Product Brief CA IDMS™ At a Glance Key Features CA IDMS™ is a cost-effective, reliable, highly-performant, and secure database management system for IBM Z that delivers outstanding business • Zowe Conformant REST API. value for hundreds of enterprises and government organizations around Flexibility to leverage modern the world. A powerful database engine providing network and relational tooling to address the skills access exploiting the latest hardware and software technologies including challenge and automate systems the IBM z Systems Integrated Information Processor (zIIP). management minimizing risk of system outages. Business Challenges • Zowe command line interface. Enabled use of modern scripting Data is a business’ most valuable asset fueling new apps and services languages. that differentiate it in the market. Because mission critical data lives on the mainframe, corporate database systems must be highly scalable to • Zowe CLI Plug-in. Enables users to interact with the mainframe in a handle ever-increasing business demands. These systems must be open familiar format. and extensible to support existing applications, and enable modern digital transformations without requiring costly rewrites and conversions. • Standard SQL. Query and update existing legacy databases without Companies need a reliable database repository with enterprise-wide, migration or conversion while high-volume workload and fault-tolerant capabilities. They also need preserving existing apps. transformation techniques designed to improve performance, scalability, • ODBC and JDBC drivers. Access platform support, standards compliance, and usability, while simultaneously data and reuse legacy application reducing costs. code through IDMS Server APIs. Without a unified way to get ahead of nonstop demands for data, your • MQ adapter. Interface for CA IDMS organization could continue to experience the following challenges: applications to send and receive messages that can be zIIP enabled. • Struggling to provide 24x7x365 availability of an increasing numbers of • CA ADS zIIP eligibility. Allows CA apps and services. IDMS ADS dialogs to execute in SRB • Applying more resources to manage, administer, and optimize databases. mode making them eligible to run on zIIP specialty engines. • Relying on manual processes and having difficulty identifying performance bottlenecks. • Transaction server. Run online applications written in COBOL, PL/1, • Facing a growing talent shortage as retirement reduces the pool of and CA ADS in a high-performance technically skilled workers. environment. • SYSPLEX enabled. Helps provide Solution Overview scalability and high availability for CA IDMS provides high-performance database management and online applications. transaction processing performance for existing and new workloads, • Single, integrated database helping you to consolidate business functions on a central data repository. architecture. Supports relational as well as navigational, record-at-a- CA IDMS delivers cost-effective and reliable database processing. The time processing. system helps to unlock the value of your core business data by making it extensible. • Large database support. Segmentation and page group features support large databases. CA IDMS Product Brief CA IDMS REST API, SQL, and Server (JDBC and ODBC) opens up CA IDMS data to the Key Benefits digital world of Web, mobile, cloud, analytics, and distributed business applications. • Rapid response time and 24x7 availability for critical applications and business services. • Modernization capabilities to participate in mobile, cloud, Web, and analytics. • High-volume workload scalability designed for efficiency and to help Web and Web and CA IDMS Data reduce costs. Mobile Apps Application and Business Logic • Performance improvements through Servers automated data collection and reporting. Solution Overview (con’t) Zowe CLI Plug-In Supported Environments Allows users to execute and CA IDMS enables you to achieve the automate commands and admin CA IDMS runs on any IBM following objectives: tasks using common tools and supported release of z/OS. techniques. • Cut storage requirements – Shrink database storage (DASD) Related Products and Support for Industry Standards requirements and improve ROI SQL, ODBC, and JDBC have Solutions without impacting CPU cycles. emerged as industry standards for • Mainframe Vitality Program • Optimize performance – Quickly database access. CA IDMS supports – Helps to attract, grow, and measure COBOL and CA IDMS full-relational capabilities, including retain mainframe resources and ADS applications running in the relational access to existing CA skill sets to create a sustainable CA IDMS environments. Pinpoint IDMS network data. mainframe workforce. problems before they arise when • CA IDMS Presspack – Performs CA IDMS SQL Virtual Foreign Key you combine CA IDMS with compression on CA IDMS tables, This feature exposes network sets related solutions. reducing the amount of DASD as referential constraints, enabling required to store data. Critical Differentiators you to use standard SQL to query, insert, update, and delete network • CA IDMS Performance Monitor – Modernization without Disrupting records with capabilities similar to Provides system and application Business-Critical Applications native DML. statistics for multiple systems CA IDMS has been aggressively to enable system tuning and enhanced to incorporate the latest Distributed and Web Access to CA problem diagnosis, and support technologies and industry standards IDMS integration with CA SYSVIEW. with upward-compatible support for Offers the ultimate flexibility for – Provides current data and applications. effective business services by • CA Endevor/DB software change management enabling full-upward compatibility for CA IDMS Integrated Data Embracing the Concept of Open without requiring you to make Dictionary (IDD) objects. through Zowe Conformant or changes to the existing network Stand-alone REST APIs databases and applications. Leveraging APIs provide a familiar and flexible way to manage CA For more information, please visit: IDMS with modern tools and user broadcom.com/idms interfaces enabling freedom of choice. For product information and a complete list of distributors, visit our website at: broadcom.com Copyright © 2020 Broadcom. All Rights Reserved. The term “Broadcom” refers to Broadcom Inc. and/or its subsidiaries. Broadcom, the pulse logo, Connecting everything, CA Technologies, the CA technologies logo, and CA IDMS are among the trademarks of Broadcom. CS200-216135-1120 November 5, 2020.