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ISPF tools for Endevor and Quick-Edit

By Joseph Walther
The objects of this blog run only under IBM’s ISPF for Endevor and Quick-Edit. So, they do not apply to Endevor activity outside of ISPF, such as actions under zowe, VS Code, or Eclipse. For more information about ISPF, see What is ISPF? According ...
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New Endevor Capabilities Replacing Change Manager Enterprise Workbench

By Vaughn Marshall
Change Manager Enterprise Workbench, also known as CMEW, is going to be End-of-Life as of March, 31st, 2025. While it served organizations with both Endevor and Harvest SCM for many years, much of what it was originally built to do is now ...
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Extending Element OPTIONS - Not all Elements are alike

By Joseph Walther
Introduction Not all mainframe programs are alike. Each programming language has a unique compiler for translating source code into executables. Additional program attributes require further processing variations. For example, a COBOL program ...
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Package Shipping and Post-Ship Scripts De-mystified

By Joseph Walther
Introduction The diagram below depicts an Endevor configuration that includes the optional package shipping feature. Any number of stages may exist in an Endevor life cycle from start to finish. Typically at least one of the initial stages ...
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Expand Input Components

By Joseph Walther
Introduction Many programming languages support the use of language snippets. These can be coded once and copied or included anywhere using a simple reference to the snippet name. For example, COBOL programs may reference COBOL snippets found ...
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Package Automation - what are you waiting for?

By Joseph Walther
Introduction Some things are so easily seen as part of a routine, that even the family dog can recognize them. You might see ready and eager eyes looking at you and suggesting “What are you waiting for”? Similar identifiable routines exist for ...
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ACM Builds Without Generates

By Joseph Walther
Introduction Some Endevor sites have existed for years without the full benefit of the Automated Configuration Manager (ACM). Perhaps time constraints or other pressing demands, years or decades ago, led to shortcuts that rendered an incomplete ACM. ...
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Debugging with Optimized Code

By Rose Sakach
CA InterTest™ Support for IBM® Enterprise COBOL for z/OS® and Optimized Code Debugging Blog_Debugging_with_Optimized_Code.pdf Rose Sakach
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Multi-Factor Authentication now available for Endevor REST API, Eclipse plugin

By Peter McCullough
Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) support is now available for the CA Endevor SCM V18 web services component. Support for MFA is delivered with PTFs SO07729 & SO07730; the CA Endevor SCM v18 product documentation has been updated to provide information ...
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SO05963 - CA Endevor SCM V18 "roll-up" PTF available

By Peter McCullough
PTF SO05963 (maintenance roll-up) has been published. This PTF provides a convenient way for Endevor sites to update their v18 implementation with all product maintenance that has been published since18.0.12 was made Generally Available (GA) in April ...
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CA InterTest™ and CA SymDump® Version 11.0.04 (Incremental Delivery #4) Published!

By Petr Vacula
Incremental Release Delivery 11.0.04 PTFs have been published. Summary of Changes in Version 11.0.04 ARCH(12) Support InterTest CICS: 6-digit statement numbers Maintenance Please refer to the Release Information section of the product ...
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CA InterTest™ and CA SymDump® Version 11.0.03 (Incremental Delivery #3) Published!

By Petr Vacula
Incremental Release Delivery 11.0.03 PTFs have been published. Summary of Changes in Version 11.0.03 PL/I 5.2 Support Maintenance Please refer to the Release Information section of the product documentation for more information on ...
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Looking to streamline your enterprise DevOps and increase your productivity?

By Stefan Kochishan
Check-out our no-cost Eclipse-based plugins for CA Mainframe Development Tools . They are designed to extend your IDE to your mainframe. By integrating CA Mainframe Development tools, you can build, test and update applications through one intuitive ...
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What’s the secret to boosting DevOps productivity across your enterprise? Join us!

By Marvin.Mao
Please join us February 13, 2017 at 11am ET for an informative discussion on proven approaches that bring both the cloud experience and modern DevOps approaches to mainframe development. Hear from leading analyst Jason Bloomberg, Intellyx, and CA DevOps ...
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CA InterTest™ and CA SymDump® Version 11.0.02 (Incremental Delivery #2) Published!

By Petr Vacula
Incremental Release Delivery 11.0.02 PTFs have been published. Summary of Changes in Version 11.0.02 New! Visual Debugger feature (included in the CA InterTest Eclipse UI) z/OS 2.3 Support COBOL V6.2 Support Maintenance Please refer ...
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PDS Monitor of CA Compliance Event Manager for CA Endevor SCM Customers

By Ekaterina Tumanova
The CA Product Management team is pleased to announce that starting in December 2017 all CA Endevor SCM customers can get enhanced security with the PDS Monitor feature of CA Compliance Event Manager, which they can acquire at no additional cost. ...
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Mainframe & Modern Software Delivery

By Su Brude
We at CA want to learn from you! We want to get insights from you on how mainframe and distributed systems and teams work together in your organization. When you help us better understand your organization, we will send you a link to a series ...
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The CA Endevor SCM Survey Is Open! :)

By Ekaterina Tumanova
The Customer Feedback survey for CA Endevor SCM is open and will remain available through December 3, 2017 . Your feedback will help shape the future direction of CA Endevor SCM. Customer feedback is extremely important to us at CA Technologies and ...
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Eclipse UI is a part of the base product.

By Ekaterina Tumanova
On behalf of the Product Management team, I would like to inform you that from now on the CA Endevor SCM Eclipse-Based UI is delivered with the base product. You no longer need to purchase the CA Endevor QuickEdit option to use our plugin.
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CA Endevor SCM V18 18.0.11 Incremental Delivery PTF now available

By Peter McCullough
Incremental Release Delivery 18.0.11 PTFs RO97273 (Endevor Base) & RO97274 (Web Services) have been published. Summary of Changes in Version 18.0.11 A brief description of the changes that are included in this incremental release delivery follow: ...
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