What’s new in CA Datacom

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What’s New in CA Datacom®
Kevin Shuma, VP Product Management
CA Technologies
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Abstract
This session provides a high-level review of the new functionality and capabilities provided in the
latest CA Datacom® product releases. Included will be a brief discussion of the CA Datacom® M3A
program.
Covered in the session will be new enhancements to CA Datacom®/DB, CA Datacom®
Datadictionary™, CA Datacom® SQL, CA Datacom® CICS Services, CA Datacom® Server, and CA
Ideal™ for CA Datacom®
Kevin Shuma
CA Technologies
VP, Product
Management

Agenda
AGILE DELIVERY
CA DATACOM®/DB, DATADICTIONARY™ AND CICS SERVICES
CA DATACOM SQL AND SERVER
CA IDEAL™ AND CA DATACOM/DB METACOBOL SUPPORT
CA IDEAL AND CA DATACOM/DB METACOBOL SUPPORT
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SUMMARY6
M3A SERVICES5

Agile Delivery
§ In the last 18 months the team has delivered:
– 24 significant enhancements, along with many other smaller
enhancements
§ Closed out new development 14.02 and 15.0
§ Included a Service Update for 15.0
§ Delivered Datacom AD 15.0
– Started a new incremental release: 15.1
§ All items in this presentation marked 15.1 are planned and may not be
available for user validation at this time
CA Datacom® Team Delivering Functionality in Small Consumable Feature Sets

CA Datacom®/DB and CA Datacom® Datadictionary™
§ Version 14.02 and above
– Online Fast Compress
– Block Quit Strategy
– OLREORG Reporting
– Active-Active/Active-Query
– Elimination of “other” GP CPU consumption in zIIP environments
§ Online Block Size Alter (15.1 - In progress)
§ Lots more …..
Database Engine, Database Utilities and Metadata Dictionary

CA Datacom/DB and CA Datacom Datadictionary – V14.02
§ Online Fast Compress
– Code name -Table Alter 24 (TA24)
– First (only) option – Online Fast Compress
– Alter definition and every row from one compression option to another
– Discussed/demoed in session MFX94S
§ Block quit strategy
– Code name - Fast ADDIT
– Relates to finding space for new row
– Usually with compressed tables, small vs large rows sizes
– Long-term plan is to replace with new data space option

§ OLREORG Reporting
– Adding functionality to provide progress report when utility fails
§ OLREORG DSOP=0 and not enough space available
Date: 10/04/2016 ******************************************************************************** Page:
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* CA Datacom/DB *
Time: 21.51.41 * General Utility * Version:
14.0
* COPYRIGHT (C) 1990-2011 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. *
Base: 400 ******************************************************************************** Directory:
QAMUF4
Rows processed - 89,693 * Incomplete due to RC 07 *
Rows moved - 82,757
Exclusive control conflicts - 0
Empty blocks used - 4,017
Blocks in use by table UNC - * Unknown due to RC 07 *
DB13001E - UNEXPECTED RETURN CODE 07 (1) NO MORE EMPTY BLOCKS AVAILABLE
DB10045E - ABNORMAL TERMINATION DUE TO ERROR(S)

§ Active-Query
– First phase of Active-Active
– Two MUFs – “One Update” and “One Read-only”
§ Both have their own DASD (set of matching databases)
§ May be geographically dispersed
§ Read-Only MUF kept in sync by software
– Change Data Capture (CDC) on Update MUF
– Send function processes CDC changes into MQ Messages sent to Read-Only
– Receive function processes MQ changes into updates on Read-Only MUF
– Acknowledgement sent back to Sender

Live Data Replicated Data
Replication
Source
MUF
Replication
Target
MUF
DBCDSPR
(Sender)
DBCDRPR
(Receiver)
MQT1 MQT2
Queue Queue
TCP/IP
Temp
Save
Temp
Save
Real-time updates Replicated updates
Active-Query Overview

§ Active-Query
– New MQ Transport Service provides MQ wrapper so that sender and
receiver don’t have to have MQ knowledge
– CDC used to capture changes at source
– Sender used to package source changes and send (over MQ) to
receiver
§ Once sent deletes changes from source CDC
– Receiver used to take packaged changes from MQ and apply to target
MUF
§ Once applied deletes package from MQ
– Ability to switch roles in a few seconds
Active-Query Summary

§ Reduce GP improve zIIP on light to medium use systems
– zIIP usage was good, but we noticed an abnormality – “other SRB”
Elimination of “Other” GP CPU Consumption in zIIP Environments

§ Step 1 – Add statistics to MUF to capture “other SRB”
– Recalculate zIIP offload with other SRB added in
Elimination of “Other” GP CPU Consumption in zIIP Environments (Cont’d)

Elimination of “Other” GP CPU Consumption in zIIP Environments (Cont’d)
§ Step 2 – Rewrite zIIP processing code to reduce “other SRB”
– MUF Special Option – SMPTASK_USING_IEAV YES
– Other SRB returned to pre-zIIP values
For light to medium loads
• zIIP offloads stayed
the same
• GP CPU dropped
• Overall TCO improves
Recommended for all
small to medium shops

CA Datacom/DB and CA Datacom Datadictionary
§ Online Block Size Alter (15.1 - In progress)
– Allows user to change the block size on a data area without
interrupting user access to the tables in the area
§ Block size changes can be done to improve performance and DASD
utilization
§ Built on the “online utility” foundation already in place for online reorg,
online move, online compress and online defrag
§ Available for customer validation testing
§ Offers an alternative way to do online reorganizations

CA Datacom® CICS Services v14.02 and Above
§ Version 14.0 added multiple enhancements to support multi-
TCB environments
– CICS Syncpoints, OPENAPI for threadsafe (L8s and L9s), fully reentrant
code, serialized resource use to comply with OPENAPI protocols
– As a result in certain “heavy conversation” modes performance was
negatively affected
§ Version 14.02 has added multiple changes to improve
performance for all systems not just the affected systems
Allows CICS Transactions to Access the Database

CA Datacom® CICS Services v14.02 and Above (Cont’d)
§ Version 14.02 includes
– Eliminated overhead to create update TRUEs
– Reduced storage (memory) footprint to R11 levels
– Eliminated a GETMAIN/FREEMAIN for every database request
– New option PGMNAME=TASK/RQST to remove CICS overhead
– New option SKPSYNC to reduce use of SYNCPOINT when not needed
§ Multiple improvements
– Made all tracing functions optional
– Rewrote thread management to improve processing
– Added EOT of transaction functionality to improve “heavy request”
transactions
Allows CICS Transactions to Access the Database

CA Datacom® SQL and CA Datacom® Server
§ Server mainframe component
– DB_THREADS – DB Queue Depth/Thread Utilization Report
– Failover without Interruption (15.0)
– CAICCI not required
– TRUSERx – SQL Syntax Trace
– CODEPAGE=
– Comments in Server Mainframe Startup Options (15.0)
Improve Access and Functionality for Modern Applications

CA Datacom SQL and CA Datacom Server (Cont’d)
§ Server distributed component (JDBC/ODBC clients)
– Windows updates via InstallShield installers
– Windows 64bit address handling (Large Address Aware) (15.0 soon)
– JDBC Client Info methods (15.0 only)
– Read-only access to Datacom ODBC Data Sources in ODBC
Administrator
– JDBC and ODBC Batch Processing (15.0)
– CCI/PC NOT Required

§ SQL Plan versioning support (COBOL only)
– New PLANAME options
§ PLANAME=@TIMESTAMP
– Creates the PLAN name by concatenating the program ID with YYMMDDHHMM
§ PLANAME=planname@TIMESTAMP
– Creates the PLAN name by concatenating the ‘planname’ value with
YYMMDDHHMM
– ‘planname’ must begin with an alphabetic character and be less than or equal to
8 characters
– Plan names or program IDs that are less than 8 characters will be padded on the
right with underscores

§ SQL Table Expressions
– Currently in progress in 15.1
§ Eliminates the need for an application program to process multiple queries
to obtain the desired result, greatly extending the processing power of a
single query
§ First step is materialization of views
§ Provides infrastructure for table expressions with temporary materialized
table
§ This eliminates restrictions on views that require a temporary materialized
table
– Example – both view and query use GROUP BY

CA Datacom SQL and Server (Cont’d)
§ SQL Table Expressions (cont’d)
– New DATACOM_OPTIMIZATION special register to force join method
§ Example: Force merge on materialized table to eliminate cost of repeated
sequential search

§ SQL Table Expressions (cont’d)
– Types of Table Expressions (TE)
§ Nested - “in line” view use a select statement as a table in the FROM clause
§ Row - result set is a single row
§ Scalar - result set is a single column
§ Common (CTE) - a nested TE that is created ahead of time and referenced
by a name (useful for TEs used multiple times)
§ Recursive - uses special UNION syntax with 1st subselect as the root CTE,
and 2nd subselect recursively references the CTE
§ Full Select - adds UNION, ORDER BY, and FETCH FIRST to most places a
subselect can be used (views, subqueries, table expressions, etc.)

CA Ideal™ for CA Daatacom®
§ Ideal
– Online refresh of SC00TRAN (15.1 – In Progress)
§ Refreshable user terminal transaction table
– Separated from SC00TRAN, which remains for CA-supplied ones
– Uses existing macro, new name
– SC00INIT will assume anything not in SC00TRAN is Ideal
– Ideal will look up in SCUMTRAN if not already found
4GL Language

CA Datacom/DB MetaCOBOL Support
§ Support for MetaCOBOL in CA Datacom/DB V15.1
– In progress for V15.1
– Delivered with Core products
– Module replacement for fixes
– Identifies as 15.1 to match DB/DD/…
– No longer requires DDSRTLM changes
3GL Language

CA Datacom/DB MetaCOBOL Support (Cont’d)
3GL Language

Migration Path 1 – Remove MetaCOBOL From Environment

Migration path 2 – Acquire MetaCOBOL Support from Datacom/DB and Run Tests

§ Customer benefits
– Delivery with CA Datacom/DB base product
– Ongoing support for new platforms (same as Datacom/DB)
– Integrated QA with CA Datacom/DB
– Long term direction
§ Customer concerns
– Need to do adequate testing, each group or system should be tested
– Old CA MetaCOBOL code may not have been maintained in years
– User COBOL code may not have been compiled in years
– Need to find any user defined/added macros
3GL Language

M3A Services- Monitor, Measure, Manage and Alert
Augment and Enhance Exiting Resources to Support Your CA IDMS™/Datacom Environments
Challenge Solution Benefits
§ Growing CA Datacom and CA IDMS™
DBA skill concern as retirement reduces
available technical workforce
§ Reduction of skilled employees
represents a loss in the library of
knowledge used to keep mission critical
Datacom and CA IDMS systems up and
running
§ Skilled remote technician to
augment your current resource
pool to run and maintain your CA
Datacom and CA IDMS
environments.
§ Activities include monitoring
production environments,
establishing performance baselines,
make recommendations as needed
around performance tuning DB
expansion and more.
§ Provides a simple solution to augment
and enhance your CA Datacom and CA
IDMS environments
§ Flexible options to augment your
workforce by providing resources
needed to manage and maintain
mission critical systems
§ Proven Experience
§ Access to strong resource pool
§ Remote access for low cost alternative

Our Approach
Establish a performance baseline that is used to measure and track
production environments
Monitor
Deliver daily monitoring activities within the production environment
of your CA MF solution
Manage Day to day administration and operational tasks and system functions
of your CA MF solution
Alert
Assistance with events requiring immediate technical attention that
provides integration of CA Support and Services
Measure

CA M3A Service
Start-up activities – Initial interview, inventory, performance baseline and site report
Daily Activities
– Review current system activity, recent activity logs, recent table
activity, alert on required corrective activity, and record activity
Monthly Activities – Repeat measurement activities, update site report
Quarterly Activities – Review maintenance availability
Staffing – Primary and backup M3A technician
Internal – CA Support Engineers
External – CA Partners – Trained and Certified by CA
Coordination
– Single repository for data
– Development and support synchronized with M3A Service
technicians
Fee – Yearly based retainer plus T&E

Summary
§ Over the last 18 months the CA Datacom team working
directly with our validation customers have delivered key
enhancements to:
– Improve functionality
– Improve uptime
– Improve TCO
– Provide needed skills

Recommended Sessions
SESSION # TITLE DATE/TIME
MFX92S Strategy and Vision for CA Datacom and CA Ideal 11/16/2016 at 12:45 pm
MFX93S What’s new in CA Datacom 11/16/2016 at 1:45 pm
MFX94S Reducing TCO with Datacom Compression (Presspack) 11/16/2016 at 3:00 pm
MFX95SA Modernizing the CA Datacom data – SQL Access Part I 11/16/2016 at 3:45 pm
MFX95SB Modernizing the CA Datacom data – SQL Access Part II 11/16/2016 at 4:30 pm
MFX96S CA Datacom/AD Installation/Upgrade and Maintenance 11/17/2016 at 12:45 pm
MFX97S
CA Datacom/AD Report Utilization, and
information gather for Support
11/17/2016 at 1:45 pm
MFX98S
Using SYSVIEW ™ to monitor and measure your CA
Datacom environment – AD and DB
11/17/2016 at 3:00 pm
MFX99S Birds of a Feather/Stump the Techie! 11/17/2016 at 3:45 pm

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