CA Gen Exploration – What's New and Cool in Application Development

CA Gen Exploration – What's New and Cool
in Application Development
John Carter
Mainframe
CA Technologies
Product Owner – CA Gen
MFX27E

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Abstract
Hear how integrated modeling and code
generation from CA Gen help you to deliver
platform-independent applications on
distributed and mainframe that run your
mission-critical processes. Join us for a technical
deep dive, learn about new product
enhancements and watch a demo.
John Carter
CA Technologies
Product Owner – CA
Gen

Agenda
APP DEV ORGANIZATION
APP DEV PORTFOLIO STRATEGIC DIRECTION
Q & A
AGILE @ CA
CA GEN ROADMAP – RECENT AND PLANNED RELEASES
DEMOS
1
2
3
4
5
6

App Dev Organization

Application Development Portfolio
Strategic Direction

 Listened to Customers, Partners, and CA Management
 Three primary concerns/issues
– We have too many products
– They’re not integrated
– They’re not building the kinds of applications needed today
 While continuing to sustain our legacy products, undertaken a
strategy to simplify, integrate, and enhance a core set of our
current products to be building the kind of applications
needed today
Strategy Formulation

Software Change Management
Application Development
Meeting the Needs of the Application Developer in Today’s Mobile World
Create code assets and manage software change
CA Endevor® SCM CA Harvest SCM
CA File Master™ CA InterTest™
Distributed
developer
Develop mobile/Web front-end logic and new user experience
Incorporate on-premise
and cloud application
services
Mobile
developer
Cloud
Services
System
programmer
DBA
Leverage and extend
back-end application logic and data sources
CA Gen
Mainframe
Developer
CAAppServicesOrchestrator
CA Mainframe
Application Tuner
CA SymDump
Planned
Available

Provide Portfolio Integration
APPLICATION DELIVERY
APPLICATION
DEVELOPMENT
CHARTER
STORIES
RELEASE PLAN
DESIGN
CA Service
Virtualization
CA Release
Automation
CA APM / CA UIM
CA CLARITY
CA GEN / CA PLEX
App Services Orchestrator
CA FILE MASTER
PLUS
CA INTERTEST
CA SERVICE DESK
BUILD
IDEATION
FEEDBACK
MODEL
TEST
DEPLOYMONITOR
CA ENDEVOR SCM CA HARVEST SCM
DEVELOP

APPLICATION
DEVELOPMENT
CHARTER
STORIES
RELEASE PLAN
DESIGN
CA Service
Virtualization
CA Release
Automation
CA APM / CA UIM
CA CLARITY
CA GEN / CA PLEX
CA FILE MASTER
PLUS
CA INTERTEST
CA SERVICE DESK
BUILD
IDEATION
FEEDBACK
MODEL
TEST
DEPLOYMONITOR
DEVELOP
SOFTWARE CHANGE MANAGER

APPLICATION
DEVELOPMENT
CHARTER
STORIES
RELEASE PLAN
DESIGN
CA Service
Virtualization
CA Release
Automation
CA APM / CA UIM
CA CLARITY
CA GEN / CA PLEX
CA FILE MASTER
PLUS
CA INTERTEST
CA SERVICE DESK
BUILD
IDEATION
FEEDBACK
MODEL
TEST
DEPLOYMONITOR
DEVELOP
CA APPLICATION LIFECYCLE CONDUCTOR

Building the Right Kinds of Applications
Application
Development
leveraging the
Mainframe
Application
Development for
the Mainframe
Legacy and
Declining
New and
Growing
The NEW Market for MF Application Development:
•Enterprises differentiate by providing services closer to the customer via mobile and web apps
• They utilize the Mainframe as the “System of Record” at the heart of the Dynamic Data Center
•Application developers are rapidly building new mobile and web applications that access Mainframe
systems, their associated databases and application logic
• Much of this access is being provided through web services

 Evolve to better support web services
– New action diagram statement
 Integrate with other CA products
– CA Application Lifecycle Conductor
– CA API Gateway
Strategy Implications for CA Gen

 Use CA Gen and/or other CA or third party products to expose
backend services via web services
 Use cloud based services
– Some approved, some not
– Security constraints
– Availability concerns
CA Gen Integration with CA API Gateway

 Application gateway for exposing, securing and managing
backend applications, network systems or infrastructure via
APIs
 Opens data and services to partners, developers, mobile apps,
cloud services and smart devices
 CA Gen 8.5 Incremental Release 3 provides this capability to
easily publish CA Gen SOAP web services to the CA API
Gateway

Google
(REST)
Twitter
(REST)
GS1
(SOAP)
PS1
(SOAP)
CA API Gateway (App Repository)

CA App Services Orchestrator
Google
(REST)
Twitter
(REST)
GS1
(SOAP)
PS1
(SOAP)
CA API Gateway (App Repository)
CA App Services Orchestrator
GS1
(SOAP)
GS1
(REST )

Agile @ CA

Influencing Our Roadmap
Agile Development
 Submit your ideas on
communities.ca.com
 Vote & comment on ideas
that are important to you
 CA Product Management
reviews ideas and updates
status as they move
through the lifecycle
 “Currently Planned” idea
status indicates inclusion
in Agile Backlog or
Product Roadmap
Take the opportunity to influence our product development.
Help ensure that we deliver is what you need and want.
CA Communities Ideation
 Register to participate in:
– Monthly Reviews with Live
Demos
– Private - Members Only -
Online Community
– Pre-Release Onsite Testing
and Support (Beta)
 How to register:
https://validate.ca.com
Customer Validation

Ideas – communities.ca.com

Support – Incremental and Complete Releases
8.0 IE1 IE2
8.5
Complete
IE1
Complete
IR2
Complete
8.6
Announce
EOS
Complete

CA Gen Roadmap
Recent Releases

Recent Releases
CA Gen 8.0
 Release each of last three years
– CA Gen 8.0 May 2010
– Interim Enhancement - 1 April 2011
– Interim Enhancement - 2 January 2012
 Interim Enhancements (IE) added functionality to the active
release
 Over 23 certifications to date for CA Gen 8.0 keeping the
release relevant
 End of Service announced August 31, 2016

Features in CA Gen 8.0
Slide 1 of 2
 Support Dynamic RI Triggers for Blockmode and Servers
 Created zLib for Blockmode and Servers
 Multi-socket listener
 DB2 package bind enhancements
 Multi-row fetches
 Larger models and subsets
 New READ / READ EACH statement relational operators

Slide 2 of 2
 Identity columns (auto number)
 Compatible release runtimes
 Gen Studio
 Web Enhancements
– Web View

Multi-Row Fetch
 Default is to not generate a Multiple
Row Fetch
 Option to use the value of the
targeted group view to specify the
number of rows to be returned
 Specify a range of 2 to 32,767 rows to
be returned

Larger Models and Subsets
 Prior to this change, you could only download models and/or
subsets containing fewer than 64,000 of any object type
 Examples of object types include;
– Views
– Attributes
 After this change, you can download models and/or subsets
containing as many as 1,000,000 of any object type

New READ / READ EACH statement relational operators

New READ / READ EACH statement BETWEEN operators

New READ / READ EACH statement IN operators

Identity Columns (aka Auto Number)

Gen Studio

Features in CA Gen 8.0 Interim Enhancement – 1
 Certifications
– Visual Studio 2010
– Mozilla Firefox
– JBoss
 Web View UI Customization
 Support Dynamic RI Triggers for Batch
 Support for zLib for Batch
 Performance improvements in z/OS Batch Processing

 Support 64-bit Windows Servers
 Custom Proxies and Web Services
 Increased CFB Limit from 32K to 16MB (except for Mainframe)

Features in CA Gen 8.0 IE2
Gen Studio – Custom Proxies and Web Services

CFB Extension
 Increased the amount of customer data that can be sent
between CA Gen clients and Distributed Servers using
Common Format Buffer (CFB) from 32K to 16MB
– Windows
– Unix & Linux (TCP/IP, MQ & Tuxedo)

Recent Releases
CA Gen 8.5
 Releases
– CA Gen 8.5 May 2013
– Interim Enhancement – 1 September 2014
– Incremental Release – 2 December 2014
– Incremental Release – 3 March 2015
– Incremental Release – 4 June 2015
 “Incremental Releases” continue to add functionality to this
active release
 Over 70 DARs implemented in this release so far

 Increased CFB Limit from 32K to 16MB for Mainframe (all
platforms)
 BLOBs – added CRUD actions and View passing
 Support 64-bit Unix/Linux Servers (all Distributed Servers)
 DB2 Table and Table Space partitioning
 CA Gen Studio Web View - full generation
 SOAP Middleware
 Transaction Enabler (TE) Web Services

CFB Extension
 Increased the amount of customer data that can be sent
between CA Gen clients and Mainframe Servers using
Common Format Buffer (CFB) from 32K to 16MB
– z/OS CICS (TCP/IP & MQ)

BLOB Support for Cooperative Applications
Clients Servers
GUI C,
C/COM
Proxy
Java Client
(JVM),
Java Proxy
Java Web
Generation,
Java Web View
Gen C Server
Gen EJB Server,
EJB Web services
Oracle
MS SQL
DB2 (Embedded
SQL,
ODBC/ADO.NET,
JDBC)
Gen .NET Server
COOP Flows
TCP/IP
MQ Series
Tuxedo
Java RMI
.Net
Remoting
 Support for binary large objects for generated applications
 Create, Read, Update, and Delete entity types containing BLOB attributes
 View support

Attribute Properties - BLOB

64-bit Support
 Unix/Linux Transaction Enabler upgraded to 64 bit
 CA Gen 8.5 supports Unix/Linux 64 bit generated server
applications only
– Available for Solaris, AIX and Linux
 Support for 64 bit HP-UX Itanium already exists
– Existing 32 bit servers need to be recompiled for 64 bit
– Existing 32 bit EAB’s need to be recompiled with correct 64 bit flags
– 64 bit Tuxedo available for Linux
 Windows 64 bit was released with IE2
– GUI clients remain 32 bits Windows

DB2 Table and Table Space Partitioning Plug-ins
 Table Partitions
– partition database tables based on the values of any column in the table
OR whenever the size of the partition exceeds a certain value
 Tablespace Partitioning
– partition database tablespaces based on growth or by pre-defining a
number of partition ranges
 Available with DB2 version 9
Data is stored in the model and used by the DDL generator when generating
CREATE TABLE and CREATE TABLESPACE statements.

DB2 Table Space Partitioning Plug-ins

DB2 Table Partitioning Plug-ins

Features in CA Gen 8.5 Interim Enhancement this – 1
 In-Line Code
– Write native code and/or SQL statements not natively supported by the
CA Gen action language
– Write free-form source code and/or SQL to reference CA Gen views
– Pass data between hand-written code and the Action Diagram
 Web Services Consumption
– Via the CA Gen Action Diagram, provide the ability to call any web
service
– Support C- language targets for all CA Gen environments (i.e. clients,
servers, block-mode, batch)
1 of 3

 DB2 Features
– DDL comment removal
– VARCHAR for text > 4000
– date/time/timestamp default values
– NULL for mandatory non-identifying relationships
 Generate Proxies from UNIX CSE
 Unlock Toolset if Upload to CSE Fails
– Provide option to unlock the model in the toolset should error on upload
occur
2 of 3

 Toolset Ease of Use Features
– Allow creation of a new action diagram from the action diagram
selection list
– Default Import entity view optionality is set to mandatory
– Set default deletion rule when adding a relationship
– Pass selected items on Windows to plug-in applications
– Partitioning indicated for Data Structure and Data Store List Diagrams
– View matching dialogs displayed only when necessary
 Certifications
– Java 7, Visual Studio 2012, z/OS 2.1, COBOL 5.1
3 of 3

Inline Code Statement - Dialog

Inline Code Statement - Sample

Web Service Consumption – Select Method Dialog

Web Service Consumption – Parameter Matching Dialog

Web Service Consumption - Sample

Features in CA Gen 8.5 Incremental Release – 2
 Web Service Consumption – Java
 Increase toolset support for larger models / subsets
 Add action diagram functions for BLOB (concat, substr, length,
text-to-BLOB conversions)

 Web Service Consumption – C#
 Publish Gen web services to CA API Gateway

 HP NonStop SQL/MX

CA Gen Roadmap
Planned Releases

Planned
Feature Description Benefit
Add Filters to CA Gen List
Dialogs
Allow for filtering lists found in the various CA Gen tools. Reduces the time and effort needed to find the desired model
objects.
Allow Distributed
Applications to be Upgraded
Easier
Allow applications to be upgraded by installing only the latest
CA Gen distributed runtimes.
Applications will not need to be regenerated or relinked eliminating
the need for customers to upgrade their GUI applications all at one
time.
Freemium Gen Provide a license free single-user copy of the Windows version
of CA Gen.
Allows anyone to try before they buy, brush up on old skills or learn
new ones.
BLOB Support on z/OS Currently supported for all CA Gen target environments except
z/OS.
Will allow our Mainframe customers the same capability as our
Distributed customers.
Web Services Consumption
for COBOL
Currently supported for all CA Gen supported languages
except COBOL.
Will allow our COBOL customers the same capability as already exists
in our other languages.

Potential Futures
 Enhancements suggested on Gen EDGE Community Ideas
– Add support for Left and Outer Joins
– Allow IN and BETWEEN clauses in all relational expression
– Allow action diagrams to be implemented as stored procedures
– Display statement numbers in the action diagram
 Migrate Action Diagram, Data Model List Diagram, Window
Designer, etc. to Gen Studio

CA Gen and Mobile Devices
 IET’s Rapide product allows current Gen models to be
generated targeting tablets and smart phones
– Android and iOS
– Multiple platform design
 Browser, Tablet, Phone
 Same procedure step, multiple layouts
– Native Controls and widgets
– Sophisticated layouts
 CA has made minor modifications to the Toolset to
support Rapide in a more integrated fashion

Recommended Sessions
SESSION # TITLE DATE/TIME
MFX33E
Pre-Con Education: Delivering CICS Web Services for CA
Gen Applications
10/17/2015 at 1:00 pm
MFX51S
Vision and Roadmap: CA Mainframe Application
Development and Testing Tools
10/18/2015 at 2:00 pm
MFX35S
Go Mobile to Mainframe with CA Gen and CA App
Services Orchestrator
10/18/2015 at 3:00 pm
MFX39S Modernizing COBOL applications with CA Gen 10/19/2015 at 4:30 pm

Follow Conversations At…
Demo Station: Mainframe Theater 6
Create Mobile-to-
Mainframe Apps Faster
(CA Gen)
DEMO STATION
Demo Station: Dev Ops Theater 3
Accelerate Web and
Mobile App
Development (CA ASO)
DEMO STATION

Q & A

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