitions to the complete phase and is called a GA Complete Release. The GA Complete Release includes all new features and maintenance cumulatively that were introduced during the incremental phase.

You can participate in the incremental release phase or wait for the GA complete release phase. For more information about these phases and the advantages and disadvantages for your site, see Is an Incremental Release Right for You?

Important! We recommend that customers who are moving to DB2 12 Continuous Delivery Support upgrade to this release. Release 19.0 of the CA Database Management Solutions for DB2 for z/OS only supports DB2 function levels V12R1M100 and V12R1M500.

For detailed installation instructions, see the Installing documentation.

To download your copy of this release, go to the Download Center on CA Support Online. Review the CA Incremental Release Program - Support Policy and Terms. If you have any questions or require assistance, contact CA Support and use our online case management or choose to speak with a customer representative or a CA Support engineer.

If you need assistance in implementing this new release, our CA Services experts can help. For more information about CA Services and how you can leverage our expertise, visit CA Services. 

For more information about this post, please contact [e-mail] (Principal Information Engineer).

[Chris Hoelscher]

To avoid downloading to a pc …

 

 

1)      Create a zFS <?> folder on the MF

 

2)      Create order for download on CA website

 

3)      Download to that folder on the mf

 

Here are some examples

 

MKDIR '/u/userid/autousers/uuuuuuu/PTRPR200/' MODE(7,5,5)

OSHELL CHMOD 755 /u/userid/autousers/uuuuuuu/PTRPR200/

OSHELL CHOWN -R D902DBA:uuuuuuu /u/userid/autousers/uuuuuuu/PTRPR200/

 

 

cd /site-id/order#/

bin

get DVD03101804E.pax.Z +

'/u/userid/autousers/uuuuuuu  /PTRPR200/DVD03101804E.PAX.Z' (replace

list

 

150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /115304/12234750.

EZA2284I lrw-rw-r--   1     1994     1994        0 May 11 21:38 DVD03101804E.pax.Z

 

And proceed with the installation from there!

[Cynthia Hamm]

Thanks for the sample instructions.

The Installing documentation includes instructions for downloading the products to the mainframe directly and to the pc. For more information, see Acquire the Products Using Pax-ESD. Instructions are also provided to Acquire the Products Using CA Chorus Software Manager.

For more information about the release, see the Release Notes.