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Advantage CA-Idealfor CA-Datacom

Release 2.2 for z/OS and OS/390Product Announcement

Advantage CA-Ideal for CA-Datacomis a comprehensive applicationdevelopment system for the relational database environment. It provides an integrated

set of facilities that supports the entire application life cycle, including design,development, testing, production and maintenance.

Operating Environment:

Advantage CA-Ideal for CA-Datacom is compatible with all supported releases of z/OSand OS/390.

Highlights:

High-level procedural language.

Support for structured programming techniques.

Ability to embed SQL statements directly within Advantage CA-Ideal for CA-

Datacom PDL or to use FOR constructs to access SQL objects. Both Advantage CA-Datacom/DBDatabase and IBMs DB2 can be used to access SQL in the sameprogram.

Support for both online and batch applications.

Integration with Advantage CA-Datacom/DB Database and Advantage CA-DatacomDatabase Datadictionary Option.

Optional support for DB2 and VSAM.

Management control through authorization of Advantage CA-Ideal for CA-Datacomfacilities and active tracking of application objects.

Online impact analysis.

Non-procedural panel and report definition and prototyping.

Online compilation and testing.

Interactive symbolic debug facility.

Menus, commands and prompters support all levels of user expertise.

Comprehensive Help facility.

Intelligent editors that highlight errors for easy viewing.

Template generation from line commands.

Extensive print services.

Automatic library management.

Advantage CA-Ideal for CA-Datacom Release 2.2 for z/OS and OS/390Currently Available Generally Available (GA) Status

Major Enhancements:

WHEN ERROR Extension to FOR ConstructThe FOR construct now has the capability to handle data-access errors local to thecode performing the access. This allows more modular programming and simplifieserror handling.


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Resource Section Editor and Cross-System ResourcesPanels and reports used by an Advantage CA-Ideal for CA-Datacom program can

now reside in a different system from that of the program. This enables re-use ofthese entities without copying. In addition, the resource section editor has beenenhanced to support COPY, MOVE, REPEAT and other line commands.

Unmodeled Dataview Version and StatusMultiple versions of unmodeled dataviews (Sequential or VSAM) can now bemaintained. The TEST/PROD/HIST status sequence used is the same that is usedfor other Advantage CA-Ideal for CA-Datacom-maintained entities.

Command Issuing from Advantage CA-Ideal for CA-Datacom ProgramA mechanism is provided that lets Advantage CA-Ideal for CA-Datacom applicationsissue certain Advantage CA-Ideal for CA-Datacom commands. This allows

Advantage CA-Ideal for CA-Datacom to act as a scripting language to control its ownprocessing, such as transferring applications between systems.

Member Accessing from Advantage CA-Ideal for CA-DatacomProgramAn Advantage CA-Ideal for CA-Datacom program can now read or write anAdvantage CA-Ideal for CA-Datacom member sequentially, allowing, for example, aJCL stream to be sequentially updated without the need to read it all into localstorage.

Asynchronous Run SupportThe INITIATE statement is similar to the CALL statement except that it causes theobject program to be run in the background. The invoking program is not involvedfurther, and can continue processing.

Load Module Table EnhancementThe table that maps program and panel names to load module names can becustomized and pre-assembled to tailor it to individual CICS regions. This can alsoprovides a significant benefit in start-up performance.

31-Digit Numeric SupportNumeric fields can now contain 31 digits. Arithmetic operations in Advantage CA-Ideal for CA-Datacom have always used 31-digit precision internally, but it previouslywas not available for result storage.

31-Bit Operating EnhancementAdvantage CA-Ideal for CA-Datacom program load modules can now be linkedRMODE (ANY) and loaded above the line in CICS/ESA systems. The same appliesto the static I/O modules for DB2 support.

Element Length on ADDITIn addition to checks on data length when reading from Advantage CA-Datacom/DBDatabase, the data length is now provided to the database when updating orinserting, allowing it to be checked by the database.


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SQL ExtensionsOPTIMIZE FOR n ROWS

The FOR FIRST... construct in Advantage CA-Ideal for CA-Datacom nowautomatically generates an OPTIMIZE clause appropriate to the value or fieldspecified.

FOR FETCH ONLYThis clause is added whenever Advantage CA-Ideal for CA-Datacom scope analysisdetects that no updates are being made to the SQL data retrieved.

DECLARE CURSOR WITH HOLDESCAPE CharacterCONCAT Keyword

These options are now supported in embedded SQL. Initial values are supported forthe Advantage CA-Datacom Database SQL Option dataviews.

CBS-Access EnhancementsNull(s)DATE, TIME, TIMESTAMP$ERROR-CONSTRAINT-NAME

The above SQL-defined column types and attributes are supported when the table orview is accessed using CBS.

Advantage CA-Datacom/DB Database Release 9.0 Support

All SQL enhancements made in Advantage CA-Datacom/DB Database Release 9.0are now exploited in Advantage CA-Ideal for CA-Datacom, both as embedded SQLand generated by FOR constructs.

Web InterfaceUsing the CICS Web Interface (CWI), Advantage CA-Ideal for CA-Datacom can nowhandle HTTP requests and respond with HTML, XML or any other content type.Sample code is provided to illustrate different uses for this interface.

DB2 SupportSee SQL extensions above. In addition, RCT handling for CICS/DB2 is enhanced sothat DB2 upgrades can be handled by a simple site assembly of an offset table using

Advantage CA-Ideal for CA-Datacom and DB2 macros.

DB2 Package SupportPackages are now fully supported. There are new editors and commands to handlecreation, generation and maintenance processes for incorporated packages.

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