Last Updated: January 27, 2004

Dear Valued Customer:

Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA) is pleased to announce the general availability of Advantage™ Data Transformer Enterprise Metadata Edition v2.1 (ADT-EME) and Advantage™ Data Transformer v2.1 on Windows platforms. Release 2.1 includes:

• Support for Windows Server 2003
• Support for Oracle 9.2
• Several Mapper enhancements
• ADT-EME support for Advantage Repository for Distributed Systems 2.1, CP3 (a pre-requisite for installing ADT-EME 2.1)
• Enhancements to ADT-EME Connector for SAP R/3
  • support for SAP R/3 4.6C
  • support for SAP AND/OR and ANSI Join features
  • passing ABAP parameters to SAP
• Support for Lotus Notes 6.0
• Many customer requested enhancements (DARS)

For additional Release 2.1 support information, please refer to the CA Technical Support site at http://supportconnect.ca.com

We are dedicated to ensuring that your use of Advantage Data Transformer is successful and we wish to thank you for your ongoing commitment to CA. If you have any questions or are interested in receiving additional information about Advantage Data Transformer, please contact your CA Account Manager.

Sincerely,

G. Allen Houpt
Director, Product Management