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Services Provided by CA Common Services for z/OS

CA Common Services for z/OS provides the following services:

• CAIRIM—Prepares your operating system environment for all of your CA applications and then starts them. It is the common driver for a collection of dynamic initialization routines that eliminate the need for user SVCs, SMF exits, subsystems, and other installation requirements commonly encountered when installing systems applications.
• CAICCI—Provides CA 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 z/OS applications, exploiting technologies such as relational database architectures, for the benefit of the entire product line. The level of integration is improved by enabling operating systems and CA software‑generated event information to be driven through a standard interface, simplifying multiple product‑to‑product interfaces and associated maintenance that would otherwise be necessary.
• CAIENF/CICS SPAWN—Enables CA applications to start 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 Service Desk requests from the z/OS environment. The requests can be opened directly by CA products or they can be opened 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. CAISSF is already well integrated into many CA enterprise applications, and is used by other CA Common Services for z/OS services as well. It provides security services for user signin, resource access control, process use control, and recording and monitoring of violation activity.
• 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 allows you to modify and print the contents and layout of a predefined CA 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, which allows you to modify the contents of an Easytrieve application that is provided with another CA product. If you have CA Easytrieve already installed at your site, you do not need to install the Easytrieve Service from CA Common Services.
• SRAM Service—Allows the activation of several sorts concurrently, thereby simplifying the data and logic flow. The incoming data to the sort can be manipulated as desired by the user program in a high‑level language without the need for special exit routines.
• CA‑C Runtime—Insulates programs from system and release dependencies.
• CA‑L‑Serv—Provides the CA‑L‑Serv services that are used by CA products including CA Endevor Software Change Manager, CA Bundl, CA Balancing, CA TPX Session Management for z/OS, and CA MIC Message Sharing. These services include centralized logging and messaging facilities, VSAM file management, cross‑system communications, and SQL table management.
• CA‑GSS—Allows various CA products to communicate easily, seamlessly, and reliably, thereby providing quick access to information from various sources. CA‑GSS provides connectivity by using a collection of one or more REXX subroutines that are edited, compiled, and executed as a single program.
• CA‑XPS—Enables cross‑platform scheduling for CA products including CA 7 Workload Automation, CA Scheduler Job Management, and CA Jobtrac Job Management.
• Examine—Provides a tool for CA Support to collect and report on installed instances of CA products at a particular customer site. This service is useful for troubleshooting problems.
• CA Health Checker Common Service - Provides CA applications with a framework for invoking IBM Health Checker Health Check routines in a consistent and easy to implement manner. This allows CA products to add reporting capabilities or recommendations for optimizing product settings as real world experiences dictate. Optional product features that should be activated can also be pointed out. The Health Checker results are constant real-time reviews of product settings.

  CA product health checks run under the IBM Health Checker for z/OS. To successfully register CA checks, the IBM Health Checker must be active. For more information about the IBM Health Checker - including set up and configuration tasks - see the IBM Health Checker for z/OS User's Guide appropriate for your release of z/OS.