Tech Talk: Five Simple Steps to a More Powerful Database Experience

Tech Talk:
Five Simple Steps to a More Powerful
Database Experience
Sheila Miller and Kevin Shuma
Mainframe
CA Technologies
Product Managers, CA Databases
MFT11T

2 © 2015 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.@CAWORLD #CAWORLD
Abstract
This interactive discussion is for customers who have
recently upgraded, are currently upgrading or considering
upgrading to the most current production release. As
technology evolves, the way people work continues to
change. To make an impact, you need to think creatively and
innovate boldly. Join us to hear about five simple steps
towards a more powerful CA IDMS™ and CA Datacom®
mainframe database experience—that help to improve
performance, scalability, platform support, standards
compliance and usability.
Sheila Miller
Kevin Shuma
CA Technologies
Product Managers,
CA Databases

Five Simple Steps
STEP 1: PROTECT YOUR INVESTMENT
STEP 2: MODERNIZE
STEP 3: UP YOUR PERFORMANCE GAME
STEP 4: GET MORE ROI
STEP 5: UP THE ANALYTICS QUOTIENT
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2
3
4
5

Step 1: Protect your investment
with M3A service—monitor, measure,
manage, alert.

CA M3A Service
Monitor, Measure, Manage and Alert
BENEFIT
• 70% of the worlds critical data resides on the mainframe with much
of it housed in traditional databases
• Growing CA IDMS & Datacom DBA skill concern as retirement is
reducing available technical workforce.
• Fewer skilled employees represents a loss in the library of
knowledge used to keep mission critical CA IDMS and CA Datacom
systems up and running.
• CA provides a skilled remote technician to augment your current
resource pool to run and maintain your environments.
• Activities include monitoring production environments, establish
performance baselines to measure and track production, makes
recommendations as needed around performance tuning, DB
expansion and more…
• Provides a simple solution to augment and enhance customers CA IDMS & CA Datacom environments
• Flexibility—provides flexibility—various options to augment your CA IDMS & CA Datacom workforce by providing you with the resources needed to manage and
maintain the mission critical systems that serve the business
• Proven experience—access to CA IDMS and CA Datacom experienced M3A technical staff and knowledge base
• Resource pool—access to a pool of resources to insure there will always be resources available to assist in a critical situation
• Remote access—a low-cost alternative to dedicated on-site resources that allows for the “partial use” of a technical resource
PAIN
SOLUTION
Augment and
enhance existing
resources to support
your CA IDMS™ &
CA Datacom®
environments.

CA Datacom M3A Service
Start-up activities
– Perform 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 updated site report.
Quarterly Activities – Review CA Datacom maintenance availability.
Staffing – Designate primary and backup M3A technician.
Internal – Designate CA Datacom and support engineers.
External – Assign CA Datacom Partners—trained and certified by CA.
Coordination
– Determine Single repository for data.
– Utilize CA Services Project Management Web site.
– Develop and support synchronized with M3A Service technicians.
Fee – Apply yearly based retainer plus T&E.

Step 2: Modernize with CA IDMS &
CA Datacom Modernization Suite.

Modernization Suite—SQL and Server Options
 Customer Value
– SQL and server options enable modern development using today’s skills.
– Java™, Windows® and Web app dev tools access CA Datacom/CA IDMS data just like any
other relational DB.
– No rework is needed to take advantage of popular tools such as:
 Business Objects, Cognos, Crystal reports, Eclipse BIRT, MS-ACCESS, MS-EXCEL, etc.
– Integrate modern apps, BI, business analytics, Web services into the app portfolio.
– FREE TRIAL: Freemium/limited usage SQL Web Connect is included in Datacom 14.0 &
IDMS 18.5.
 Customer Benefits
– Avoid costs.
– Improved availability to open systems platforms via server option.
– Manage mainframe data with talent you already have.

Step 3: Step up your performance game.
CA IDMS Performance Monitor
CA SYSVIEW® Performance Management
CA Mainframe Application Tuner

CA IDMS Performance Monitor
 CA IDMS Performance Monitor provides real-time monitoring
for CA IDMS
– Monitor all CA IDMS systems in one LPAR—key performance measurements.
– Monitor CA IDMS systems from one console.
– Monitor for resource utilization, problem areas and resource contention.
– Cancel “problem” tasks from CA IDMS Performance Monitor or CA SYSVIEW.
– Avoid costs by detecting and correcting problem situations before they occur.
– Baseline and predict future resource utilization and capacity needs.
– Remotely monitor and tune CA IDMS environments.
– Avoid losses due to “Production Availability.”

CA SYSVIEW® Performance Management
 Customer Value
– Provides real-time monitoring for your entire z/OS® environment
– Ideal for customers who want to monitor a number of systems including:
 z/OS system resources, Datacom/DB, IDMS/DB, CICS… and other resources
– Cost avoidance by detecting and correcting problem situations before they occur
– Ability to baseline resource utilization and better predict growth and capacity
needs
– Improved ability for remote monitoring and tuning of CA Datacom environments
Use of CA SYSVIEW with CA IDMS requires the Performance Monitor option

CA Mainframe Application Tuner
 Monitor & measure COBOL and:
– CA Ideal™ for CA Datacom applications running in CA Datacom
– CA IDMS ADS applications running in the CA IDMS
 On demand z/OS sampling for any application
 CPU execution/delay activities for program, subsystem, database and I/O
 Pinpoint code and stored procedure inefficiencies to the source level
 Comprehensive detail reporting for system support experts
 Proactive automated measurements based historical trends or program changes
 Drill-down ISPF Interface for z/OS data usable by application development, database and quality
assurance personnel which presents performance data in graphical form
– Quickly measure application performance and pinpoint problems and delays.
– Streamlines application life cycle management.
– Enhance ability to maintain & manage business critical legacy application code.

Step 4: Get more ROI with
CA IDMS/Datacom Presspack.

CA Datacom and CA IDMS Presspack
 Customer Value
– Data compression can result in significant savings in disk space requirements
which translates into dollar savings in monthly rentals, maintenance, floor
space and channel costs.
– Help reduce backup/archival processing and improve data security.
– Compression efficiency makes it an ideal tool for compressing large-volume
databases.

CA Datacom and CA IDMS Presspack
– Access new ONLINE COMPRESS capability (CA Datacom only).
– Fully zIIP-able means our compression utilizes the extremely efficient, low-cost
zIIP engines to compression and decompression processing.
– Reduce DASD footprint by 30-70 percent—save real dollars.
– Improve memory use within the database do all region.
– Benchmark tests have shown that converting an uncompressed Datacom table
to compression saves enough physical IO CPU to offset CPU used to do
compression—but the CPU is now zIIP which is significantly cheaper.

Step 5: Up the analytics quotient with
vStorm connect data streaming for big data.

vStorm Connect Data Streaming for Big Data
 Customer Value:
– Customers need to “share” existing critical business data for data analytics
platforms.
– Cooperative processing model with Veristorm allows CA IDMS data can be uplifted
as needed to the various big data platforms.
– Cost avoidance:
 By allowing existing reliable systems to continue doing their work you save money.
 Using big data platforms to store large amounts of data (cheaply) for consumption by analytics engines
you reduce costs.
– New analytics possible using key big data concepts such as:
 Point-in-time data allows a customer to see data content at some point in the past.
 Fraud analysis is available.
 Business compliance analysis is available.

Participate in the CA IDMS IUA/EIUA Community
communities.ca.com/community/ca-idms-iua-eiua

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1/18/2015 at 2:00 pm
Location: Mainframe Theater
MFT11T
Five Simple Steps to a More Powerful Database
Experience
1/18/2015 at 12:15 pm
Location: Tech Talk 6

Must See Demos
Maximize Your
Mainframe
Database Value
CA IDMS CA Datacom
Mainframe Area
Station: MNFSE002
Unleash the
Power of
Mainframe Data
vStorm Connect Data
Streaming for Big Data
Mainframe Area
Station: MNFSE001
Maximize Your
DB2 Tools
Investment
DB2 Tools
Mainframe Area
Station: MNFSE003
Performance
Analytics
for DB2
DB2 Analytics
Mainframe Area
Station: MNFSE004

Follow On Conversations At…
Smart Bar
CA IDMS/CA Datacom
Mainframe Area on
Expo Floor
Tech Talks
CA IDMS/CA Datacom
Mainframe Area on
Expo Floor

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