CA Gen Updates: Application Modernization and What's New
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The document discusses upcoming changes and new features in CA Gen releases 8.5 and 8.6. Key highlights include: - Inline code statements that allow native 3GL code or SQL in the model for more flexibility. - Web services consumption functionality to easily integrate with modern APIs by calling SOAP web services from action diagrams. - Distributed applications will be easier to upgrade in release 8.6 by installing only the latest CA Gen runtimes instead of regenerating applications. - A free limited edition of CA Gen will be available for training and education purposes.
CA Gen Updates: Application Modernization and What's New
- 1. World® ’16 CA Gen Updates: Application Modernization and What's New Steve Solomon - CA Gen – Sr. Principal Product Manager - CA Technologies MFX52S MAINFRAME
- 2. @CAWORLD #CAWORLD For Informational Purposes Only Terms of this Presentation © 2016 CA. All rights reserved. All trademarks referenced herein belong to their respective companies. The presentation provided at CA World 2016 is intended for information purposes only and does not form any type of warranty. Some of the specific slides with customer references relate to customer's specific use and experience of CA products and solutions so actual results may vary. Certain information in this presentation may outline CA’s general product direction. This presentation shall not serve to (i) affect the rights and/or obligations of CA or its licensees under any existing or future license agreement or services agreement relating to any CA software product; or (ii) amend any product documentation or specifications for any CA software product. This presentation is based on current information and resource allocations as of November 1, 2016, and is subject to change or withdrawal by CA at any time without notice. The development, release and timing of any features or functionality described in this presentation remain at CA’s sole discretion. Notwithstanding anything in this presentation to the contrary, upon the general availability of any future CA product release referenced in this presentation, CA may make such release available to new licensees in the form of a regularly scheduled major product release. Such release may be made available to licensees of the product who are active subscribers to CA maintenance and support, on a when and if- available basis. The information in this presentation is not deemed to be incorporated into any contract.
- 5. 5 © 2016 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.@CAWORLD #CAWORLD Mainframe (and Beyond) § CA Gen is managed by the CA Mainframe Business Unit § Customers use CA Gen on the Mainframe § Customers use CA Gen without the Mainframe § CA Gen modernizes applications to meet your needs for development and deployment
- 6. 6 © 2016 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.@CAWORLD #CAWORLD CA Gen: Enterprise Application Development § CA Gen is an Enterprise Class Rapid Application Development Platform spanning Mobile to Mainframe § CA Gen addresses all these challenges with a single, integrated development environment that allows development teams to create and maintain large-scale business applications for multiple platforms and multiple architectures. Using agile development methods, you can build new enterprise applications, design and implement reusable software components, web-enable applications, modernize legacy applications, and integrate systems from a single model using a single developer skill set. Be more reactive to change and lower your software costs, because with CA Gen, design changes are made in a model, not in the code. Visit with Reno on YouTube for a fun 5 minute overview of CA Gen Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-aNB7sTThA Use this video to explain what you do to your Wife and Children
- 7. 7 © 2016 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.@CAWORLD #CAWORLD CA Gen – Focus on Business Rules Not Code Model-Driven Development for Enterprise Applications Integrated Modeling Environment • Design changes occur in the model, not in the code • Quickly adapt to business opportunities Repository and Automated Code Generators • Increase developer productivity • Reduce maintenance costs • Increase application quality Flexible Application Deployment • Deploy across a variety of platforms and architectures • Change platform without rewriting code R u n A n y w h e r e
- 10. 10 © 2016 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.@CAWORLD #CAWORLD Toolset Encyclopedia (Utilities) Generators • Procedure Action Diagram • Screen Design • Navigation Design • Component Arch Diagram • Entity Relationships • Data Structure •... • Event Language Gen • Dialog Mgr Gen • C/S Gen • Screen Gen • Database Gen • RI Gen • Remote File Gen • Make File Gen • Windows Gen • Rapid Test Meta Model • Mainframe or • Unix or • Windows • Objects • Properties • Associations • Operating System • Database • TP Monitor • Language • Communications • Model Mgmt • Subset Mgmt • Version Cntl • Reporting • Migration • Check In/Out • Conversion • C/S Encyclopedia Gen Parms Server Web/Appl Server (or traditional client) DB DB Comm Runtime Generated Appl. ClassesGenerated Appl. Classes Comm Runtime Generated Appl. dlls Generated Appl. dlls Generated Appl. dlls Generated Appl. dlls • TCI/IP • MQSeries • Tuxedo • LU 6.2 • ECI Servern Run TimeDesign Time Build Tool Genned Code 3rd Party Libraries Server Rumtime Build Script (Platform Specific) Build Tool Genned Code 3rd Party Libraries Client Runtime Build Script (Platform Specific) • Rapid Testing • Wizards • Templates • Customizable i/f • Treeviews • ... Generated Appl. ClassesGenerated Appl. Classes Build Time C A G e n A r c h i t e c t u r e CA Gen has 80+ Options for CA and Partners to extend and support your business to drive modern applications
- 11. 11 © 2016 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.@CAWORLD #CAWORLD CA Gen Releases – Agile Development Process 8.0 IE1 IE2 8.5 Complete IE1 IR2 Announce EOS IR3 8.6 IR4 IR1 Complete 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 CA Gen 8.6 – June 2016 Incremental Release - 1 Target 2017 Q1 “Incremental Releases” continue to add functionality to the active release Release 8.0 End of Support August 2016 IR2
- 12. 12 © 2016 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.@CAWORLD #CAWORLD Inline Code Statement – Arrived in Release 8.5 Allows You to Insert and Use Native 3GL Code or SQL Statements BENEFIT Inline Code Statement • Coding, compiling, and linking External Action Blocks (EAB) is cumbersome • External code must be maintained separately from CA Gen development environment • New Action Diagram statement that provides the ability to add free-form source code and/or SQL that can reference and pass data between the hand-written code and CA Gen views • Write native 3GL code not supported by the CA Gen Action Diagram Language • Write SQL statements not supported by the CA Gen Action Diagram Language • Hand-written code is saved in the model/encyclopedias PAIN SOLUTION See it on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVlHBmKMC3c
- 14. 14 © 2016 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.@CAWORLD #CAWORLD Web Services Consumption – Arrived in Release 8.5 Allows You to Call SOAP Web Services Much Like Calling an External Action Block BENEFIT Call External Web Service • Calling web services requires External Action Block (EAB) • Coding, compiling, and linking EABs is cumbersome • External code must be maintained separately from CA Gen development environment • New Action Diagram statement that provides the ability to call SOAP web services much like calling an EAB • Parses the WSDL to determine methods • Selecting a method allows you to match Action Diagram views to the selected methods parameters • Makes it easy to integrate and/or consume functionality from other systems • Integrate with Modern API Enabled Applications • Language Independence for Common Components PAIN SOLUTION See it on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuBd2v6jfyQ
- 15. 15 © 2016 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.@CAWORLD #CAWORLD Distributed Applications Easier to Upgrade – Release 8.6 Allow Applications to Be Upgraded by Installing Only the Latest CA Gen Distributed Runtimes BENEFIT Easier Upgrades • Upgrading to the latest CA Gen release previously meant regenerating and retesting their applications • Retesting could be a very time consuming effort • Allow applications to be upgraded by installing only the latest CA Gen distributed runtimes so that applications do not need to be regenerated or relinked • Eliminate the need for customers to upgrade their GUI applications all at once • Customers will now be able to upgrade simply by replacing the CA Gen runtimes • Only regenerate and retest applications when making a business change PAIN SOLUTION 8.0 8.5 8.6 8.7 Regen Regen No Regen Required
- 16. 16 © 2016 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.@CAWORLD #CAWORLD Free CA Gen – Release 8.6 Free Limited Edition for Training and Education BENEFIT Train New CA Gen Engineers • Learning about new CA Gen Releases requires a full download and install • Training New CA Gen Developers is expensive as they need a full Commercial License • Installing CA Gen in Training Rooms expensive • A new Free Version of CA Gen is available on the CA Gen EDGE User Community • This new version can be installed anywhere without licensing costs • Installs on Windows PC • Experiment with new CA Gen features in a safe and secured environment without changing your primary development • Training centers can now have access to CA Gen • Removes Roadblock for anyone interested in learning CA Gen and improving their skills PAIN SOLUTION
- 17. 17 © 2016 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.@CAWORLD #CAWORLD CA Gen Modernization Trends § Mainframe – Adoption of IBM COBOL 5.1 and 6.1 – Moving from SNA LU 6.2 to TCP/IP for all Communications § Distributed – Adoption of MS Visual Studio 2015 – Still using Solaris 10? – Request to support CA GEN CSE on IBM z/Linux and/or Linux? § Mainframe to Distributed Migration – REST – The API Economy – Upgrades to Releases 8.5 and 8.6 – Java and C# for Distributed – Moving from Mainframe Encyclopedia to the Distributed Encyclopedia
- 18. 18 © 2016 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.@CAWORLD #CAWORLD Roadmap: CA Gen Timeline as of November 2016 Marquee Features/ Business Value Planned Under Consideration Delivered Planned Under Consideration Product/ Releases CA Gen 8.5 §Increased CFB Limit from 32K to 16MB §BLOB Support §Support 64-bit Servers §DB2 Database Partitioning §SOAP Middleware CA Gen 8.5 IE1 §Inline Code §Web Services Consumption (C) §Additional DB2 Features §Ease of Use – Tool Set CA Gen 8.5 IR2 §Web Services Consumption (Java) §BLOB Action Diagram Functions CA Gen 8.5 IR3 §Web Services Consumption (C#) §Publish CA Gen Web Services to CA API Gateway CA Gen 8.5 IR4 §New target: HP NonStop SQL/MX CA Gen 8.6 § Making searching lists in Gen easier § Remove ReGen Requirement for Distributed Applications when upgrading CA Gen § Free Version of CA Gen § Certifications (Visual Studio 2015 support, Windows 10, Java 1.8 (update 60 or later),MS SQL Server 2014 SP1, and Oracle 12c for CSE) CA Gen 8.6 IR1 § Add Date/Time to Timestamp function § New Version for Solaris 10 (8.5 and 8.6) § Certification: Windows 10 for Release 8.5 § Certification: IBM COBOL 6.1 § Performance and Large Scale Stress Testing (CICS Focus) § Allow SSL web services (SSL handshake) to be called from Gen action diagrams for C Language CA Gen 8.6 IR2 § Windows Edge Browser Support § SSL/TLS Security Encryption for Communications § Certification: Windows .NET 4.x § Certification: IMS 14 § Improved Tab Control in CA Gen for GUI § Allow SSL web services (SSL handshake) to be called from Gen action diagrams for C# and Java Languages § Performance and Large Scale Stress Testing (IMS and Batch Focus) CA Gen 8.6 IR3 (Conceptual) § CA Endevor Integration for MF DevOps § CA ALC Integration for MF DevOps § REST Enablement § Improved Java Generation for Multi Platform § Certification: Windows Server 2016 Key Themes § Stay current § Improve the Developer Experience § Listen to the customer § Improve Security § Improve the ability to train new CA Gen Developers CA Gen 8.x (Ideas) § Display statement numbers in the action diagram § Allow action diagrams to be implemented as stored procedures § Use a local group for IN clause § PERFORM Local action § Web Services Consumption (COBOL) § Allow SSL web services (Authentication) to be called from CA Gen action diagrams
- 19. 19 © 2016 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.@CAWORLD #CAWORLD Influencing Our Roadmap § Submit your ideas on communities.ca.com § Vote and 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. Help Us Help You Drive Innovation in Your Business CA Communities Ideation § Register to participate in: – Live Demos/End-of-Sprint Reviews – Private - Members Only - Online Community – Pre-Release Onsite Testing and Support (Beta) – Upgrade Support from SWAT Team § How to register: https://validate.ca.com Customer Validation Links: https://communities.ca.com/welcome (CA Gen Edge Community) https://validate.ca.com/home.html (CA Gen Group) Agile Development
- 20. 20 © 2016 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.@CAWORLD #CAWORLD Partners Also Have Great CA Gen Options § IET’s Rapide product allows current CA 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 § IET GuardIEn – CA Endevor Integration Link: http://www.iet.co.uk/rapide/ Link: http://www.iet.co.uk/Products/GuardIEn/ Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuBd2v6jfyQ Fix up layout to fit …again- icons? Probably not for actual products. See next slide. GM
- 21. 21 © 2016 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.@CAWORLD #CAWORLD Access Gen – Increase development agility APMConnect – Improve application performance QA Console – Automate quality assurance Upgrade Console – Automate CA Gen upgrades Web Services GENius – CICS web services for CA Gen Facet/Response Systems Link: http://www.facet.com.au/ca-gen-consulting.html Application Modernization Solutions to take Hand Crafted COBOL Into CA Gen, with code Refactoring to improve maintenance and Options to convert CA Telon to CA Gen
- 22. 22 © 2016 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.@CAWORLD #CAWORLD Recommended Sessions SESSION # TITLE DATE/TIME MFT148S Achieve DevOps on the Mainframe for Faster Time to Market 11/16/2016 at 4:30 pm MFX110V Mainframe Application Modernization for Enterprise Developers – Using CA Gen 11/17/2016 at 1:45 pm
- 23. 23 © 2016 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.@CAWORLD #CAWORLD Must See Events Free CA Gen Product Demo Demo Station on the Show Floor Event Night Rob Thomas Concert 6:30 – 9:30 pm Welcome Reception Tuesday Night 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm CA Gen Edge Community Meeting Wednesday Night TBD