CA Spool™ r11.5 - In Beta Testing
CA is pleased to announce that CA Spool r11.5 is now in Beta testing. New and enhanced CA Spool r11.5 features include the following:

• SAS/C to IBM z/OS C/C++ conversion
• IPv6 Support
• Large format spool datasets
• Online Metric Reporting
• CA XCOM™ print driver
• Connect:Direct print driver
• FTP print driver
• Filter and Sort Support
• Web Interface - Role-based Management View
• Web Interface - Auto-Refresh
• Web Interface - View text files as PDF, RTF or HTML
• Enterprise - Wide Web Interface

For more information about CA Spool r11.5 Beta, click CA Spool r11.5 beta program.

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Latest Maintenance Releases
The following product maintenance packages are now available for ordering. For more information about product updates, visit the product home pages on support.ca.com or click:

CA Deliver™ r11.0 SP03

CA View® r11.0 SP03

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Planning the CA View® r11.0 Upgrade
Have you started planning the upgrade to CA View r11? With the recent drop support (February 28, 2008) for CA View 2.0, it is very important to perform the upgrade process to r11, if it has not yet been completed.

CA View r11.0 includes the following new features:

• Expanded Report Identifiers: Creates larger and more meaningful names for your reports, with a maximum of 32 characters.
• New External Security Interface: Utilizes the resource class rules to allow detailed security.
• Data Set List Function: Enables listing and browsing of individual datasets within a report.
• DR Tape Support: Creates a separate Disaster Recovery tape that can be moved offsite everyday.
• Report List Filtering: Filters all headings on the report selection list.

To assist in planning an easy upgrade, we have created a product page specifically designated to consolidate all of the information you may need to make the upgrade successful.

This page includes the following information:

• Presentations on performing the upgrade, and new security interface
• Checklist to walk you through successful upgrade
• Knowledge documents available on various CA View 11.0 topics.

Click here to review upgrade information for CA View r11.

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Upgrading to CA Dispatch™ r11
A Quick Reference Guide has been created to provide a simplified, condensed check list of items, which can be used as a supplement to the Getting Started Guide, when upgrading from a prior release of CA Dispatch to r11.

If you are upgrading from CA Dispatch release 6.0 to r11, refer to QI92361: support.ca.com/irj/portal/anonymous/redirArticles?reqPage=search&searchID=QI92361

If you are upgrading from CA Dispatch release 5.1 to r11, refer to QI92363: support.ca.com/irj/portal/anonymous/redirArticles?reqPage=search&searchID=QI92363

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Lower Cost and Gain Access to your Information with EMC Centera® and CA View®
Does your organization use mainframes to create and process thousands of enterprise documents weekly or even daily? With data growing at a phenomenal rate, and budgets and manpower shrinking almost as quickly, the need to automate and streamline report handling and management is paramount to ensure optimal business operations. In addition, there is a need to meet the ever-growing compliance, rules and regulations. To meet this cost, you need a scalable, extensible solution that can significantly reduce time and resource-intensive manual document management while keeping all your vital fixed content secure, and readily available at a moment's notice.

Immediate access to information can mean the difference between making and breaking a critical sale, confirming the successful completion of a business transaction, or providing critical information in a legal matter. How will your business meet all of the demands for immediate information? Where can you find an enterprise solution that can make reports and documents easily available for customers, managers, employees, and vendors, and understand when and where they need the information?

The experienced technology leaders, EMC and CA, offers a powerful joint solution. CA View is an automated archival and retrieval system that allows immediate and flexible online viewing of mainframe legacy reports. Its repository is also capable of housing many types of open systems documentation, which provides you an easy mechanism to selectively view and manage all types of documents.

CA View integrates with EMC Centera content-addressed storage (CAS) to automate the flow of reports between mainframe and distributed platforms, thereby offering a solution set that grows with your changing business needs. EMC Centera uses content-addressed storage to ensure fast and easy access to your archived information. This assures security at all stages of its lifecycle that is from creation to disposal.

To learn more about CA View Centera Option for EMC and the EMC Centera content-addressed storage, please register for our webcast: bitpipe.com/detail/RES/1209579484_602.html.

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CA WORLD® 2008 - What's In It For Mainframe Ouput and Enterprise Report Management Customers?
Don't miss this outstanding opportunity to enhance your knowledge on CA Mainframe Output and Enterprise Report Management. CA WORLD 2008 offers a comprehensive set of activities focusing on your technology needs!

An intelligent output management strategy can reduce energy costs by letting you manage, capture, archive, distribute and view output from any platform on the mainframe, and use predefined rules that dictate various compliance levels for storing that output. Join the CA Output and Enterprise Report Management (CA ERM) development team to hear about the latest trends, including how to use CA ERM products, to create a paperless environment that scales to your requirements.

The CA ERM opening session provides details about CA's product directions and highlights. The new CA ERM provides roadmaps for CA View®, CA Deliver™, CA Spool™, CA Dispatch™, Output Management Web Viewer and CA Easytrieve® Plus Report Generator.

Your participation in numerous informative sessions may help you in optimizing your CA ERM investment in the following ways:

• The Birds of a Feather session offers detailed information on Product Roadmap, and provides an open forum to share your knowledge, or find answers to your questions.
• What's new in r11.5 of CA View, CA Deliver and CA Spool provides the most recent enhancement information.
• The Hands-on lab experience encourages you to learn the advantages of the product, for example you may learn the benefits of using the new CA Easytrieve Plus SDS (Simplified Development System) and how it increases your productivity in developing reports.
• Learning sessions suggest on how to get the most out of your investment in CA Output Management Web Viewer, with a focus on best practices and topics that include installation, configuration, security and load balancing.
• Analyzing how EMC Centera in liaison with CA View can improve document availability, and cost reduction in managing documents.
• Update sessions on:
  • How the University Community Hospital in Tampa, Florida is using CA Spool and CA Dispatch to save money and "keep it green"?
  • How the Halifax Bank of Scotland is using CA Output Management for confidential information delivery?
  • How to benefit from the recent installation experiences at the Federal Reserve?

In addition to these outstanding educational opportunities, you can also do the following:

• Make appointments to meet with CA View, CA Deliver, CA Spool, CA Dispatch, CA Easytrieve managers and executives at the Customer Value Corner.
• Discuss specific ERM questions or issues with development and technical support staff at the Technical Campground by making an appointment or just dropping by.
• Network with other CA ERM users to benefit from their experiences.

And of course CA World 2008 isn't just about CA ERM! As your business grows and evolves, it is more important than ever to you to get maximum value out of your mainframe.

At CA World 2008, we will show you how to:

• Optimize the performance of all your mainframe applications, even as you increase the workloads running on your existing infrastructure.
• Reduce the time and effort it takes to manage utilization, maintain security, perform backups, and execute other core operational tasks.
• Leverage mainframe resources to deliver online services, support SOA strategies, ensure regulatory compliance, and drive down energy consumption.

In fact, as the world's largest and most exciting ISV mainframe event of the year, CA World 2008 offers you a unique opportunity to see all the latest and greatest solutions for managing the mainframe under one roof. So don't miss it!

Register for CA WORLD 2008 today and experience 4 days of great learning. November 16-20, 2008 - The Venetian Congress and Sands Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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