CA Mainframe Software Manager Ps_210167 (4)

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Business Value

CA MSM dramatically

simpliies how both mainrame

experts and novices install

and maintain CA sotware,

which can provide signiicantbusiness value through:

Redced software Total Cost

of Ownership (TCO)

Enabling the next generation

to manage the mainrame

eectively

Faster and easier installation

and maintenance o the CA

mainrame sotware stack

Better adherence to best

practices or each product

installation and coniguration

More accrate reslts by

reducing the opportunities to

make errors or misinterpret

instructions

Product Overview

CA MSM provides a

standardized set o intelligent,

automated sotware

management services that

help you acquire, install andmaintain CA mainrame

sotware more quickly, more

easily, and more accurately,

even i you lack in-depth

knowledge o z/OS tools

sch as SMP/E. These services

are accessed through a rich

web-based user interace

implemented using the Google

Web Toolkit and based on

SOA design principles. CA

MSM automatically detects

product maintenance as it

becomes available, enabling

you to promptly download and

install that maintenance.

Delivery Approach

CA Services provides a

portolio o mainrame

services delivered through CA

internal sta and a network o

established business partnerschosen to help you achieve a

successul deployment and ge

the desired business results

as qickly as possible. Or

standard service oerings are

designed to speed deploymen

and accelerate the learning

crve for yor staff. CAs

ield-proven mainrame best

practices and training help

lower risk, improve use/

adoption and ultimately align

the product coniguration to

yor bsiness reqirements.

PRODUCT SHEET: CA MAINFRAME SOFTWARE MANAGER

CA Mainframe Software Manager

CA Mainframe Software Manager (CA MSM) is a key component of CAs Mainframe 2.0

strategy to help you derive maximum value rom your mainrame platorm and to change the

way yo manage the mainframe forever. CA MSM provides a set of services that enables both

mainframe experts and novices to easily and qickly acqire, install and maintain CAs

mainframe software. It proactively informs yo when pdates are available and alleviates JCL

and SMP/E complexities.


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Whats New, Whats Compelling?The initial release of CA MSM provides:

n The Product Acquisition Service, which enables you to easily move product installation packages and

maintenance rom CA Support Online directly to your mainrame environment and prepare them or

installation.

n The Software Installation Service, which standardizes CA prodct installation. It takes advantage of the new,

streamlined Electronic Software Delivery (ESD) method that allows yo to install prodcts sing standard

tilities withot reqiring yo to reconstitte a tape cartridge. This service also provides standardized

SMP/E prodct installation and maintenance via APARs and PTFs, and simplifies SMP/E processing throgh an

intitive graphical ser interface and an intelligent Installation Wizard.

FeatresIn addition to the Prodct Acqisition Service and the Software Installation Service, CA MSMs initial release alsoincludes these eatures:

n Browser-based Interface: A amiliar web operating environment or sotware management activities that is

z/OS based and enables staff with minimm mainframe expertise to install and maintain CA software. (See

Figre A.)

n Synchronized Release Stack: The synchronized, certified release stack incldes 45 leading CA prodcts for

z/OS that are tested or CA product interoperability as well as compatibility and exploitation o the current

release of z/OS, ths promoting qality and redcing defects. Each year additional prodcts will be added to

the stack, with the objective of eventally inclding all CA prodcts for z/OS.

n Integrated Health Checks: More than 100 health checks across 24 mainframe prodcts are already available to

help optimize prodct se. These health checks, which execte nder the IBM Health Checker for z/OS, provide

new prodct capabilities to inspect the environment and, based on policy, recommend the proper configration.

They also periodically recommend implementation changes based on collected prodct metrics and exection

experience. More Health Checks across additional CA prodcts are being added.

n Best Practices Guides: These gides provide information on prodct installation, initial configration and

deployment to shorten the learning crve for the staff responsible for prodct installation and management.

n Interoperability Certification: The prodcts in the release stack have been tested together as part of a

dedicated effort to find and resolve interoperability problems prior to release.

n Open Architecture: CA MSM has an open architecture that can support installation and maintenance o

non-CA software.


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EASY WEB INTERFACE

Beneitsn By standardizing and simpliying the installation and maintenance o CA sotware, CA MSM helps a new

generation manage the mainrame eectively and gives more experienced sta time or more challenging tasks

that advance their bsiness initiatives.

n By drastically reducing the human intervention required to take a product rom delivery to execution, CA MSM

also helps redce the likelihood of errors and helps enforce best practices.

Internal testing by a CA expert and a CA novice using CA MSM showed dramatic time savings or both installation

and maintenance. Figres B and C smmarize the reslts.

Why CACA MSM is a key component of CAs Mainframe 2.0 initiative to change the way yo manage the mainframe forever.

For more than 30 years, yo have relied on CAs mainframe management expertise to manage, govern and secre

yor critical mainframe environment. Mainframe 2.0 extends CAs leadership by providing an enhanced cstomer

experience, technical innovation and the agility to deliver vale qickly and flexibly.

FIGuRE A: A familiar web operating environment enables staff with minimm mainframe expertise to install and maintain CA software.


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RAPID INSTALLATION WITH CA MSM

EASY MAINTENANCE WITH CA MSM

FIGuRE B: Both the CA expert and novice installers were able to install 10 CA prodcts mch more rapidly sing CA MSM.

Product Name

CA 1 Tape Management

CA SMF Director

CA Auditor or z/OS

CA JARS Resorce Acconting

CA MIM Resorce Sharing

CA OPS/MVS Event Management

and Automation

CA Datacom

CA Panvalet

CA Librarian

CA SymDump or CICS

ESD Install: Expert

36 mintes

40 mintes

26 mintes

37 mintes

30 mintes

36 mintes

1 hor 14 mintes

54 mintes

28 mintes

38 mintes

CA MSM Install:

Expert

9 mintes

5 mintes

7 mintes

5 mintes

5 mintes

6 mintes

6 mintes

3 mintes

2 mintes

3 mintes

ESD Install: Novice

3 hors 12 mintes

1 hor 10 mintes

2 hors 22 mintes

1 hour 11 minutes

1 hor 31 mintes

1 hor 50 mintes

3 hors 8 mintes

1 hour 11 minutes

1 hor 13 mintes

4 hors 3 mintes

CA MSM Install:

Novice

14 mintes

6 mintes

8 mintes

6 mintes

5 mintes

7 mintes

10 mintes

5 mintes

6 mintes

6 mintes

Product Name

CA Auditor

CA Cleanp for CA ACF2CA Easytrieve

CA Endevor Software

Change Manager

CA Librarian

CA Panvalet

CA View

Number

of Fixes

14

19

19

15

12

4

Traditional

Maintenance:

Expert

23 mintes

6 mintes24 mintes

32 mintes

45 mintes

27 mintes

32 mintes

CA MSM Maintenance:

Expert

1 minte 22 seconds

38 seconds1 minte 24 seconds

5 mintes 5 seconds

1 minte 58 seconds

1 mintes 39 seconds

1 minte 48 seconds

Traditional

Maintenance:

Novice

41 mintes

33 mintes60 mintes

46 mintes

38 mintes

62 mintes

37 mintes

FIGuRE C: Both the CA expert and novice installers were able to apply maintenance mch more rapidly sing CA MSM.

CA MSM Maintenance:

Novice

1 minte 30 seconds

1 minte 13 seconds1 minte 59 seconds

10 mintes 2 seconds

2 mintes 55 seconds

2 mintes 25 seconds

1 minte 39 seconds

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