Pre-Con Ed: CA Testing Tools Educational Session (Part 3 of 3): CA Mainframe Application Tuner Demo and What's New
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The document presents the CA Mainframe Application Tuner (MAT) demo and updates discussed at CA World 2016, focusing on enhancements aimed at improving application performance in z/OS environments. It outlines the challenges in mainframe DevOps, introduces the capabilities of CA MAT, and highlights new features in release 11, including GUI enhancements and better DB2 support. The session aims to educate attendees on leveraging MAT to optimize application performance and reduce costs.
Pre-Con Ed: CA Testing Tools Educational Session (Part 3 of 3): CA Mainframe Application Tuner Demo and What's New
- 2. 2 © 2016 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.@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.
- 6. 6 © 2016 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.@CAWORLD #CAWORLD Development Deployment & OperationalTesting Challenges to Delivering Innovations … Continuously Developers Release Team Operations TESTBUILD DEPLOY Testers OPERATE Deploy to Production Cultural Barriers, Large Code Monoliths Constrained Environments Test Environment Provisioning Challenges Manual Testing and Scripting Incomplete Test Cases and Data Cross-Enterprise Delivery, Coordination and Visibility Lack of Integrated Toolsets IDLE TIME DELAYS Code/Integrate/ Build Functional & UA Testing Performance Testing defect RE-WORK defect defect DELAYS DELAYS RE-WORK
- 9. 9 © 2016 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.@CAWORLD #CAWORLD CA Mainframe Application Tuner § Enables performance management teams to quickly identify the root cause of application performance issues in z/OS based systems § Provides proactive application performance analysis to help organizations easily improve applications run time, CPU consumption and response time § Provides the application view of performance for system and performance programmers, application developers and database administers What Is CA MAT? Performance Analysis Cycle Collects In-depth Performance Metrics Identifies Tuning Opportunities Identifies Performance Trends Suggests Applications to Target
- 12. 12 © 2016 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.@CAWORLD #CAWORLD CA Mainframe Application Tuner Supports over 20 Sub-Systems and Languages CA MAT Supported Languages: § COBOL § PL/I § Assembler § C § C++ § REXX § CA Ideal™ § Natural Websphere Application Server JAVA Virtual Machine JDBC JAVA Transactions Batch Processes IMS CICSDB/2 VSAM TSO MQ CA IDMS CA Datacom Adabas
- 13. 13 © 2016 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.@CAWORLD #CAWORLD Product Overview CA Mainframe Application Tuner § Performance Engineer § Systems Programmer § Application Developers Business Problems Addressed Key CapabilitiesPersonas § Identify performance opportunities in complex applications § Helps applications reduce CPU consumption and transaction response time § Easily measure application performance § Provide root cause analysis reporting § Integration with CA SYSVIEW®, CA Endevor® Software Change Manager
- 15. 15 © 2016 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.@CAWORLD #CAWORLD Technology and Product Architecture Goals CA Mainframe Application Tuner Technology Goals § Currency & exploitation – continuously provide support for all supported subsystems and languages § Improve overall customer experience and ease of use by simplifying the install and GUI analysis reporting to encourage greater adoption by Application Developers § Deliver customer requested enhancements Product Architecture Goals § Simplify installation, deployment and configuration § Provide the necessary artifacts and API’s for Integration with other CA solutions § New functionality supplied with JAVA / Metal C coding § Enhanced Eclipse UI § Leverage common service integration opportunities § Exploit z architectural components to improve TCO
- 17. 17 © 2016 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.@CAWORLD #CAWORLD What’s New In CA MAT Release 11? § CA MAT GUI Enhancements – Ease of use improvements to provide ISPF functionality within the CA MAT GUI framework § Provide the ability to delete a monitor profile with or without deleting the monitor data set § Allow the display of existing and creation of schedules § Deliver filtering / sorting capabilities within the CA MAT GUI – Improved initial analysis with the addition of an Overview Dashboard Summary – Improved CA MAT GUI installation and documentation – Provide the framework to utilize host communication within the CA MAT GUI using one common TOMCAT server
- 18. 18 © 2016 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.@CAWORLD #CAWORLD What’s New In CA MAT Release 11? § CA MAT DB2 Enhancements § Support for DB2 data collection utilizing DB2 Instrumentation Facility Interface (IFI) § Ability to choose either traditional CA MAT DB2 data collection intercept tracing or DB2 IFI § IFI collection will provide SQL statement, count, CPU time and average response time § CA File Master Plus for DB2 for z/OS for managing DB2 data § Provide initial framework to support for DB2 V12 § Added improved customer requested global default parameters
- 19. 19 © 2016 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.@CAWORLD #CAWORLD What’s New In CA MAT Release 11? § Provide improved reporting of IMS Caller ID attribution § Introduced support for VSAM Record Level Sharing (RLS) datasets § Support for Pre – GA DB2 V12 § Added improved customer requested global default parameters for CICS measurement and reporting
- 20. 20 © 2016 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.@CAWORLD #CAWORLD What’s New In CA MAT Release 11? § Currency Delivered: CA MAT Supports Over 20 Languages and Sub-Systems – z/OS 2.2 – Cobol 5.2 & 6.1 – CICS CTS 5.3 – IMS r14 – Initial support of pre-release DB2 v12 – PL/I 4.5 & 5.1 – C++ Complier 2.1 & 2.2 – CA Datacom / Ideal R14 & R15 – CA IDMS RI9
- 28. 28 © 2016 CA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.@CAWORLD #CAWORLD Recommended Sessions SESSION # TITLE DATE/TIME MFX112S Mainframe App Dev Portfolio Review 11/16/2016 at 12:45 pm MFT148S Achieve DevOps on the Mainframe for Faster Time to Market 11/16/2016 at 4:30 pm MFX162S Crack Open the Big Black Box for Faster Problem Remediation 11/17/2016 at 12:45 pm