Release Notes Version 18.0.00

CA Database Management Solutions for IMS for z/OS

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CA Technologies Product References

This document references the following CA Technologies products:

■ CA Compress™ Data Compression for IMS (CA Compress Data Compression)

■ CA Chorus™ (CA Chorus)

■ CA Chorus™ for IMS Database Management (CA Chorus for IMS Database Management)

■ CA Chorus™ Software Manager (CA CSM)

■ CA Database Analyzer™ for IMS for z/OS (CA Database Analyzer)

■ CA Database Copier™ for IMS for z/OS (CA Database Copier)

■ CA Database Organizer™ for IMS for z/OS (CA Database Organizer)

■ CA Datacom® (CA Datacom)

■ CA High Performance Recovery for IMS for z/OS (CA High Performance Recovery)

■ CA Mainframe Configuration Manager for IMS for z/OS (CA Mainframe Configuration Manager)

■ CA Mainframe Extended Terminal Manager for IMS for z/OS (CA Mainframe Extended Terminal Manager)

■ CA Mainframe Program Restart Manager for IMS for z/OS (CA Mainframe Program Restart Manager)

■ CA Secondary Index for IMS for z/OS (CA Secondary Index)

■ CA Secondary Index Builder for IMS for z/OS (CA Secondary Index Builder)

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Contents

Chapter 1: Enhancements 7

Incremental Release ..................................................................................................................................................... 7

CA CSM ......................................................................................................................................................................... 8

IMS Version Support .................................................................................................................................................... 8

zIIP Support .................................................................................................................................................................. 8

CA Database Analyzer Enhancements .......................................................................................................................... 9

zIIP Support ........................................................................................................................................................... 9

Enhanced Search in Control Block Validity Manager ............................................................................................ 9

CA Database Copier Enhancements ............................................................................................................................. 9

zIIP Support ........................................................................................................................................................... 9

Stacking of Output Image Copies Support when Making Copy of an Image Copy .............................................. 10

DFSMSdss Support .............................................................................................................................................. 10

CA Database Organizer Enhancements ...................................................................................................................... 11

CA High Performance Recovery Enhancements ......................................................................................................... 11

CA Mainframe Extended Terminal Manager Enhancements ..................................................................................... 11

CA Chorus for IMS Database Management ................................................................................................................ 12

Chapter 2: Documentation 13

Common Guides ......................................................................................................................................................... 13

Product Guides ........................................................................................................................................................... 14

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Chapter 1: Enhancements

Welcome to the CA Database Management Solutions for IMS for z/OS Release Notes for Version 18.0. This guide describes enhancements and the documentation set for these products.

This section contains the following topics:

Incremental Release (see page 7) CA CSM (see page 8) IMS Version Support (see page 8) zIIP Support (see page 8) CA Database Analyzer Enhancements (see page 9) CA Database Copier Enhancements (see page 9) CA Database Organizer Enhancements (see page 11) CA High Performance Recovery Enhancements (see page 11) CA Mainframe Extended Terminal Manager Enhancements (see page 11) CA Chorus for IMS Database Management (see page 12)

Incremental Release

The Incremental Release Program is a customer-interactive delivery model where we develop new product features and release them using the Agile development methodology. The CA Technologies development teams work closely with customers to create product features for rapid implementation. We work with customers to release new features incrementally, as we complete them, rather than waiting for a list of features to complete. After all of the features for an incremental release are completed, the release transitions to the standard support policy.

To participate in the Incremental Release program, review the Incremental Release Program – Support Policy and Terms. To discuss the customer requirements for participation, contact the product manager for your product. Participating in the Agile development process is not mandatory.

CA CSM

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CA CSM

CA CSM Version 6.0 lets you perform the following tasks:

■ Filter target zones in a multizone SMP/E environment and organize them in zone sets.

■ Schedule an automatic maintenance update for all or some products that are installed in an SMP/E environment.

■ Manage product maintenance in a unified and simplified manner.

In addition, the SMP/E Environments tab was reworked to let you navigate through your SMP/E environments easier and faster, and improve your overall user experience.

Note: For more information, see the CA CSM online help.

IMS Version Support

Version 18.0 of CA Database Management Solutions for IMS for z/OS supports the following IMS versions:

■ IMS 11

■ IMS 12

■ IMS 13

Note: For the most current IMS version support information, see IMS Compatibilities on CA Support Online.

zIIP Support

IBM System z Integrated Information Processor (zIIP) support is now provided for the following products:

■ CA Database Analyzer

■ CA Database Copier

System z Integrated Information Processor (zIIP) support is now provided. Offloading zIIP-eligible workloads to zIIP processors can reduce the processing load on your CPUs. zIIP processing can also decrease overall processing time by implementing tasks in parallel.

This functionality is enabled through the new ZIIP control statement.

CA Database Analyzer Enhancements

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CA Database Analyzer Enhancements

The following enhancements have been made to CA Database Analyzer with this release:

■ zIIP support is now provided.

■ DBD and PSB search in Control Block Validity Manager is now enhanced.

zIIP Support

System z Integrated Information Processor (zIIP) support is now provided. CA Database Analyzer can now use zIIP processors when analyzing databases or performing pointer checks. This functionality is available when CA Database Analyzer runs standalone or when performing statistical database analysis running under CA Database Copier.

This functionality is enabled through the new ZIIP control statement.

Note: For more information about this control statement, see the CA Database Analyzer Reference Guide.

Enhanced Search in Control Block Validity Manager

The display of Control Block Validity Manager SEARCH function results was enhanced. When the OR operator is used in the DBD or PSB search, search results indicate which of the specified search criteria were matched.

CA Database Copier Enhancements

The following enhancements have been made to CA Database Copier with this release:

■ zIIP support is now provided.

■ Stacking of output data sets for the COPYIC function is now provided.

zIIP Support

System z Integrated Information Processor (zIIP) support is now provided. CA Database Copier can now use zIIP processors when making image copies.

This functionality is enabled through the new ZIIP control statement.

Note: For more information about this control statement, see the CA Database Copier Reference Guide.

CA Database Copier Enhancements

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Stacking of Output Image Copies Support when Making Copy of an Image Copy

The CA Database Copier COPYIC function now supports stacking of output image copies onto a single tape volume. Stacking files onto a tape volume can significantly reduce the number of tape volumes required for image copy processes.

Note: This support was added after the Version 16.0 GA announcement of the CA Database Management Solutions for IMS for z/OS. For more information about the COPYIC function and stacking of image copy output data sets, see the CA Database Copier Reference Guide.

DFSMSdss Support

Snapshot General Services now provides DFSMSdss (DFDSS) copy support. You can now specify whether to use the native Snapshot method or DFDSS to copy your data sets. You can also use the failover option, which switches from the native method to DFDSS. The ability to specify the copy method gives you greater control over the creation of your Snapshot copies. The failover capability increases the reliability of Snapshot General Services, enabling you to take full advantage of its high performance copy methods.

For EMC devices, failover support is provided when the following conditions are present:

■ The EMCSCF subsystem is not active.

■ The source volume is not eligible.

■ The target volume is a Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF) that is operating in asynchronous mode.

For IBM 2105 (Shark) devices, failover support is provided when the following conditions are present:

■ The target volume is an IBM 2105 that is operating as a primary Peer to Peer Remote Copy (PPRC).

■ The target volume is an IBM 2105 that is operating as a primary Extended Remote Copy (XRC).

■ The target volume is an IBM 2105 that is already in a FlashCopy relationship.

Failover support is also provided when the target volume is a FlashCopy I Extended Addressability Volume (EAV) device.

This functionality is enabled through the USEDFDSS parameter in the OPTIONS statement.

Note: For more information about the OPTIONS statement, see the Installation Guide.

CA Database Organizer Enhancements

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CA Database Organizer Enhancements

The following enhancement has been made to CA Database Organizer with this release:

The default value for the IMSRCCOMPATIBLE control statement of the Prefix Resolution and Update component of CA Database Organizer has been changed to NO. In previous releases, the default value was YES when PRU was invoked as program DFSURG10. This change was made because most customers who were converting to PRU found the return code of 4 confusing when there were logical parents without logical children. A return code of zero will be returned in this situation when IMSRCCOMPATIBLE is NO.

To keep the previous release return code values, add IMSRCCOMPATIBLE=YES to the PRU control statements for the jobs where you invoke PRU as program DFSURG10 (IMS compatibility mode). Or, you can add the control statement to the PFXRES or PRUPARMS members in the IDIPARM global parameters library. This approach also affects PRU return codes when it is invoked as ITKPRU.

CA High Performance Recovery Enhancements

The following enhancements have been made to CA High Performance Recovery with this release:

CA High Performance Recovery now has the ability to recover HALDB databases that have been reorganized using the IMS Online Reorganization (OLR) Facility. This functionality includes recovering to current or to a point-in-time. It also includes functionality added to CA Secondary Index Builder (SIB) to rebuild the secondary indexes, primary indexes, and ILDS’s in a cursor-active status situation when SIB is invoked under recovery.

CA Mainframe Extended Terminal Manager Enhancements

CA Mainframe Extended Terminal Manager now lets you specify the maximum number of sessions per user ID. This functionality is enabled through the new global option MAXIMUM SESSIONS PER USER ID (MAXSESSION).

Note: This support was added after the Version 16.0 GA announcement of the CA Database Management Solutions for IMS for z/OS. For more information about how to enable multiple signons with the same user ID, see the CA Mainframe Extended Terminal Manager User Guide.

CA Chorus for IMS Database Management

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CA Chorus for IMS Database Management

Version 04.0.00 of CA Chorus and Version 18.0.00 of CA Database Management Solutions for IMS for z/OS introduces the CA Chorus for IMS Database Management discipline that helps database administrators (DBAs) streamline repetitive DBA tasks.

Close integration of products from the CA Database Management Solutions for IMS for z/OS family with the CA Chorus interface lets DBAs easily access and evaluate information about database status, occupied space, and level of disorganization, and monitor thresholds and alerts to identify, potential issues. Documentation of actions taken and other experiences can be easily accessed and shared to help accelerate knowledge and simplify mentoring to the next generation of DBAs.

This discipline offers the following major innovations using the enhanced workspace:

Monitoring Database Status, Space Use, and Disorganization

This discipline displays information about database status, space use, and disorganization at the database data set level of granularity. This information enables DBAs to quickly improve database health and efficiency and increase application and system performance. Customized alerts and policies ensure that DBAs can quickly identify and resolve potential issues.

Monitoring Database Recovery Readiness

This discipline provides health check status of recovery environment and image copies generally.

Graphical Data Representation

This discipline allows running analytical functions like count, sum, or average for collected data and display results graphically in charts to facilitate data evaluation.

This discipline uses following data sources:

RECON Data Sets

A new RECON scan utility is provided in CA High Performance Recovery. This utility collects information about databases that are registered in RECONs and about physical data sets. By running this utility regularly, you ensure that the CA Chorus for IMS Database Management discipline displays the most current data.

CA Utility Execution

The CA Database Analyzer and CA Database Copier functions provide data about their latest execution to the CA Chorus for IMS Database Management discipline. This data contains the function identification, such as name and timestamp, and the data provided by the function for the database object.

Note: For more information, see the CA Chorus for IMS Database Management documentation at the CA Support Online portal.

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Chapter 2: Documentation

CA Database Management Solutions for IMS for z/OS now offers documentation on the wiki-based platform at https://wiki.ca.com/ims, which provides a collaborative environment to let you:

■ Find answers quickly with intuitive search options

■ Export content to PDF and EPUB files

■ Rate or comment on any topic, and provide feedback to CA Technologies

■ View Flipboard Product Cookbooks

■ Access up-to-date information

CA Information Services monitors each wiki and updates each site regularly. Leave a comment on the wiki and let us know how it works for you.

CA Database Management Solutions for IMS for z/OS documentation includes scenarios to help you work more efficiently. A scenario is concise, easy-to-find information presented in the context of how a specific customer role interacts with a product to achieve a specific goal. Scenarios can have the following traits:

■ Explain product-related business processes and complex tasks.

■ Provide a narrative example and diagrams.

Additionally, CA Database Management Solutions for IMS for z/OS documentation includes end-to-end content so you have access to content and related links from Support, Marketing, Product Management, and Education.

In addition to the new platform, updated guides are still available from the Download Center on CA Support Online.

Common Guides

The following common guides are provided:

■ Best Practices Guide

■ Command Control Manager User Guide

■ IMS Information Repository User Guide

■ Installation Guide

■ Message Reference Guide

■ Release Notes

Product Guides

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Product Guides

The following product-specific documentation is provided:

■ CA Compress Data Compression User Guide

■ CA Database Analyzer for IMS for z/OS Reference Guide

■ CA Database Copier for IMS for z/OS Reference Guide

■ CA Database Organizer for IMS for z/OS Reference Guide

■ CA High Performance Recovery for IMS for z/OS Reference Guide

■ CA Mainframe Configuration Manager for IMS for z/OS User Guide

■ CA Mainframe Extended Terminal Manager for IMS for z/OS User Guide

■ CA Mainframe Program Restart Manager for IMS for z/OS User Guide

■ CA Secondary Index for IMS for z/OS Reference Guide

■ CA Secondary Index Builder for IMS for z/OS Reference Guide