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CA MICS Live Customer Session - Showcase MICS 14.3 Release Enhancements plus Product Updates/Information Date/Time: September 30th, 11AM EST

  • 1.  CA MICS Live Customer Session - Showcase MICS 14.3 Release Enhancements plus Product Updates/Information Date/Time: September 30th, 11AM EST

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Sep 18, 2020 08:07 AM
    Dear CA MICS Stakeholders,

    Note: Invites are already sent, please email paul.reynolds@broadcom.com if you or anyone you know is interested in attending - Thank you.

    Please join us for our first Showcase of Enhancements for our new/in progress MICS 14.3 Release, as well as a number of Product updates and useful resources for all MICS Users.

    Agenda:
    1. State of the New MICS 14.3 Release - Enhancements in Flight or already Published

    2. Showcase 14.3 Enhancements - Highlights and Business Value Information of the following:
    RMF7140
    - Exploitation Support for the New z15 (HIS) Hardware Instrumentation Service Counters

    RMF7142
    - Updates to Six of our SAS ODS Inquiries to cater to the New z15 Machine

    CIC6853
    - Support for CICS Transaction Server 5.6

    TAP7160
    - Support for the New TS7700 Hydra 8.5.0 Release

    DB26917
    - DB2 Post v11/12 Continuous APAR Support Thru RSU1906

    IMS6720 & IDM6622
    - Add Option statement to turn On/Off all Response Distribution elements for the IMS and IDMS Components

    RMF7125
    - Support for Storage Class Memory Coupling Facility (OA40515, OA45421) and Asynchronous Coupling Facility Structure Duplexing (OA49148) IBM APARS

    RMF7130 - High Level Overview on these items being supported with a follow up session to go into the finer details for those customers interested
    - OA48688 - Hardware Group Capping support (including Partition Capping status) 
    - OA54404 - DFSMS Encryption metric 
    - OA52694 - Support for Tailored Fit Pricing (formerly known as Container Based Pricing)
    - OA54916 - RMF Memory Metering  - added new Tenant Resource Group(TRG) data section                                                                          
    - OA56683 - RMF System Recovery Boost support on z15                                                                                                             
    - OA54914 - RMF Support for z14 ZR1 Hardware Model Change                                                                                                                           
    - OA56011 - OSProtect Mitigation Status                                                                                                                                                     

    3. Other PTF's Published so far with MICS 14.3
    - Technical Currency PTF's for new Releases (Toleration Support)
    - Defect Correction PTF's

    4. Updates and Useful Resources

    5. Q&A

    This session will be recorded and made available on VALIDATE.BROADCOM.COM for those who are unable to attend.
    However, we encourage your attendance and active participation as you will have the ability to ask questions during this session.

    Best regards,
    Paul Reynolds
    MICS Product Owner

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    Product Owner
    Broadcom
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