CA Gen Exploration – What's New and Cool in Application Development
John Carter
Mainframe
CA Technologies
Product Owner – CA Gen
MFX27E
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Abstract
Hear how integrated modeling and code generation from CA Gen help you to deliver platform-independent applications on distributed and mainframe that run your mission-critical processes. Join us for a technical deep dive, learn about new product enhancements and watch a demo.
John Carter
CA Technologies
Product Owner – CA Gen
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Agenda
APP DEV ORGANIZATION
APP DEV PORTFOLIO STRATEGIC DIRECTION
Q & A
AGILE @ CA
CA GEN ROADMAP – RECENT AND PLANNED RELEASES
DEMOS
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Application Development PortfolioStrategic Direction
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Application Development Portfolio
Listened to Customers, Partners, and CA Management
Three primary concerns/issues– We have too many products
– They’re not integrated
– They’re not building the kinds of applications needed today
While continuing to sustain our legacy products, undertaken a strategy to simplify, integrate, and enhance a core set of our current products to be building the kind of applications needed today
Strategy Formulation
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Software Change Management
Application DevelopmentMeeting the Needs of the Application Developer in Today’s Mobile World
Create code assets and manage software changeCA Endevor® SCM CA Harvest SCM
CA File Master™ CA InterTest™
Distributed developer
Develop mobile/Web front-end logic and new user experience
Incorporate on-premise and cloud application
services
Mobiledeveloper
Cloud Services
Systemprogrammer
DBA
Leverage and extendback-end application logic and data sources
CA Gen
MainframeDeveloper C
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CA Mainframe Application Tuner
CA SymDump
Planned
Available
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Application Development PortfolioProvide Portfolio Integration
APPLICATION DELIVERY
APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT
CHARTERSTORIES
RELEASE PLAN
DESIGN
CA Service Virtualization
CA ReleaseAutomation
CA APM / CA UIM
CA CLARITYCA GEN / CA PLEX
App Services Orchestrator
CA FILE MASTER PLUS
CA INTERTEST
CA SERVICE DESK
BUILD
IDEATION
FEEDBACK
MODEL
TEST
DEPLOYMONITOR
CA ENDEVOR SCM CA HARVEST SCM
DEVELOP
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Application Development PortfolioProvide Portfolio Integration
APPLICATION DELIVERY
APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT
CHARTERSTORIES
RELEASE PLAN
DESIGN
CA Service Virtualization
CA ReleaseAutomation
CA APM / CA UIM
CA CLARITYCA GEN / CA PLEX
App Services Orchestrator
CA FILE MASTER PLUS
CA INTERTEST
CA SERVICE DESK
BUILD
IDEATION
FEEDBACK
MODEL
TEST
DEPLOYMONITOR
CA ENDEVOR SCM CA HARVEST SCM
DEVELOP
SOFTWARE CHANGE MANAGER
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Application Development PortfolioProvide Portfolio Integration
APPLICATION DELIVERY
APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT
CHARTERSTORIES
RELEASE PLAN
DESIGN
CA Service Virtualization
CA ReleaseAutomation
CA APM / CA UIM
CA CLARITYCA GEN / CA PLEX
App Services Orchestrator
CA FILE MASTER PLUS
CA INTERTEST
CA SERVICE DESK
BUILD
IDEATION
FEEDBACK
MODEL
TEST
DEPLOYMONITOR
CA ENDEVOR SCM CA HARVEST SCM
DEVELOP
SOFTWARE CHANGE MANAGER
CA APPLICATION LIFECYCLE CONDUCTOR
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Application Development PortfolioProvide Portfolio Integration
APPLICATION DELIVERY
APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT
CHARTERSTORIES
RELEASE PLAN
DESIGN
CA Service Virtualization
CA ReleaseAutomation
CA APM / CA UIM
CA CLARITYCA GEN / CA PLEX
App Services Orchestrator
CA FILE MASTER PLUS
CA INTERTEST
CA SERVICE DESK
BUILD
IDEATION
FEEDBACK
MODEL
TEST
DEPLOYMONITOR
CA ENDEVOR SCM CA HARVEST SCM
DEVELOP
SOFTWARE CHANGE MANAGER
CA APPLICATION LIFECYCLE CONDUCTOR
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Application Development PortfolioBuilding the Right Kinds of Applications
Application Development leveraging the
Mainframe
Application Development forthe Mainframe
Legacy and Declining
New and Growing
The NEW Market for MF Application Development:
•Enterprises differentiate by providing services closer to the customer via mobile and web apps
• They utilize the Mainframe as the “System of Record” at the heart of the Dynamic Data Center
•Application developers are rapidly building new mobile and web applications that access Mainframe systems, their associated databases and application logic
• Much of this access is being provided through web services
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Application Development Portfolio
Evolve to better support web services– New action diagram statement
Integrate with other CA products– CA Application Lifecycle Conductor
– CA API Gateway
Strategy Implications for CA Gen
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Application Development Portfolio
Use CA Gen and/or other CA or third party products to expose backend services via web services
Use cloud based services– Some approved, some not
– Security constraints
– Availability concerns
CA Gen Integration with CA API Gateway
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Application Development Portfolio
Application gateway for exposing, securing and managing backend applications, network systems or infrastructure via APIs
Opens data and services to partners, developers, mobile apps, cloud services and smart devices
CA Gen 8.5 Incremental Release 3 provides this capability to easily publish CA Gen SOAP web services to the CA API Gateway
CA Gen Integration with CA API Gateway
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Application Development PortfolioCA Gen Integration with CA API Gateway
Google(REST)
Twitter(REST)
GS1(SOAP)
PS1(SOAP)
CA API Gateway (App Repository)
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Application Development PortfolioCA App Services Orchestrator
Google(REST)
Twitter(REST)
GS1(SOAP)
PS1(SOAP)
CA API Gateway (App Repository)
CA App Services Orchestrator
GS1(SOAP)
GS1(REST )
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Influencing Our Roadmap
Agile Development
Submit your ideas on communities.ca.com
Vote & comment on ideas that are important to you
CA Product Management reviews ideas and updates status as they move through the lifecycle
“Currently Planned” idea status indicates inclusion in Agile Backlog or Product Roadmap
Take the opportunity to influence our product development. Help ensure that we deliver is what you need and want.
CA Communities Ideation
Register to participate in:
– Monthly Reviews with Live Demos
– Private - Members Only -Online Community
– Pre-Release Onsite Testing and Support (Beta)
How to register: https://validate.ca.com
Customer Validation
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Support – Incremental and Complete Releases
8.0 IE1 IE2
8.5
Complete
IE1
Complete
IR2
Complete
8.6
AnnounceEOS
Complete
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Recent ReleasesCA Gen 8.0
Release each of last three years– CA Gen 8.0 May 2010
– Interim Enhancement - 1 April 2011
– Interim Enhancement - 2 January 2012
Interim Enhancements (IE) added functionality to the active release
Over 23 certifications to date for CA Gen 8.0 keeping the release relevant
End of Service announced August 31, 2016
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Features in CA Gen 8.0Slide 1 of 2
Support Dynamic RI Triggers for Blockmode and Servers
Created zLib for Blockmode and Servers
Multi-socket listener
DB2 package bind enhancements
Multi-row fetches
Larger models and subsets
New READ / READ EACH statement relational operators
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Features in CA Gen 8.0Slide 2 of 2
Identity columns (auto number)
Compatible release runtimes
Gen Studio
Web Enhancements– Web View
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Features in CA Gen 8.0 Multi-Row Fetch
Default is to not generate a Multiple
Row Fetch
Option to use the value of the
targeted group view to specify the
number of rows to be returned
Specify a range of 2 to 32,767 rows to
be returned
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Features in CA Gen 8.0 Larger Models and Subsets
Prior to this change, you could only download models and/or subsets containing fewer than 64,000 of any object type
Examples of object types include;– Views
– Attributes
After this change, you can download models and/or subsets containing as many as 1,000,000 of any object type
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Features in CA Gen 8.0 New READ / READ EACH statement relational operators
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Features in CA Gen 8.0 New READ / READ EACH statement BETWEEN operators
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Features in CA Gen 8.0 New READ / READ EACH statement IN operators
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Features in CA Gen 8.0 Identity Columns (aka Auto Number)
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Features in CA Gen 8.0 Interim Enhancement – 1
Certifications– Visual Studio 2010
– Mozilla Firefox
– JBoss
Web View UI Customization
Support Dynamic RI Triggers for Batch
Support for zLib for Batch
Performance improvements in z/OS Batch Processing
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Features in CA Gen 8.0 Interim Enhancement – 2
Support 64-bit Windows Servers
Custom Proxies and Web Services
Increased CFB Limit from 32K to 16MB (except for Mainframe)
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Features in CA Gen 8.0 IE2Gen Studio – Custom Proxies and Web Services
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Features in CA Gen 8.0 IE2CFB Extension
Increased the amount of customer data that can be sent between CA Gen clients and Distributed Servers using Common Format Buffer (CFB) from 32K to 16MB– Windows
– Unix & Linux (TCP/IP, MQ & Tuxedo)
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Recent Releases CA Gen 8.5
Releases– CA Gen 8.5 May 2013
– Interim Enhancement – 1 September 2014
– Incremental Release – 2 December 2014
– Incremental Release – 3 March 2015
– Incremental Release – 4 June 2015
“Incremental Releases” continue to add functionality to this active release
Over 70 DARs implemented in this release so far
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Features in CA Gen 8.5
Increased CFB Limit from 32K to 16MB for Mainframe (all platforms)
BLOBs – added CRUD actions and View passing
Support 64-bit Unix/Linux Servers (all Distributed Servers)
DB2 Table and Table Space partitioning
CA Gen Studio Web View - full generation
SOAP Middleware
Transaction Enabler (TE) Web Services
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Features in CA Gen 8.5CFB Extension
Increased the amount of customer data that can be sent between CA Gen clients and Mainframe Servers using Common Format Buffer (CFB) from 32K to 16MB– z/OS CICS (TCP/IP & MQ)
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Features in CA Gen 8.5BLOB Support for Cooperative Applications
Clients Servers
GUI C,C/COM Proxy
Java Client (JVM),Java Proxy
Java Web Generation,Java Web View
Gen C Server
Gen EJB Server,EJB Web services
OracleMS SQLDB2 (Embedded SQL, ODBC/ADO.NET, JDBC)
Gen .NET Server
COOP FlowsTCP/IP
MQ SeriesTuxedoJava RMI.Net Remoting
Support for binary large objects for generated applications Create, Read, Update, and Delete entity types containing BLOB attributes View support
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Features in CA Gen 8.5 Attribute Properties - BLOB
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Features in CA Gen 8.564-bit Support
Unix/Linux Transaction Enabler upgraded to 64 bit
CA Gen 8.5 supports Unix/Linux 64 bit generated server applications only– Available for Solaris, AIX and Linux
Support for 64 bit HP-UX Itanium already exists
– Existing 32 bit servers need to be recompiled for 64 bit
– Existing 32 bit EAB’s need to be recompiled with correct 64 bit flags
– 64 bit Tuxedo available for Linux
Windows 64 bit was released with IE2– GUI clients remain 32 bits Windows
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Features in CA Gen 8.5DB2 Table and Table Space Partitioning Plug-ins
Table Partitions – partition database tables based on the values of any column in the table
OR whenever the size of the partition exceeds a certain value
Tablespace Partitioning – partition database tablespaces based on growth or by pre-defining a
number of partition ranges
Available with DB2 version 9
Data is stored in the model and used by the DDL generator when generating CREATE TABLE and CREATE TABLESPACE statements.
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Features in CA Gen 8.5DB2 Table and Table Space Partitioning Plug-ins
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Features in CA Gen 8.5DB2 Table and Table Space Partitioning Plug-ins
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Features in CA Gen 8.5DB2 Table Space Partitioning Plug-ins
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Features in CA Gen 8.5DB2 Table Partitioning Plug-ins
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Features in CA Gen 8.5 Interim Enhancement this – 1
In-Line Code– Write native code and/or SQL statements not natively supported by the
CA Gen action language
– Write free-form source code and/or SQL to reference CA Gen views
– Pass data between hand-written code and the Action Diagram
Web Services Consumption– Via the CA Gen Action Diagram, provide the ability to call any web
service
– Support C- language targets for all CA Gen environments (i.e. clients, servers, block-mode, batch)
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Features in CA Gen 8.5 Interim Enhancement – 1
DB2 Features – DDL comment removal
– VARCHAR for text > 4000
– date/time/timestamp default values
– NULL for mandatory non-identifying relationships
Generate Proxies from UNIX CSE
Unlock Toolset if Upload to CSE Fails– Provide option to unlock the model in the toolset should error on upload
occur
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Features in CA Gen 8.5 Interim Enhancement – 1
Toolset Ease of Use Features– Allow creation of a new action diagram from the action diagram
selection list
– Default Import entity view optionality is set to mandatory
– Set default deletion rule when adding a relationship
– Pass selected items on Windows to plug-in applications
– Partitioning indicated for Data Structure and Data Store List Diagrams
– View matching dialogs displayed only when necessary
Certifications– Java 7, Visual Studio 2012, z/OS 2.1, COBOL 5.1
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Features in CA Gen 8.5 IE1Inline Code Statement - Dialog
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Features in CA Gen 8.5 IE1Inline Code Statement - Sample
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Features in CA Gen 8.5 IE1Web Service Consumption – Select Method Dialog
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Features in CA Gen 8.5 IE1Web Service Consumption – Parameter Matching Dialog
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Features in CA Gen 8.5 IE1Web Service Consumption - Sample
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Features in CA Gen 8.5 Incremental Release – 2
Web Service Consumption – Java
Increase toolset support for larger models / subsets
Add action diagram functions for BLOB (concat, substr, length, text-to-BLOB conversions)
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Features in CA Gen 8.5 Incremental Release – 3
Web Service Consumption – C#
Publish Gen web services to CA API Gateway
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Features in CA Gen 8.5 Incremental Release – 4
HP NonStop SQL/MX
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PlannedFeature Description Benefit
Add Filters to CA Gen List Dialogs
Allow for filtering lists found in the various CA Gen tools. Reduces the time and effort needed to find the desired model objects.
Allow DistributedApplications to be Upgraded Easier
Allow applications to be upgraded by installing only the latest CA Gen distributed runtimes.
Applications will not need to be regenerated or relinked eliminating the need for customers to upgrade their GUI applications all at one time.
Freemium Gen Provide a license free single-user copy of the Windows version of CA Gen.
Allows anyone to try before they buy, brush up on old skills or learn new ones.
BLOB Support on z/OS Currently supported for all CA Gen target environments except z/OS.
Will allow our Mainframe customers the same capability as our Distributed customers.
Web Services Consumptionfor COBOL
Currently supported for all CA Gen supported languages except COBOL.
Will allow our COBOL customers the same capability as already exists in our other languages.
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Potential Futures
Enhancements suggested on Gen EDGE Community Ideas– Add support for Left and Outer Joins
– Allow IN and BETWEEN clauses in all relational expression
– Allow action diagrams to be implemented as stored procedures
– Display statement numbers in the action diagram
Migrate Action Diagram, Data Model List Diagram, Window Designer, etc. to Gen Studio
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CA Gen and Mobile Devices
IET’s Rapide product allows current Gen models to be generated targeting tablets and smart phones– Android and iOS
– Multiple platform design
Browser, Tablet, Phone
Same procedure step, multiple layouts
– Native Controls and widgets
– Sophisticated layouts
CA has made minor modifications to the Toolset to support Rapide in a more integrated fashion
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Recommended Sessions
SESSION # TITLE DATE/TIME
MFX33EPre-Con Education: Delivering CICS Web Services for CA
Gen Applications10/17/2015 at 1:00 pm
MFX51SVision and Roadmap: CA Mainframe Application
Development and Testing Tools10/18/2015 at 2:00 pm
MFX35SGo Mobile to Mainframe with CA Gen and CA App
Services Orchestrator10/18/2015 at 3:00 pm
MFX39S Modernizing COBOL applications with CA Gen 10/19/2015 at 4:30 pm
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Follow Conversations At…
Demo Station: Mainframe Theater 6
Create Mobile-to-Mainframe Apps Faster (CA Gen)
DEMO STATION
Demo Station: Dev Ops Theater 3
Accelerate Web and Mobile App Development (CA ASO)
DEMO STATION
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