how to get the best user experience for your customers with: ca view® / ca deliver™
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How to Get the Best User Experience for Your Customers With: CA View® / CA Deliver™
Rodrick Penson
Mainframe
CA Technologies
Sr. Principal Consultant
Session Number – MFX37E
@Thepenson
#CAWorld
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Abstract
In the application economy, it is a must to quickly drive
new business features. As a Solution Administrator or
User, report delivery and report access is very critical to
your success in today’s business world and for today's
mainframe. Please join our session to discuss the new
features and functions of output management solutions
from CA in the fast-paced world of the application
economy that will delight your users. Let CA show you
how to reduce product support cost while expanding and
exploring new user business value with CA View® and CA
Deliver™ featuring the Web interface.
Rodrick Penson
CA Technologies
Sr. Principal Consultant
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For Informational Purposes Only
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Agenda
THE AGILE WAY
NEW FEATURES - INCREMENTAL RELEASE OVERVIEW
Q & A
THE FUTURE – WEB VIEWER FOR CA VIEW®/CA DELIVER™ 12.2
MAJOR ENHANCEMENT FEATURE OVERVIEW – CA VIEW® JOB MODE
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CA View®/CA Deliver™ 12.2 What Is Agile, Incremental Release and Sprint Reviews
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Agile Development Transformation
Driving Significant Business Value for our Customers!
Speed Quality
Performance
UK Customer Standard Life benefits from CA agile process
251 unique customers participated in 56 product releases during a year
99.5% reduction in cost
98% reduction in month end cycle time
45 products released against zero defect policy
20% decrease in support issues
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What is Agile Development?
http://agilemanifesto.org/
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Agile Development for Output Management Solutions
When a “critical mass” of agile features have been released and validated by customers, the agile phase of the development process will end and the product will transition into a “Mature Release”— The development team may or may not choose to have a beta
— A “mature release” behaves like today’s supported releases
— Sustaining engineering will deliver corrective fixes, migration, and toleration support when necessary
The development team will shift to the next Incremental Release
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What is an Incremental Release @CA?
A deliverable generated by the agile development process
Available to any customer who agrees to participate in the agile process
and agree to product deployment rules
Fully supported by normal CA support processes
— Customer can deploy to any environment, including production
New functions (Agile Features) are released every few sprints, when the
development and customer teams decide that there is sufficient new
capability to package and release for customer consumption
— Uses standard SMP/E packaging (for z/OS based content)
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Why Product Sprint Reviews @ CA?
Products can deliver, verify and correct new features more quickly and in
smaller increments
Enhancement requests can be made available more quickly
CA can reduce the volume of corrective fixes delivered through the service
stream
— Corrective fixes can be delivered with the next Agile Feature (with customer consent) rather than shipping via individual corrective PTFs
— Having customers focus on features as released and over a longer period of time will naturally lead to earlier discovery of issues, (implementation problems, coding errors, usability concerns, etc., nearer the time of original coding
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THIS IS THE AGE OF THE APPLICATION
ECONOMY
AND IT’S ALL ABOUT THE CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE…
IT SYSTEMS MAKE OR BREAK YOUR CUSTOMER’S EXPERIENCE
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CA View®/CA Deliver™ 12.2 Incremental Release Enhancements
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Enhancement- Report Writer for CA View® - VIEWGRWProvide a report writer within CA View®, similar to the one in CA Deliver™, for easy extraction of information from the CA View® database
Ability to extract and report on the CA View® database Metadata, similar to how they can from the CA Deliver™ database, without having to write an assembler program.
Delivered - July 28, 2014
Why is this important for you to Know?There are times where programmers or a line of business unit need to know the cost and what reports are stored, how much data, tapes, or lines of data being stored on CA View® quickly using a simple batch job.
This function use to reside in a program called SARSAM and now it is available in user friendly format.
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Enhancement- CA Deliver™ Performance/Capacity ImprovementsPerformance/Capacity Improvements:
Increase the maximum size of the checkpoint file Customers will be able to set a threshold that when exceeded will put out messages to
take action Customers will be alerted to the fact that the checkpoint file has reached a certain
threshold through a health check and through OPS/MVS automation Increase the number of dynamic reports that can be created from a single source Reduce the amount of memory used to create dynamic reports Reduce the amount of CPU needed to create dynamic reports
Delivered - February 5, 2015Why is this important for you to Know?CA Deliver™ is the work horse for capturing, printing and archiving reports to CA View®. In todays world of the “Application Economy” capturing and processing a lot of report data, the checkpoint was improved to handle very large workloads. By integrating into CA OPSMVS, a more proactive alerting can be managed. The introduction of Dynamic REPORTIDS depending on the report can be resource intense, so the performance of CA Deliver™ is critical.
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Enhancement – CA View® Indexing Composite Keys Allow the creation of composite value indexes based on multiple values located in more than one place on a page
Creation of composite value based indexes that will reduce the amount of report pages required to find specific data based on values from multiple places within a page
Delivered - March 10, 2015
Why is this important for you to Know?There are times where a client may need two logical view indexes to identify a report page. For example, Index by Region name and index by a Branch office. Example Region=001, Branch 002.
The user would have to input two different values to get the pages of a report. Using the composite indexing, this will allow CA View® to merge and display those two indexes together showing one index value instead of two. So the now the user could input one index value to quickly see the pages of the report Example- Region= 001002
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Enhancement – CA View® Operations Job Mode Improve User Experience when searching and viewing jobs and logs
Add new Job mode so that a report list shows columns such as start date and time, end date and time, return code , comments
Improve Print and Email capability so that these components of Spool appear seamless to View users
Provide additional search criteria such as JobID, Error code, Comment, time periods to limit the initial report list.
Delivered - September 25, 2015
Why is this important for you to Know?This enhancement is major event for CA View®. Application Developers, Sysprogs, Operations teams have a need to review spent JCL for various reasons. For example: Need to quickly identify a DD where a job ABENDED. Maybe, Identify when a job started and ended in a user friendly way. The JOB MODE for CA View® now has these features to greatly enhance this critical operations infrastructure management area.
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How do I deliver a flawless experience every time an application touches the mainframe?
In the application economy it’s all about your customers.You need to think about your mainframe reframed.
Connect mobile-to-mainframe applications
Create mainframe infrastructure flexibility
for the future
Unleash the power of data on the mainframe
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CA View®/CA Deliver™ 12.2 Let’s Talk About Job Mode with CA View®
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CA View® Featuring – Job Mode Primary selection criteria
– You acquire access to jobs from the CA View® Primary Menu by entering specifications on the screen fields or by entering the SELECT command on the command input line.
– You can filter the selection list by: Specifying JOB name Specifying JOB identifier Specifying From Last range Specifying From/To Date/Time Specifying Search Date/Time Specifying XCODE Specifying System ID, User ID and User Comments
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CA View® Job Mode – NEW Online Primary Selection Menu
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CA View® – NEW Online Job Mode Selection List Fields
The Job Selection List has multiple panels to scroll left and right. The panels may contain the following information:
Jobname - Name of the job Jobid - JES id of the jobStart Date - Date of job execution Start Time - Time of job execution End Date - End date of the jobEnd Time - End time of the jobSub Date - Submission date of JobSub Time - Submission time of Job
XCODE - Exceptional conditionSystem - System of execution Class - Job Class User Id - User who submitted the job Lines - Sysout/Report lines archivedPages - logical pages archived. Assigned - User assigned to the job. User-Comments - User comment field
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CA View® Job MODE - New Look for Online Job Selection List Mode
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CA View® Job Mode - Online Job Selection List
The full JOB or individual DD’s associated with a Job may be browsed , printed, or emailed.
You can also place a question mark “?” next to the JOB name to get a list of individual DD’s for
the Job.
New Commands
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From the Data Set List, an individual DD may be selected for browse, print, or email.
CA View® Jobs Mode - Online Job Step and DDname List
Jobs that have SYSOUT archived in CA View®. NOTE: only reports associated with the job that have been archived via VIEWSTC, VIEWFSS text collector, VIEWXTD, and VIEWDBB are accessible in JOB mode.
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CA View® – Job Mode New Online Commands
The following select command are supported on the selection list panels
— S – Browse the job or SYSOUT
— J - Print the job or SYSOUT from a background job. The JCL will be submitted if you enter "SUBMIT" or when you exit CA View®.
— JA - Print the job or SYSOUT from a background job via the alternate print panel. The JCL will be submitted if you enter "SUBMIT" or when you exit CA View®.
— P - Print the job or SYSOUT on-line.
— PA - Print the job or SYSOUT on-line via the alternate print panel.
— A – Assign your USERID for follow up on the job (Job Selection List only)
— U – Remove follow up USERID (Job Selection List only)
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CA View® - Jobs Mode – New INIT PARMS For Printing
CA Spool printing has been expanded to support the standard SYSOUT printing commands “P” and “J”. The following initialization parameters can be used to set up this feature:
— CMASPOOL - Specifies the 4-character name of the CA Spool subsystem that is defined in the CA Spool SUBID configuration parameter in member ESFPARM. Syntax: CMASPOOL=SUBSYS
— PRINTTO - Specifies where to route JES print requests for printer device destinations that are not predefined. If the destination is not known to CA Spool, prints to JES destination. Syntax: PRINTTO=[JES|ESF|ESFJES]
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CA View® - Job Mode – New INIT PARMS For EMAIL
New VIEW INIT statements– MAILTO=[ JES | ESF ]
JES - Email to JES destination MAILDEST using OUTPUT statement mail parameters.
ESF - Email to CMASPOOL destination MAILDEST using OUTPUT mail parameters.
– MAILDEST=
Destination - Email destination.
– MAILFROM=[ YES | NO ]
YES - Allow View user to specify MAILFROM.
NO - Disallow MAILFROM parameter.
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CA View® - Jobs MODE Email Panel - Example
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CA View® Job Mode – NEW VIEWBCH Keywords
A new VIEWBCH function has been added to print jobs /PRINTJOB:
– 4 new keywords in addition to the attribute override keywords were added
JOBNAME – Specifies the name of the JOB to print. This keyword is required.
— If none of the optional keywords are provided the most recent job will be
returned.
JOBID – This is job id of the job you want print. It is in the form ABC#####
JOBDATE- This is the date for a given job you want to print. Mm/dd/yyyy.
JOBTIME- This is the time for a given job you want to print. Hh:mm:ss.
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CA View® Job Mode – NEW VIEWGRW Keyword Values The user will be able to run VIEWGRW to extract the jobs metadata. JOB field names
are:
Two samples VIEWGRW08 (List of Jobs) and VIEWGRW09 (List of Jobs and Datasets) were added to CVDEJCL library.
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CA View® - Job Mode New Security Options
Security for Job mode– New resource type and resource name
Resource type of JOB
Resource name of “secid.JOB.jobname.owner
– Owner is userid that submitted job
– Owner allows client to restrict access to users that submitted the job like TSO
– Report authentication still enforced
First requires job access
Second required report access either read for browse or write for print and email.
Third request access to all pages of report
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CA View®/CA Deliver™ 12.2 Working With Other CA Products
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CA View® and Deliver 12.2 and CA Spool™ - Examples
CA Deliver™- Send hardcopy reports to printers managed by CA Spool
CA Deliver™ - Send a email notification that a report has been created
via CA Spool
CA Spool™ - via LPD interface can send Word, Excel, PDF and other
formats to CA View® to be archived and viewed using CA Web Viewer
CA Deliver™ or CA View® - Send report data to CA Spool to be
reformatted into different formats (PDF, Excel)
CA Deliver™ - Send reports to CA Spool where it will send (FTP) that data
to another platform for further processing.
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CA View® and Deliver 12.2 and CA Web Viewer - Examples
CA View® – Online viewing of Text, AFP, Xerox reports, Indexes
CA View® – Automatic report offline recall
CA View® – Mainframe Security is applied
CA View® – Annotations can be added via CA Web Viewer
CA View® – View and Print only the pages the user wants
CA View® – View other report formats stored in CA View® – (PDF, Word, Excel, CSV, PPT, Video, PNG, IMG and others)
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CA View® and CA Deliver™ 12.2 and CA OPS/MVS -Examples
CA View® – Monitor DASD percentage used with OPSMVS
CA View® – Alerting / Action options base on product messages with OPSMVS
CA View® – Can store old OPSLOGS for long-term storage
CA Deliver™ – Monitor status (Up or Down)
CA Deliver™ – Status of Checkpoint performance
CA View®/Deliver™ – Health-Checker Feature
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CA View® and CA Deliver™ 12.2 and Security (CA ACF2, CA TSS, IBM RACF) Examples
CA View® – 14+ Security Resources available
CA View® – Secure a report by Report ID, Index Value
CA Deliver™ – Secure update access to certain jobs capture
CA View® – Mainframe Security applied to CA Web Viewer
CA View® – Apply role or group base security for report access.
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CA View® and CA Deliver™ 12.2 and CA Big Data Solutions Examples
CA View® – CA Metrics SMF user tracking stats
CA View® – VIEWGRW reporting stats
CA Deliver™ – RMOGRW reporting stats
CA View® – Performance monitoring, DASD, Tape usage stats
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Mainframe is Made for the “Application Economy!”
SOURCES: Decipher Research Study 2012; Infrastructure & Operation Trends Survey – Enterprise Systems Media, March 2015
48%Actively delivering new business services that
engage mainframe systems of record
81% Mainframe is strategic to current and
future IT plans
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Final Thoughts!
CA Output Management solutions are alive and being developed aggressively!
New features are being considered to enhance the solution to be more flexible and
offer more business solution options.
Enabling our web interface to be able to run on any platform and mobile device in the
“APP centric world of today and the future”.
Developing CA Output Solutions to interact with the third party Content Management
solutions.
Providing best in class support and services to help CA Clients provide more options to
“Delight” their customers
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Rebecca Alexander – Product Manager
Richard Resnick – Senior Architect, Mainframe Solutions CenterRodrick Penson – Senior Principal Consultant, CA Pre-Sales, Mainframe
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