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E-News
z/VSE and VSE/ESA Newsletter
Version 08.01
February 29, 2008

In This Newsletter
Product News
> CA Dynam® Family for z/VSE r7.1 Beta Program

Product Updates
> Recently Published HIPER Solutions

General Information
> Tips and Tricks
 
> Benefits of the CA EPIC™ for z/VSE AUTOATTACH Feature
> CA FAVER™2 for z/VSE's Versatile COPY/MOVE Utility

Product News
CA Dynam® Family for z/VSE r7.1 Beta Program
We are pleased to invite you to participate in the CA Dynam Family for z/VSE r7.1 Beta program. Your participation offers you the ability to validate this update release in your own environment, allowing you to give us feedback on product enhancements, quality, and the beta program.

CA Dynam Family for z/VSE is a collection of software products designed to provide a comprehensive file management facility for your data center. CA Dynam for z/VSE is comprised of three products that work together to efficiently manage tape and disk files and provide file independence.

CA Dynam/T Tape Management for VSE
CA Dynam/T helps you manage your tape library in the following ways:
  • Automatically controlling tape data set usage and retention
  • Preventing active tape data sets from being scratched
  • Controlling remote site tape movement and retention
CA Dynam/D Disk Management for VSE
CA Dynam/D efficiently manages your disk data sets in the following ways:
  • Allocating primary and secondary disk space
  • Permitting automatic space release
  • Protecting disk data sets from overlapping and deleting active files
CA Dynam/FI File Independence for VSE
CA Dynam/FI allows files to be switched from most sequential media to either tape or disk in the following ways:
  • Dynamically reblocking files for specified devices
  • Dynamically changing record formats
  • Simulating unit-record to multi-record device types, such as card reader to tape
What's New in r7.1:
  • Support for IBM's hardware based tape encryption:
    Four new densities have been added to CA Dynam/T which when specified will trigger CA Dynam/T to find an available encryption capable drive, make the assignment and then pass the appropriate KEKL information to VSE. KEKL information for a dataset can now be defined in the CA Dynam catalog.
  • Enhancements to CA Dynam/D's disk file maintenance utility program DYNUTIL:
    • Support for an EXCLUDE parameter on the DYNUTIL DUMP, REORG and RESTORE commands to allow the ability to selectively exclude certain datasets from being restored or dumped.
    • Allow multi-extent files to be reorganized as single extent files.
    • Allow a file to be restored to a specific volume within a pool.

For more information on these and additional enhancements or to register for the CA Dynam for VSE r7.1 Beta Program, please visit the website.

Should you have any questions or require additional information, please contact Robert Giesting, VP CA Products Mainframe Development, at 614-785-2752 or Robert.Giesting@ca.com.

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Product Updates
Recently Published HIPER Solutions
The following HIPER PTF's are published and available for download at: support.ca.com:

VSE System Adapter r6.1, a component of CA CIS for VSE r1.4:
QO76350 CADD074E JOB CANCELLED - ASAMAX EXCEEDED

CA FAQS®/ASO r5.0 SP4:
QO89200 Console function abends at x'CC'
QO85971 Msg action commands not processed. SP4

CA EPIC™ r5.1 SP8:
QO86811 TSIDON ABEND SEGMENT XLATE.

CA DYNAM®/D r7.0 SP5:
QO92221 OPERATION EXCEPTION W/QO88338  

CA Top Secret® r3.0 SP9:
QO85351 TSPM-4100 SELECT NOT WORKING
QO85353 TSPM-3100 '_' IN NAME FIELD
QO85973 Storage creep 31-bit system getvis
QO89373 Access levels checked incorrectly

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General Information
Tips and Tricks
Benefits of the CA EPIC™ for z/VSE AUTOATTACH Feature
Computer operators are relieved of the burden of manually tracking drive attachments. Drive availability is increased and system throughput is improved by the pooling of free devices. AUTOATTACH is also a prerequisite for some flavors of EPIC's robotic tape drive support.

To learn more about using the AUTOATTACH feature, click here.

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CA FAVER™2 for z/VSE's Versatile COPY/MOVE Utility
CA FAVER 2 for z/VSE COPY/MOVE commands can be used to make disk to disk copies or transfers. COPY/MOVE also has the added benefit of duplicating or transferring data between different or like file types, such as VSAM to VSAM or VSAM to SAM.

To learn more about using this utility, click here.

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