Pre-Con Ed: CA Testing Tools Educational Session (Part 1 of 3): Learn, Engage and Grow your Mainframe Testing Toolset with CA File Master Plus

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Learn, Engage and Grow Your Mainframe
Testing Toolset with CA File Master™ Plus
Michael DuBois
VP, Product Management
MFX58EA
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Abstract
Learn, engage and grow with the CA Testing Tools community of
practitioners. In this educational session, we will cover the latest
updates to the CA File Master Plus product, as well as common use
cases that are surfacing across our Sprint Reviews that are helping our
users save time, save money and become more productive to deliver
high-quality mainframe applications.
Michael
DuBois
CA Technologies
VP, Product
Management

Agenda
MAINFRAME DEVOPS STRATEGY
CA FILE MASTER PLUS PRODUCT OVERVIEW
QUESTIONS?
TECHNOLOGY AND ARCHITECTURE GOALS
PRODUCT ROADMAP
WHAT’S NEW IN RELEASE 10?
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2
3
4
5
6

Mainframe DevOps Strategy

Development Deployment & OperationalTesting
Challenges to Delivering Innovations … Continuously
Developers Release
Team
Operations
TESTBUILD DEPLOY
Testers
OPERATE
Deploy to
Production
Cultural
Barriers,
Large Code
Monoliths
Constrained
Environments
Test
Environment
Provisioning
Challenges
Manual
Testing and
Scripting
Incomplete
Test Cases
and Data
Cross-Enterprise
Delivery,
Coordination
and Visibility
Lack of
Integrated
Toolsets
IDLE TIME DELAYS
Code/Integrate/
Build
Functional
& UA Testing
Performance
Testing
defect
RE-WORK
defect defect
DELAYS DELAYS
RE-WORK

Introducing Mainframe DevOps Solution
CA offers Solutions in 4 key areas to foster principles of Agile and DevOps
Continuous MonitoringContinuous TestingAgile Development Continuous Delivery
Develop and maintain
mainframe applications
with agile and modern
methodologies,
toolsets and coding
languages
TEST
Early & Often
DEVELOP
Swiftly
DEPLOY
Reliably
OPERATE
Efficiently
Continuous Feedback Loop
Reduce test cycle times
and costs of mainframe
testing for better time
to market and
mainframe economics
Remove the barriers to
business agility on the
mainframe, with
automation to reduce
time to market and
manage skills gaps
Unify monitoring and
performance
management across
mobile and mainframe
teams for better MTTR
and lower skills costs

Product Overview

Product Overview
§ CA File Master Plus helps application programmers
with data management by simplifying the data-related
activities they perform every day.
§ CA File Master Plus supports z/OS data
(VSAM, Sequential Files, Partitioned Data Sets),
IMS and DB2 for z/OS data.
§ Data management is available from TSO/ISPF,
in batch or from a modern Eclipse-based user
interface delivered as either a standalone (RCP)
application or as a plug-in to Eclipse or
Eclipse-based IDEs.
§ Easy data mapping and powerful data filtering enables
customized data views for easy problem resolution.
What Is CA File Master Plus?
Data
Management
for the
Application
Lifecycle
Create
Test
Data
Repair
Corrupted
Data
Audit
And
Compliance
Management
Reports

§ Application Developers
§ Systems Programmers
§ Database Administrators
Product Overview
CA File Master Plus
Business Problems
Addressed Key CapabilitiesPersonas
§ Application Quality
§ Continuous Availability of
Production Data
§ Audit and Compliance
§ Management Reporting
§ Mainframe Skills Shortage
§ Robust production data editing
§ File copy, compare, print,
search, update, and reformat
§ VTOC, PDS and VSAM Utilities
§ Load library reporting
§ XML generation
§ Database extract/reload
§ Test data generation
§ Traditional ISPF or Modern
Eclipse User Interface

Technology and Architecture Goals

Technology and Product Architecture Goals
CA File Master Plus
Technology
Goals
§ Currency & exploitation – z/OS, IMS and DB2 for z/OS
§ Simplify and Modernize
§ Improve competitiveness via integration and ideation
§ Expand to new platforms and data sources
Product
Architecture
Goals
§ Simplify installation, deployment and configuration
§ Improve product performance
§ Integrate with other CA solutions
§ Enhance Eclipse UIs

What’s New In Release 10?

§ Streamlined Installation
– Single PAX file delivers all three CA File Master Plus products
§ Also includes one common FMID for the Eclipse RCP and plug-ins
– Install once into common target and distribution libraries
§ Option still exists to install separately if necessary
– Common configuration and deployment using CA CSM
– Easier maintenance – fewer artifacts to manage
– Saves precious time and reduces duplicate effort!
– Product licensing remains unchanged

§ Combined Eclipse RCP
– One common Eclipse-based graphical UI with three separate
perspectives
§ CA File Master Plus for managing z/OS data
§ CA File Master Plus for IMS for managing IMS data
§ CA File Master Plus for DB2 for z/OS for managing DB2 data
– One installation, one desktop icon, one application
– Use all three perspectives at once
– Host communication using one common server
– Product licensing remains unchanged

§ Integration with Standarware COPE for IMS
– CA File Master Plus for IMS V10 supports the following IMS data
operations in Standardware COPE virtualized environments:
§ Browse
§ Edit
§ Print
§ Read
§ Update
§ Extract
§ Reload

§ Automatic IMS Edit Session Timeout
– Protects against the adverse effects of abandoned IMS edit sessions
under TSO/ISPF
– Initiates automatic session timeout just before the TSO times out
– Gracefully terminates the IMS connection and exits the session
– Uncommitted changes are discarded
– Avoids problems with the IMS control region

§ Saving and Restoring Dynamic Selection Criteria
– Supported by CA File Master Plus under ISPF
– New CREATE and REPLACE primary commands writes selection data
from the dynamic area to the default Selection Criteria Parm File (from
option 0.3)
§ Option 1 - Browse
§ Option 2 - Edit
§ Option 3.3 - Copy
§ Option 3.8 - Search
§ Option 3.9 - Update
§ Option 3.10 - Compare
§ Option 3.11 - Reformat
§ Option 4 - Print

§ Online LOADINFO Reporting
– Reporting was previously available only in batch
– New utility menu option 3.13
– Full support for existing reporting capabilities
§ Load Module Map or CSECT cross-reference
§ Include/Exclude for Modules or CSECTs
– Easily save LOADINFO reports permanently
– Supports all standard generation modes
§ O - Online execution and viewing
§ E – Edit JCL
§ S - Submit job

§ Online VOLINFO (VTOC Extent Mapping) Reporting
– Reporting was previously available only in batch
– New utility menu option 3.14
– Full support for existing reporting capabilities
§ Volume information
§ Volume and extent information
§ Free space map
– Easily save VOLINFO reports permanently
– Supports all standard generation modes
§ O - Online execution and viewing
§ E – Edit JCL
§ S - Submit job

§ XML Generation
– New batch utility enables export of z/OS data to other platforms and
applications
§ V10 delivers this as a batch utility (JCL only, no ISPF interface)
– Supports z/OS input data types
§ VSAM
§ Sequential Files or Partitioned Data Set Members
– Uses standard layouts
§ COBOL or PL/I copy members
§ Custom Record Layouts

§ Segmented Record Mapping
– Layout mapping for browsing records comprised of one or more
smaller segments
§ Additional capabilities will follow including edit, print, selection criteria, etc.
– Uses an extension to the Custom Record Layout feature
§ Define each segment type as a custom layout
§ Build segmented records layouts from smaller segment layouts
– Each individual record may be uniquely mapped
– Very flexible - segment types, lengths and repeat counts can be defined
§ By fields within the segment
§ By fields within the base segment
§ By the previous segment

§ Integration with CA Test Data Manager
– Enables easier, more automated masking of IMS data
§ No logging onto TSO
§ No manual uploading or downloading of artifacts
§ No editing or submitting JCL
– New RESTful API to access CA File Master Plus services
§ Delivered as a common service
– User interface modifications to CA Test Data Manager
§ One user interface for data masking

§ Technical Currency
– IMS 14
– Eclipse Mars
– RDz 9.5 and IDz 14.0
– 64-bit plug-ins

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Mainframe and Workload Automation
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Mike Dubois
VP, Product Management
michael.dubois@ca.com

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