Date: August 2019

To: CA Gen Customers
From: The CA Technologies CA Gen Product Team
Subject: General Availability Announcement for CA Gen 8.6 Complete Release

On behalf of CA Technologies, a Broadcom Company, we appreciate your business and the opportunity to provide you with high-quality, innovative software and services. As part of our ongoing commitment to customer success, we regularly release updated versions of our products. Today, we are pleased to announce that CA Gen 8.6 Complete Release is now available.

Some new features of CA Gen 8.6 Complete Release are:

• Marquee Features on z/OS
  • Dynamic Gen Runtime uses CICS TS 5.4, IMS V15, and MQ V9.1
  • z/OS DB2 Universal Call Attach (DSNULI) Support for CICS and Batch
  • Support 8 character userids
  • Certifications – MQ V9.1, IMS V15, Db2 12, CICS TS 5.4

• Marquee Features on Distributed Platforms
  • TLS Support – Secure communication to CICS through Client Manager, GUI, C Proxy, Java Proxy
  • Secure C Functions – Generation changes related to C (from Toolset and CSE)
  • .NET 4.0 Framework Support – Generated .NET applications from Toolset and CSE
  • Chrome and Edge Browser Support – Java (Internet and WebView) and .NET web applications
  • Call External Statement enhancements – Option for custom Error handling and basic authentication using user exit
  • Java 11 Support for generated applications – Existing and newly generated code can be built and executed
  • Secure (https) SOAP Web service consumption from Call External for C, Java and C# runtimes
  • Replaced Oracle JRE with Adopt OpenJDK (not for generated applications)
  • Certifications – Visual Studio 2017, JBoss EAP 7.2, MQ 9.1, WAS 9, Windows Server 2016, SQL Server 2016, Oracle 18c (runtime), DB2 v11

You can download your copy of CA Gen 8.6 Complete Release from the CA Support Online Solution Downloads https://casupport.broadcom.com/. If you have any questions or require assistance contact CA Customer Care online at http://www.ca.com/us/customer-care.aspx where you can submit an online request. 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.

The CA Gen 8.6 Complete Release product documentation details all product features and how to install and use the product. To see all content, go to docops.ca.com/gen and log in with your CA Support credentials.

If you are using CA Gen on z/OS, we recommend that you use CA Chorus™ Software Manager (CA CSM) (formerly known as CA Mainframe Software Manager™ (CA MSM)) to download and install CA Gen. CA CSM is designed to automate product acquisition, installation, deployment, configuration and maintenance and remove SMP/E complexities. CA CSM helps save time and resources when compared with the manual steps used to perform these tasks.  

Should you need any assistance in understanding these new features, or implementing this latest release, our CA Services experts can help. For more information on CA Services and how you can leverage our expertise, please visit www.ca.com/services. To connect, learn and share with other customers, join and participate in our CA Gen CA Community at https://communities.ca.com/.

To review CA Support lifecycle policies, please review the Working with Broadcom Support located at https://casupport.broadcom.com/. 


Thank you again for your business.