September 2015
To: CA SYSVIEW® Performance Management (SYSVIEW) Customers
From: The CA Technologies SYSVIEW Product Team
Subject: General Availability Announcement for CA SYSVIEW 14.1
On behalf of CA Technologies, 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 SYSVIEW 14.1 is now available.
New features for CA SYSVIEW 14.1 include:
Feature | Description | Benefit |
Technical Currency | Day one support of zOS 2.2, IMS14, CICS 5.3 and z13 support | Allows customers to exploit the latest technologies for the zEnterprise® leveraging their significant investment in the System z® platform |
Product Navigation | Context sensitive menu of available commands with Line command assist | Provides user direction within SYSVIEW screens allowing for command free navigation thus not requiring a user to remember all line commands |
Training videos | Provide short training videos targeted at an inexperienced user. | Provides access to short instructional training for self served needs. Enhances the ability for the customer to maximize new user uptime via self directed learning. |
Documentation | Move all user manuals and product resident documentation to a wiki. | Documentation is easily accessible, searchable and shareable for self service needs |
CICS Exec interface trace | Ability to trace CICS transactions and analyze the results. | Locate detailed information about related CICS applications and corresponding transactions across the complex. |
Metric Best Practice for new customers | Default enable metric data collection has been significantly reduced. | Reduces user’s requirement to tune SYSVIEW after initial installation |
Log stream enhancements | Added filter capability to all log stream browsing commands | Allows the user to easily find interesting historical transactions |
We also encourage you to visit the CA SYSVIEW product information page on the CA Support Online website at https://support.ca.com/.
You can download your copy of CA SYSVIEW 14.1 from CA Support Online https://support.ca.com/. If you have questions or require assistance, contact CA Customer Care online at http://www.ca.com/us/customer-care.aspx, where you can submit an online request using the Customer Care web form: https://communities.ca.com/web/guest/customercare. You can also call CA Customer Care at +1-800-225-5224![]( "Call: +1-800-225-5224")
in North America or see http://www.ca.com/phone for the local number in your country.
We recommend that you use CA Chorus™ Software Manager (CA CSM) (formerly known as CA Mainframe Software Manager™ (CA MSM)) to download and install CA SYSVIEW. CA CSM is designed to automate product acquisition, installation, deployment, configuration and maintenance and remove SMP/E complexities. CA CSM helps save time and resources when compared with the manual steps used to perform these tasks. CA SYSVIEW can be used with CA CSM today. To learn more about the new features provided by CA CSM, please visit: https://support.ca.com/prodinfo/csm.
Should you need assistance in understanding these new features or implementing this latest release, our CA Services experts can help. For more information about CA Services and how you can leverage our expertise, please visit www.ca.com/services. To connect, learn and share with other customers, join and participate in our CA Mainframe Performance Management Community.
To review our CA Technologies Support Policy and Terms, please visit:
https://support.ca.com/
Thank you again for your business.