CA Announces Day One Support for IBM's z/OS V1.9.Security Management Products Exploit New z/OS Features ISLANDIA, N.Y. -- CA (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : CA) today announced "Day One" support for z/OS V1.9 across its industry-leading line of mainframe software solutions, continuing its history of timely support for new releases of IBM System z IBM zSeries is a brand name of IBM which was designated to all IBM mainframes in 2000 with the e depicted in IBM's red trademarked symbol. The IBM eServer zSeries line succeeded the IBM System/390 (S/390 operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. . CA solutions for z/OS V1.9 empower IT organizations to optimize deployment of data center resources, reduce total cost of ownership, align utilization with business value, secure and protect the integrity of resources, and quickly respond to evolving enterprise computing Refers to information technology in the larger company. See enterprise data and enterprise networking. requirements. "Because IBM's z/OS and CA's management solutions are both strategic for us, it's essential for us to be able to upgrade products from both vendors in concert with each other," said Alan Fretten, COO for Mainframe Technical Services at BT. "CA's immediate support for each new version of z/OS has consistently enabled us to do exactly that." CA participated in IBM's vendor program for z/OS V1.9 to ensure that its products perform to the highest standards in that environment. Two of its security management products, CA ACF (Advanced Communications Function) An earlier official product line name for IBM SNA programs, such as VTAM (ACF/VTAM) and NCP (ACF/NCP). ACF - Advanced Communications Function 2 and CA Top Secret, exploit z/OS V1.9 facilities by * Providing greater interoperability with non-z/OS Kerberos implementations through support of the Advanced Encryption Standard (cryptography, algorithm) Advanced Encryption Standard - (AES) The NIST's replacement for the Data Encryption Standard (DES). The Rijndael /rayn-dahl/ symmetric block cipher, designed by Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen, was chosen by a NIST contest to be AES. (AES) cryptographic algorithm for both 128-bit and 256-bit encryption. * Simplifying administration of Digital Certificates, including auto-renewal prior to expiration. * Taking advantage of improvements in the operating system's System Management Facility (SMF (1) (Standard Messaging Format) An electronic mail format for Novell's MHS messaging system. The application puts the data into this format in order to send an e-mail message. ) journaling capacity and performance to automatically create complete security records. "CA customers depend on our solutions to extract maximum technical performance and business value from their investments in IBM mainframe IBM mainframes, though perceived as synonymous with mainframe computers in general due to their marketshare, are now technically and specifically IBM's line of business computers that can all trace their design evolution to the IBM System/360. technology," said Mark Combs, senior vice president and general manager at CA. "That's why we have once again invested the resources necessary to ensure that we provide Day One support for the newest version of z/OS." CA release compatibility charts for z/OS are available at http://www.ca.com/products/zos/. About CA CA (NYSE: CA), one of the world's largest information technology (IT) management software companies, unifies and simplifies the management of enterprise-wide IT. Founded in 1976, CA is headquartered in Islandia, N.Y., and serves customers in more than 140 countries. For more information, please visit http://ca.com. Copyright (c) 2007 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. All trademarks, trade names, service marks, and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. |
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