CA announces new releases of CA-IDMS and CA-Datacom.

Worldwide Computer Products News-11 July 2006-CA announces new releases of CA-IDMS and CA-Datacom(C)1995-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com

CA (NYSE:CA), an IT management software company, announced on Monday (10 July) new releases of its CA-IDMS and CA-Datacom mainframe database management systems.

According to the company, the latest CA-IDMS release features an express reorganization utility for IBM z/OS that improves system availability by reducing scheduled downtime. In addition, the release provides improved compliance and audit reporting capabilities that enable organizations to track database activity by user ID.

The latest CA-Datacom release reportedly supports 24x7 availability and features new capabilities, including online data reorganization, online index defragmentation, uninterrupted service during scheduled IPLs, and an automated transition to an available 'shadow' CA-Datacom environment if a system failure occurs. In addition, CA-Datacom now features parallel index queue processing and variable log block optimizations.

CA-Datacom r11.2 is available now and CA-IDMS r16 SP4 will be available later in July 2006. Both products run in IBM z/OS and z/VSE environments, and CA-IDMS also runs in IBM z/VM and Siemens Fujitsu BS2000/OSD environments, the company claims. No pricing details were disclosed.

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