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Advantage™ VISION Newsletter
Version 04.03
July 12, 2004

In This Newsletter
Product News
> Searching for Advantage™ VISION:Builder® Beta Testers
> Advantage™ VISION:Report® Release 16.1 GA Reminder and Support for Older Releases

General Information
> Advantage™ VISION:Results® - Avoiding Abends in Variable Length Records
> Advantage™ Automated Code Manager for COBOL - Restructure and Improve Your COBOL Programs
the Easy Way
> Advantage™ VISION:Builder® - Legacy Data Extracted and Converted to PC Format
> CA Announces Newly Enhanced Partner Program

Special Events
> CA Education Opportunities

Product News
Searching for Advantage™ VISION:Builder® Beta Testers
The Advantage VISION:Builder development team is looking for customers to participate in the Advantage VISION:Builder Release 15.0 for z/OS Beta Test Program. Click here to read more about the exciting enhancements in this new release. If you are interested in participating in the beta program, contact Tom Schuler, Advantage VISION:Builder Beta Coordinator, at 1-818-593-0371 or Tom.Schuler@ca.com.

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Advantage™ VISION:Report® Release 16.1 GA Reminder and Support for Older Releases
Advantage VISION:Report for z/OS 16.1 and Advantage VISION:Report for VSE 16.1 are Generally Available and ready to order. Please read the attached article to learn about the many enhancements in Release 16.1, for ordering information, and for the support date for older releases of Advantage VISION:Report.

For more information about support for older releases of Advantage VISION:Report, click here.

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General Information
Advantage™ VISION:Results® - Avoiding Abends in Variable Length Records
In the Advantage VISION:Results Reference Guide, we advise: "For output files, you must tell Advantage VISION:Results how long the data portion of the current record is." If the length, keyword, and data name are not specified on a variable length field, Advantage VISION:Results moves the MAXIMUM LRECL coded on the file statement. This means that bytes unused by the application are filled with unknown contents. If a short record is read, Advantage VISION:Results may pick up data from the next record. This could lead to incorrect output, S0C4 abends, or even S0C7 abends.

For more information on avoiding the problem, click here.

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Advantage™ Automated Code Manager for COBOL - Restructure and Improve Your COBOL Programs the Easy Way
The typical COBOL program is a large, complex program that has been modified many times by many COBOL programmers and probably contains a significant amount of "spaghetti" code. Advantage Automated Code Manager is a tool that helps automate and streamline the difficult and time-consuming process of code improvement. For each COBOL program, code structuring will:
  • Restructure the program control flow and produce a 100% structured program
    • Eliminate the spaghetti code
  • Retain the full and original program functionality
  • Explicitly isolate all the data logic code at the end of the code
    • Batch I/O, CICS, SQL, DL/I statements
  • Implicitly isolate all the business logic code
  • Remove all the dead code
  • Document all Control Flow changes
  • Produce a program Structure Chart
  • Apply programming standards
Once the COBOL program has been restructured to your specifications and, after the program has been modified manually, you should reexamine it via the Assess component of Advantage Automated Code Manager to help ensure that the quality level remains high.

To read more on how you can improve your COBOL programs, click here.

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Advantage™ VISION:Builder® - Legacy Data Extracted and Converted to PC Format
You have a gold mine of legacy data sitting on your enterprise system. Advantage VISION:Builder can extract the data you need in a format you can use with common PC tools such as Microsoft Excel. Here we will demonstrate extracting data to a comma-delimited file that can be directly imported into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.

Click here to read more and see an example.

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CA Announces Newly Enhanced Partner Program
ONE Partner Program that is Simple... Flexible... Profitable... Integrated

At caworldSM 2004 in Las Vegas, we announced the evolution our partner programs into a unified single program framework. This serves to better meet the needs of our partners and enables us to deliver outstanding flexibility, quality, service, and value by combining our own best-in-class management solutions with the expertise of our world-class partners. With all our partner programs under one roof, it's easier than ever to do business with CA.

CA's new Partner Program Framework now offers all partners the opportunity to become
ca smart™ certified. ca smart certification is a distinction awarded to a select group of innovative companies in the upper echelon of CA Partners. To CA customers, the ca smart™ Seal of Excellence means our partners' certified solutions and/or services have been tested and proven, resulting in tightly integrated technology, well-trained professionals, and easier installations.

For more detail on CA's ONE Partner Program, please visit our new Partner Program site.

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Special Events
CA Education Opportunities
CA Education offers hundreds of instructor-led and computer-based training courses on the management software that runs your business. Get trained in one of our state-of-the-art North American Learning Centers, on the Web or via CD-ROM, or arrange for on-site training at the location of your choice.

For information on all CA Education opportunities, please visit our website or call us
at 1-800-237-9273.

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