CA Database Management Solutions for DB2 for z/OS 11.0 SP5 Service Pack Announcement
To: CA Database Management Solutions for DB2 for z/OS Customers
From: The CA DB2 Product Team
Subject: Service Pack Announcement

On behalf of the CA team, we appreciate your business and the opportunity to provide high-quality, innovative software and services. As part of our ongoing commitment to customer success, we regularly announce updated releases and maintenance for our products.

Today, we are pleased to announce the availability of CA Database Management Solutions r11 SP5 for DB2 for z/OS. With this new service pack, we are pleased to continue to offer an alternative to physical distribution. You can download this service pack, the Product Documentation, and the Product Information Packet from CA Support Online, logon to support.ca.com and access the Products Link under the Downloads heading on the left side of the page to get started. Please note that if you have multiple DB2 products licensed, you only need to select and download one product as the package is the same for each product.

If you are installing PTF maintenance, you can download the service pack bucket by accessing the r11 SP5 links located on:
support.ca.com/irj/portal/anonymous/phpdocs?filePath=7/1201/1201_dspi_mainframe.html.

If you prefer to receive a physical copy of this new service pack and collateral, please call
1-800-637-5858, option 2. Be sure to request CA Database Management Solutions r11 SP5 for DB2 for z/OS. For customers outside North America, please contact your local CA Support Center.

If you have any questions regarding this notice, please contact your local Support Availability Manager. For technical assistance, please contact Technical Support at 1-800-859-3289 (U.S. and Canada) or 1-631-342-4683 (International).

We designed our ongoing product development, customer support and maintenance programs to help customers succeed, and believe our latest service pack is a good example of our efforts.

Thank you for your continued support of CA.

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CA Database Management Solutions for IMS for z/OS 11.5 SP4 Service Pack Announcement
To: CA Database Management Solutions for IMS for z/OS Customers
From: The CA IMS Product Team
Subject: Service Pack Announcement

On behalf of the CA team, we appreciate your business and the opportunity to provide high-quality, innovative software and services. As part of our ongoing commitment to customer success, we regularly announce updated releases and maintenance for our products.

Today, we are pleased to announce the availability of CA Database Management Solutions r11.5 SP4 for IMS for z/OS. With this new service pack, we are pleased to continue to offer an alternative to physical distribution. You can download this service pack, the Product Documentation, and the Product Information Packet from CA Support Online, logon to support.ca.com and access the Products Link under the Downloads heading on the left side of the page to get started. Please note that if you have multiple IMS products licensed, you only need to select and download one product as the package is the same for each product. If you are installing PTF maintenance, you can download the service pack bucket by accessing the r11.5 SP4 links located on:
support.ca.com/irj/portal/anonymous/phpdocs?filePath=7/2854/2854_dspi_mainframe.html.

If you prefer to receive a physical copy of this new service pack and collateral, please call
1-800-637-5858, option 2. Be sure to request CA Database Management Solutions r11.5 SP4 for IMS for z/OS. For customers outside North America, please contact your local CA Support Center.

If you have any questions regarding this notice, please contact your local Support Availability Manager. For technical assistance, please contact Technical Support at 1-800-201-7536 (U.S. and Canada) or 1-303-262-8300 (International).

We designed our ongoing product development, technical support and maintenance programs to help customers succeed, and believe our latest service pack is a good example of our efforts.

Thank you for your continued support of CA.

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End of Service Announcement for CA Database Management Solutions r11.0 for IMS for z/OS
To: CA Database Management for IMS Customers
From: The CA Database Management for IMS Product Team
Subject: End of Service Announcement for CA Database Management r11.0 for IMS and Stabilization of Unicenter DC Monitor Extensions

CA is continually working to improve our software and services to best meet the needs of our customers. As part of this ongoing effort support for older releases is discontinued. This will allow our Development organization to effectively focus its resources on and add value to the newer and upcoming releases of the CA Database Solutions for IMS. End of Service means that support for CA Database Management r11.0 for IMS products will be discontinued beginning on April 30, 2009. The CA Database Management for IMS solution is comprised of the following r11.0 products:

We have also discovered that while the Unicenter DC Monitor Extensions product still provides useful functions to some customers, its value to most customers and prospective customers in the market has declined significantly over the past few years. Therefore, we are announcing that all supported releases of Unicenter DC Monitor Extensions will be functionally stabilized on April 30, 2008. Functionally stabilizing a product means that there will be no new releases or further enhancements to this product. However, maintenance and support for release r11.6 of this product will continue in accordance with your active maintenance contract.

At this time, we encourage you to plan for the migration to CA Database Management for IMS r11.6 as soon as possible so you can take full advantage of the latest new features and enhancements this release has to offer. CA Database Management r11.6 for IMS is Generally Available and contains all the enhancements in the r11.5 release with the addition of support for IMS v10. For additional information on CA Database Management for IMS, please visit the CA Database Management for IMS product pages at CA Support Online (support.ca.com).

As CA would like to help make your upgrade to CA Database Management for IMS r11.6 as straightforward and successful as possible, we are offering the following:

If you have any questions regarding the support schedule, please contact CA Database Management for IMS Technical Support at CA Support Online (support.ca.com). Our Technical Support Lifecycle Policy is also available at this site.

Your success is very important to us, and we look forward to continuing our successful partnership with you.

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End of Life Second Notification for Unicenter® Data Compressor for DB2 for z/OS
To: Unicenter Data Compressor for DB2 for z/OS Customers
From: The CA Database Management Product Team
Subject: End of Life Follow-up Announcement for Unicenter Data Compressor for DB2 for z/OS

CA is continually working to improve our software and services to best meet the needs of our customers. As a follow-up to our first letter regarding End of Life of Unicenter Data Compressor for DB2 for z/OS, we would like to confirm that support for this product will be discontinued beginning on October 1, 2008, though CA will honor any contractual requirements to sustain support on defined products.

Your success is very important to us, and we look forward to continuing our successful partnership with you.

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End of Service Announcement for CA Modeling Suite 7.1
CA is continually working to improve our software and services to best meet the needs of our customers. In an ongoing effort to ensure that our Development organization provides optimal support for non-legacy product releases and in conjunction with the currently planned future general availability of CA ERwin® Modeling Release 7.3 (includes: CA ERwin® Data Modeler, CA ERwin® Model Manager, CA ERwin® Process Modeler, CA ERwin® Model Navigator, and
CA ERwin® Data Model Validator), we have scheduled support for Release 7.1 to be discontinued within the next 12 months. Doing so will allow our Development organization to effectively focus its resources on and increase value to that future product release.
support.ca.com/irj/portal/prddtlshome?productID=260

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Hyper UIDE241 for CA Database Organizer™ r11.5 for IMS for z/OS
Hyper UIDE241 for CA Database Organizer r11.5 for IMS for z/OS
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FAQs for CA Database Management Distributed Database Tools
Insight Database Performance Management for Distributed Databases is now localized in Japanese and French. Click here for details:
CA Database Management 11.2 LOCA - Now GA.

What's on the horizon for CA Database Management for Distributed Database and it's associated products? Click the following link for details:
CA Database Management for Distributed Databases Product Roadmap.

Why do I get the error message "Invalid username or password" when logging into CA Database Command Center? I am using the user "udcc" which was just created on installation.
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Why do I see the message "No data returned from SQL statement" in User Defined SQL scan?
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FAQs for CA ERwin® Modeling Suite
What is the DLL required by ERwin to connect to an Oracle Model Manager mart (NOT Oracle db)?
support.ca.com/irj/portal/anonymous/redirArticles?reqPage=search&searchID=TEC449993

Does ERwin have compatibility with MySQL is through ODBC or the Native client?
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Can I modify a model version that is opened from Version Manager?
support.ca.com/irj/portal/anonymous/redirArticles?reqPage=search&searchID=TEC450039

Is there a way to import any textbox with its contents from one model to another during a Complete Compare?
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I tried to Forward Engineer a table from ERwin to SQL Server 2000. There are no errors but the tables do not get created.
support.ca.com/irj/portal/anonymous/redirArticles?reqPage=search&searchID=TEC461606

I am using the RTB reports to generate a pdf report that includes picture and entity and I get the error: "Exception occurred in pdflib: 1100, load image parameter 'filename' is empty.
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When I did a Complete Compare from model to model (database model), the Database side shows the foreign key (FK) index as missing. When I attempt to export the FK index to the database model using the export arrow, nothing happens.
support.ca.com/irj/portal/anonymous/redirArticles?reqPage=search&searchID=TEC461611

I am Complete Comparing two models; one is Reverse Engineered from Oracle 10g database. I renamed three columns on the model side, and I am trying to export them to the database side of the model. CA ERwin DM is going the process of Drop, Rename, Create... instead of just renaming the three columns.
support.ca.com/irj/portal/anonymous/redirArticles?reqPage=search&searchID=TEC461623

What is the difference between a Physical level and a Database level compare in r7 Complete Compare?
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Template File (*.erwin_tmpl) : in previous versions of ERwin you could change the Target Database. Why has that changed?
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During the Complete Compare, what is the difference between the Session file (*.CCS) and the Option set file (*.xml)?
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CA ERwin® Data Modeler Supports the CA Academic Initiative
The CA Academic Initiative is designed to give students the resources and knowledge necessary to succeed in today's complex IT environments. We do that by providing students and faculty with resources that can easily be integrated into existing curriculum. The program provides several components to help you with teaching, learning and experiencing IT:

And, best of all, these resources are free.

By partnering with CA, your institution can provide students with practical, real-world experience while enabling faculty to maintain leading-edge knowledge of software technologies and methodologies.

If you would, please forward information this to your deans, department chairs and other faculty who may be interested in taking advantage of these free IT academic resources.

For more information and to join the program, please visit ca.com/academic. You may also
e-mail us at UniversityRelations@ca.com with any questions.

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Are you Running z/OS 1.6 or Older and Using Insight™ for DB2, r11.5 SP1, or Newer?
If so, then you must apply PTF UDBD102 to avoid an S0C4 ABEND that may occur in the exception processor. This ABEND will bring down the Data Collector, and the only way to restart it is to restart it without the Exception Processor (SYSPARM EXCEPTION-PROCESSOR=NO). This ABEND occurs because SP1 contained support for DB2 Version 9, and this support contains instructions to process fields in the MVS ASSB control block associated with ZIIP engines. At z/OS 1.6 and earlier, these fields do not exist.

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Unicode Conversion Support for Fast Unload, Fast Load and Install
For customers who have Unicode tables and are going to perform the Install Related Tasks (either migration to DB2 NFM or CA Database Management Tools for DB2 for z/OS) or unloads and loads, the following r11.5 PTFs should be applied: UFUF246 and UGEF569.
support.ca.com/irj/portal/anonymous/redirArticles?reqPage=search&searchID=RI00085

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New CA ERwin® Data Modeler Forums on Support Online
One of the exciting new features of CA's new online support system is the revamped CA Online Forums. The CA ERwin Data Modeler forum is already one of the most active boards.

To go to this forum, simply login to support.ca.com. On the left side of the page select User Communities, then select CA User Community Forums, then under Browse Boards select Databases, DB Design & Modeling, and you will see the CA ERwin General Discussion Board. Click on this link, and you are there. Check it out today!

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Road Maps
CA Database Management Solutions for DB2 for z/OS at:
support.ca.com/phpdocs/7/common/db2_roadmap.pdf.

CA Database Management Solutions for IMS at:
support.ca.com/phpdocs/7/2854/2854_ims_roadmap.pdf.

CA Database Management Distributed Database Tools at:
support.ca.com/phpdocs/7/common/cadbmgtdd_roadmap.pdf.

CA ERwin® Modeling Product Roadmap at:
support.ca.com/phpdocs/7/260/260_roadmap.pdf.

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