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Services Provided by CCS

CAIRIM

Prepares your operating system environment for all of your CA Technologies applications and then starts them.

CAICCI

Provides CA Technologies enterprise applications with a common communications software layer that insulates the applications from dealing with protocol specifics, error recovery, and system connection establishment.

CAIENF (Base, CICS, and DB2)

Provides comprehensive operating system interfacing services to any of the CA Technologies z/OS applications.

CAIENF/CICS SPAWN

Enables CA Technologies applications to start the CICS units of work from outside the CICS region. This facility provides a layer that isolates the application software from CICS release dependencies.

Management of z/OS UNIX System Services (CAIENF/USS)

Encapsulates and integrates the management of UNIX System Services applications on z/OS. This service enables management applications to process system events occurring in the z/OS UNIX System Services subsystem.

CAISDI

Provides a set of services that open CA SDM requests from the z/OS environment. Open the requests directly with CA Technologies products or open them on their behalf, depending upon the requirements of each specific product using the interface.

CAISSF

Provides an external security mechanism for controlling and monitoring access to all system and application resource processes.

CA LMP

Provides a standardized and automated approach to the tracking of licensed software.

Earl Service

Combines a user‑friendly report-definition facility with the power of a comprehensive programming system. Earl Service lets you modify and print the contents and layout of a predefined CA Technologies application report using English‑like statements.

Easytrieve Service

Provides easy-to-use information retrieval, sophisticated report writing, and comprehensive application development capabilities. The Easytrieve Service is a limited version of the generally available, full-featured product. The product lets you modify the contents of an Easytrieve application that is provided with another CA Technologies product. If you have CA Easytrieve installed at your site, you do not need to install the Easytrieve Service from CCS.

SRAM Service

Allows the activation of several sorts concurrently and simplifies the data and logic flow. The user program can manipulate the incoming data in a high‑level language without the need for special exit routines.

CA‑C Runtime

Insulates the programs from system and release dependencies.

CA‑L‑Serv

Provides the CA‑L‑Serv services that CA Technologies products use, including CA Software Change Manager for Mainframe, CA Bundl, CA Balancing, CA TPX Session Management for z/OS, and CA MIC.

CA‑GSS

Lets various CA Technologies products communicate and provides access to information from various sources.

CA‑XPS

Enables cross‑platform scheduling for CA Technologies products including CA Workload Automation ESP Edition, CA Scheduler JM, and Unicenter CA-Jobtrac.

Examine

Provides a tool for CA Technologies Support to collect and report on installed instances of CA Technologies products at a particular customer site. This service is useful for troubleshooting problems.

CA Health Checker Common Service

Provides CA Technologies applications with a framework for invoking IBM Health Checker Health Check routines in a consistent and easy to implement manner. This lets CA Technologies products add reporting capabilities or recommendations for optimizing product settings as real-world experiences dictate. Optional product features that re activated can also be pointed out. The Health Checker results are constant real-time reviews of product settings.

CA Technologies product health checks run under the IBM Health Checker for z/OS. To register CA checks, the IBM Health Checker must be active. For more information about the IBM Health Checker, see the IBM Health Checker for z/OS User Guide appropriate for your release of z/OS.