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CA Simplifies IMS Management with Solutions That Support IMS v10

Business Wire, Feb 6, 2008

CA File Master Plus for IMS and CA Database Management r11.6 for IMS Address Customers' Evolving Requirements

ISLANDIA, N.Y. -- CA (NYSE: CA) today extended its leadership position in the mainframe management market by delivering its latest solutions for IMS that address customers' evolving performance, protection and staff productivity requirements while supporting IMS v10, the latest version of IBM's popular mainframe database environment.

CA File Master Plus for IMS, a new product, provides a complete set of powerful and easy-to-use tools for managing IMS data. CA Database Management for IMS r11.6 enables database administrators to better optimize performance, streamline essential administration tasks, and ensure reliable backup and recovery of critical IMS data.

"IMS is a strategic platform for many CA Global 2000 customers--which include many of the world's largest banking, healthcare, insurance, and telecommunications companies," said David Schipper, vice president of product management for CA. "By enabling these customers to more effectively manage their IMS environments, CA's newest mainframe management solutions allow them to improve service delivery, reduce costs, and improve their responsiveness to the incessantly escalating demands of the business."

CA File Master Plus for IMS simplifies IMS data management with advanced capabilities including segment selection filtering for streamlined access to data and an intuitive graphical display of database segments. Its powerful precision-engineered extraction, browsing, editing and updating capabilities increase IT staff productivity across multiple IMS environments. To maintain IMS data integrity and to ensure that IMS-dependent applications perform as expected, users can easily access and edit IMS data and test applications.

CA File Master Plus for IMS is the latest addition to the CA Application Quality and Testing Tools suite, which includes solutions for mainframe application debugging, abend diagnostics, automated testing, code optimization and application performance management.

CA Database Management for IMS r11.6 encompasses interoperable, integrated solution suites for database performance management, administration and backup and recovery that improve service levels, data availability and application responsiveness across IMS for z/OS databases.

CA also supports IMS v10 throughout its security management, systems management, performance management, resource management, testing and report generation product lines.

"We are pleased that CA continues to provide timely support for new IMS releases," said Steve Potkonjak, IMS database administration manager at St. George Bank. "With this support, we can implement IMS v10 with the full confidence that we will be able to maintain the same level of control, performance, data protection, and operational efficiency that CA's solutions have always provided for us."

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