CA announces CA-FIX/2000 to provide Automated Remediation of COBOL applications for new millenium.

ISLANDIA, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 23, 1997--

Key Addition To CA Discovery 2000 Gives Clients

End-To-End Solution For Year 2000 Compliance

Isuzu: "CA-Fix/2000 Provides Us With The Missing Link

In Our Year 2000 Solution Set"

ISLANDIA, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 23, 1997--Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA) today announced CA-Fix/2000, a powerful new component to CA Discovery 2000 that provides intelligent, automated remediation of COBOL applications. CA Discovery 2000 now provides an end-to-end solution for Year 2000 compliance.

"Finding and correcting date fields in business applications is the most critical and risky phase of the Year 2000 compliance effort," said Mark Stabler, CA vice president. "With this new technology, CA Discovery 2000 provides automated solutions for every phase of a Year 2000 conversion, from initial portfolio inventory and impact analysis through code correction, testing, and final turnover to production."

CA-Fix/2000 rapidly performs automated date analysis and correction of COBOL source code, providing the fastest path to Year 2000 compliance. It eliminates the tedious, error-prone task of manually finding and correcting the date fields in computer programs. Because it can correct an entire application in a single pass, CA-Fix/2000 helps ensure consistent corrections are made even when records are redefined or when date fields are passed from one program to another.

"With the deadline fast approaching, automated correction of legacy code is becoming increasingly important as companies work to convert all their systems, test them, and get them into production in time," said Dick Heiman, application development tools research manager at International Data Corporation. "Facing limited resources and an immovable target, companies are recognizing that tools like CA-Fix/2000, which significantly reduce the manual conversion effort, provide the shortest and most accurate path to Year 2000 compliance." With advanced technology based on comprehensive data and logic flow analysis, CA-Fix/2000 identifies and corrects erroneous COBOL date fields. The product can remediate an entire application, ensuring consistent code corrections that are implemented according to user-specified requirements.

Today's announcement was widely endorsed by clients, including Barnes & Noble, Inc., the world's largest bookseller, and Isuzu Motors, America, Inc., a subsidiary of Isuzu Motors Ltd., Japan's oldest car maker.

"There is a lot of hype in the industry about the approach of the Year 2000, much of it seeming to be more of a scare tactic than a constructive solution," said Richard J. Kish, chief information officer of Barnes & Noble. "Computer Associates stands out from the crowd with CA-Fix/2000 -a product that will help Barnes & Noble not only mitigate the risk, but also help to automate the process of identifying and actually modifying our legacy systems completely, making them Year 2000 compliant. This is the constructive solution we needed to get the job done by 1998."

"CA-Fix/2000 provides us with the missing link in our Year 2000 solution set," said Ken Goltara, director of systems development for Isuzu Motors, America, Inc., which uses a series of CA Discovery 2000 products for analysis and testing. "Facing the current market realities of scarce human resources and increasing labor costs, we have been concerned about how we were going to address the actual code conversion phase of the project. By most industry estimates, this accounts for 20 percent to 25 percent of the total effort. CA's introduction of CA-Fix/2000 will fit nicely into our methodology and should allow us to minimize our cost of compliance."

CA-Fix/2000 consists of three phases:

- The Discover phase examines the application to identify missing components, such as subroutines and copybooks.

- The Find phase uses comprehensive data flow analysis to help organizations make informed decisions about which date fields need to be corrected.

- The Fix phase corrects all the source and copybooks within the entire application, applying the user-specified correction to each date field.

Throughout these phases, CA-Fix/2000 produces a complete audit trail with both summary and detail reports on missing components, the properties of suspected date fields, application flow of control, and the changes that CA-Fix/2000 has implemented.

CA-Fix/2000 is the latest addition to the award-winning CA Discovery 2000 solution, a unique combination of software and services to help reduce the cost and ensure the success of Year 2000 initiatives. CA-Fix/2000 is tightly integrated with CA-Impact/2000, a powerful impact analysis tool that enables organizations to determine the impact and cost of converting COBOL, CA-Easytrieve, CA-ADS, CA-Ideal and other text-based programs.

Automated date correction for CA-Easytrieve, CA-ADS, and CA-Ideal is provided by UNICAST/2000, under an agreement between CA and Information Analysis Inc. (IAI) that was announced in March.

"There aren't enough programmers in the world to help organizations meet their Year 2000 conversion challenges," said Stabler. "That's why we have utilized our expertise to automate as much of the process as possible for our clients."

Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE: CA), with headquarters in Islandia, N.Y., is the world leader in mission-critical business software. The company develops, licenses and supports more than 500 integrated products that include enterprise computing and information management, application development, manufacturing and financial applications. CA has nearly 10,000 people in 160 offices in 40 countries and had revenue of $4 billion in fiscal year 1997. CA can be reached by visiting http://www.cai.com on the World Wide Web, emailing [e-mail] or calling 1-516-342-5224.

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