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Introduction

This guide describes the CA Service Desk Integration (CAISDI), which enables CA mainframe z/OS products to automatically generate requests and incident tickets in CA Service Desk. CAISDI is a CA product that runs on Windows and UNIX systems. This chapter provides an overview of mainframe integration and outlines the CA products that support this interface.

This section contains the following topics:

Integrating CA Mainframe Products

Reducing the Extended Incident Lifecycle

Open and Flexible Interface

Sample Incident Scenario

CA Mainframe Products That Support the Interface

CAISDI Component Overview