Pre-Con Ed: CA Testing Tools Educational Session (Part 2 of 3): Learn, Engage and Grow your Mainframe Testing Toolset with CA InterTest and CA SymDump

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Learn,EngageandGrowyourMainframeTestingToolsetwithCAInterTest® andCASymDump™MichaelDuBoisVP,ProductManagement

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Abstract

Learn,engageandgrowwiththeCATestingToolscommunityofpractitioners.Inthiseducationalsession,wewillcoverthelatestupdatestotheCAInterTest andCASymDump products,aswellascommonusecasesthataresurfacingacrossourSprintReviewsthatarehelpingouruserssavetime,savemoneyandbecomemoreproductivetodeliverhigh-qualitymainframeapplications.

MichaelDuBoisCATechnologiesVP,ProductManagement


Agenda

MAINFRAMEDEVOPSSTRATEGY

CAINTERTEST ANDSYMDUMP PRODUCTOVERVIEW

QUESTIONS?

TECHNOLOGYANDARCHITECTUREGOALS

PRODUCTROADMAP

WHAT’SNEWINRELEASE10?

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MainframeDevOpsStrategy


Development Deployment&OperationalTesting

ChallengestoDeliveringInnovations…Continuously

Developers ReleaseTeam

Operations

TESTBUILD DEPLOY

Testers

OPERATE

DeploytoProduction

CulturalBarriers,

LargeCodeMonoliths

ConstrainedEnvironments

TestEnvironmentProvisioningChallenges

ManualTestingandScripting

IncompleteTestCasesandData

Cross-EnterpriseDelivery,

CoordinationandVisibility

LackofIntegratedToolsets

IDLETIME DELAYS

Code/Integrate/Build

Functional&UATesting

PerformanceTestingdefect

RE-WORK

defect defect

DELAYS DELAYS

RE-WORK


IntroducingMainframeDevOpsSolutionCAoffersSolutionsin4keyareastofosterprinciplesofAgileandDevOps

ContinuousMonitoringContinuousTestingAgileDevelopment ContinuousDeliveryDevelopandmaintainmainframeapplicationswithagileandmodernmethodologies,toolsetsandcodinglanguages

TESTEarly&Often

DEVELOPSwiftly

DEPLOYReliably

OPERATEEfficiently

ContinuousFeedbackLoop

Reducetestcycletimesandcostsofmainframetestingforbettertimetomarketandmainframeeconomics

Removethebarrierstobusinessagilityonthemainframe,withautomationtoreducetimetomarketandmanageskillsgaps

UnifymonitoringandperformancemanagementacrossmobileandmainframeteamsforbetterMTTRandlowerskillscosts


ProductOverview


ProductOverview

§ CAInterTest andCASymDump helpsapplicationprogrammersbyprovidingbothinteractivedebuggingandfaultanalysisreportsonfailingapplications.

§ SourcelevelsupportforCOBOL,PL/I,andAssemblerenablesapplicationprogrammerstodiagnoseandresolveproblemsmoreeasilyusingtheirownsourcecode.

§ DebuggingandreportingisavailablefromTSO/ISPForCICS,inbatchorfromamodernEclipse-baseduserinterfacedeliveredaseitherastandalone(RCP)applicationorasaplug-intoEclipseorEclipse-basedIDEs.

WhatareCAInterTestandCASymDump?

DebuggingandFault

Management

InteractiveDebugging

ManageSymbolic

Information

ModernDevelopmentEnvironments

FaultAnalysisReports


CAInterTest andCASymDumpProductOverview

§ ITManagement– Ops

§ SystemsProgrammer

§ ApplicationDevelopers

BusinessProblemsAddressed KeyCapabilitiesPersonas

§ ApplicationQuality

§ ApplicationUnderstanding

§ ProblemDetermination

§ MainframeSkillsShortage

§ Robustdebuggingofmainframeapplicationsandprograms

§ Fastresolutionofmainframeapplicationfailures

§ IntegrationwithCAEndevorSCM,CAMAT,andCAFileMasterPlus


TechnologyandArchitectureGoals


TechnologyandProductArchitectureGoalsCAInterTest andCASymDump

TechnologyGoals

§ Currency&exploitation– IBMhardwareandOSsoftware§ Currency&exploitation- CICS|IMS|DB2|§ Currency&exploitation- IBMEnterpriseCOBOLandPL/ICompilers

ProductArchitecture

Goals

§ Simplifyinstallation,deploymentandconfiguration§ IntegrationwithotherCAsolutions§ EnhancedEclipseUI


What’sNewInRelease10?



§ StreamlinedInstallation– SinglePAXfiledeliversfourCAInterTest andCASymDump products– Installonceintocommontargetanddistributionlibraries

§ Optionstillexiststoinstallseparatelyifnecessary– CommonconfigurationanddeploymentusingCACSM– Commonproductdocumentationondocops.ca.com– Easiermaintenance– fewerartifactstomanage– Savesprecioustimeandreducesduplicateeffort!– Productlicensingremainsunchanged



§ CombinedEclipseRCP– OnecommonEclipse-basedgraphicalUIwithtwoseparateperspectives

§ CAInterTest fordebuggingBatchand/orCICSprograms§ CASymDump foranalyzingBatchand/orCICSprogramfailures

– Oneinstallation,onedesktopicon,oneapplication– Usebothperspectivesatonce– Hostcommunicationusingonecommonserver– Productlicensingremainsunchanged– NewTerminationConfirmationPop-upwhenexiting

§ Optiontoremoveallbreakpointsbeforetermination





Display- COBOLIndexItem

Release9.1

Release10

modify-displaymode

What’snewinRelease10- COBOLNumericIndexItems


+(command)increasesvalueby1

- (command)decreasesvalueby5

Keep/Autokeep -COBOLIndexItems(numericvalue)

modify-displaymode

What’snewinRelease10- COBOLNumericIndexItems


What’snewinRelease10- AfterBPLineCommand


What’snewinRelease10§ AbendProgramFilterTable(CASymDump Batch)

– IdentifyCommonAbendHandlingprogramstobeexcludedfromdumpindex– ActivatedonLPARlevel

§ NewCAVHCONFmacrokeyword:ABEND_PGM_FILTER=NO |YES– Customerspecifiedprogramnametable

§ CAVHFMODSTART§ CAVHFMODFILTER,PROGRAM=name§ CAVHFMODEND

– ImpactsDumpIndexcontentonly– Filters/removesmatchingprogramname(s)andreplaceswithprogramnamefromthe

previous/highercalllevel§ Forexample

– CAVHFMODcontainsPROGEandPROGEissuesDUMPSVCorabends§ PROGAcallsPROGB§ PROGBcallsPROGC§ PROGCcallsPROGD§ PROGDcallsPROGE

– DumpIndexwillshowabendoccurredinPROGDatoffsetwherePROGEwascalled.


What’snewinRelease10§ ExternalSecurityforSymbolicFileactions

– Optional– ReplacesSymbolicFilepassword(SYMPSWD=12345678)– ActivatedonLPARlevelbynewCAVHCONFkeyword.EXTSEC=SYMBOLIC– UseyourexternalsecurityproducttocontrolSymbolicFileactions

§ Newentitiesforexistingexternalsecurityclass– CA@NTSYM– VHALTER– AllowsSymbolicFileINITIALIZEandUPDATE(options)capabilities– VHCONTR– AllowsSymbolicFileProgramDELETE,PURGE,RELOAD

– Symbolicfilereadandaddingofnewlistingsbypostprocessorsarenotprotected– NoJCLchangesrequired

§ WhenEXTSEC=SYMBOLICisactiveIN25UTILignoresPASSWORDcontrolstatements§ ‘FM’commandsupportedforBatchLinkdebugging

– DirectlinktoCAFileMasterPlusprimarymenuusingForegroundorBatchLinkdebugging


What’snewinRelease10§ CAInterTest forCICS– Save/RestoreDebuggingCommands

– SaveandRestoremonitorandbreakpointcommandsbyUSERIDorFromTerminal– SimilarcapabilitytoEclipseUIwhichisavailabletoday!– Customerspecifiedtestsessionnames– DatasavedtoVSAMKSDSforCICSregions(PROTMLOG)– Individualsaveddebugsessionscanbeviewedanddeleted

§ CAInterTest Batch– Save/RestoreDebuggingCommands– SaveandRestoremonitorandbreakpointcommands– SimilarcapabilitytoEclipseUIwhichisavailabletoday!– Customerspecifiedtestsessionmembernames– DatasavedtoINT1CLIBmembers(partitioneddataset)– Individualsaveddebugsessionscanbeviewedanddeleted


What’snewinrelease10–AddscreencapturesforMLOG






What’snewinRelease10

§ Currency– IBMEnterpriseCOBOL6.1– IBMCICSTS5.3– ARCH(11)supportforCOBOLandPLICompilers– 32and64bitEclipsePlug-ins– IBMrDZ9.5certification


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