CA MICS r14 Current State Announcement
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24 May 2019
Date: August 26, 2015
To: CA MICS Customers
From: The CA Technologies CA MICS Product Team
Subject: CA MICS r14 Current State Announcement
On behalf of CA Technologies, we appreciate your business and the opportunity to provide high-quality, innovative software and services. As part of our ongoing commitment to customer success, we regularly release updates to our products.
Unlike in the past CA MICS r14.0 is not planned for release this summer and with no plans to release a maintenance service pack. We are targeting the first half of 2016 for r14.0. We recommend contacting CA Support Online (https://support.ca.com/) to request any maintenance that is available for you to get your installation current. Below you can also find a list of newly supported technologies added since September, 2014, via PTFs.
| Technology | Description | PTF |
| Support for z13 mainframe | IBM CPU Measurement Facility Support for z13 SMF type 113 Records | RMF7035 |
| Support for z/VM MultiThreading | Support for z13 Processors and z/VM SMT | VMC6720 |
| Support for CTS r5.2 and r5.3 | Support for CICS Transaction Server Releases 5.2 and 5.3 | CIC6795 and CIC6810 |
| Support for ASG-TMON r4.0 | Support for ASG-TMON CICS TS Release 4.0 | CIC6803 |
| Support for TS7700 r3.2 | Support for TS7700 Version 3.2 | TAP7120 |
| Support for IDAA r4.1 | Support for IDAA 4.1 | DB26855 |
| Support for MQ r8.0 | Support for Shared Message Datasets | MQS6645 |
| Toleration Support for next release of IMS | Support for processing IMS Next Log data | IMS6655 and LDE6655 |
| Support for Generic WLM Resource Delay and GRS QScan Statistics | Generic WLM Resource Management Delay and GRS QSCAN Statistics | RMF7020 |
| Support for zEDC in SMF component | Support for zEDC Usage Statistics | SMF6975 |
| Support for LBI | Large Block Interface (LBI) Support | BAS7785 and ACT7295 |
CA Technologies continually works to improve our software and services to best meet the needs of our customers. The CA MICS R&D team is focused on z/OS 2.2 release support which should be introduced in the upcoming months. In addition, support for the PCIe card, support of SCM for CF, and the new Wiki is currently being finalized.
We would also like to kindly inform you that Sprint Review meeting will be held on September 24, 2015, 10:00 a.m. ET. For information on how to attend this meeting, please contact Michal Koch, Product Owner of CA MICS Resource Management at [email protected].
Finally, in case you were not able to attend the PAC meeting that was held on the June 18, 2015, and you are interested in hearing in greater detail what our plans are for the CA MICS r14.0 release, you can view the recording once you register at validate.ca.com and opt-in to project CA MICS Resource Management where it is under section Sprint Reviews.
We are dedicated to ensuring that your use of CA MICS Resource Management is successful, and we thank you for your continued support of CA Technologies.
If you have any additional questions regarding the support of current releases, planned releases or main PTF's feature, please contact CA MICS Resource Management CA Support at CA Support Online (https://support.ca.com/), your local CA Account Manager, a member of the Customer Success Team, or CA Customer Care online at http://www.ca.com/us/customer-care.aspx where you can submit an online request using the Customer Care web form: https://support.ca.com/irj/portal/anonymous/customercare.
You can also call CA Customer Care at +1-800-225-5224 in North America or see http://www.ca.com/phone for the local number in your country or join the discussion on MICS communities site (https://communities.ca.com)