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CA Common Services for z/OS

CA Common Services for z/OS includes distributed services common to CA implementations and solutions specific to z/OS. CA Common Services for z/OS provides a common interface and event services to create multiple, unified resource views.

This z/OS hosted enterprise management architecture expands the choice of what and where to manage, similar to how CA Common Services works on Windows and UNIX platforms. CA Common Services for z/OS also contains the essential components and functionality to enable integrated management of z/OS.

CA Common Services for z/OS includes support for applications based on z/OS UNIX System Services. CA Common Services for z/OS also furnishes the Agent Technology infrastructure to run z/OS Agents.

CA Common Services for z/OS lets you:

• Integrate your mainframe with other distributed platforms.
• Manage emerging z/OS workloads such as Web servers, Java applications, and UNIX applications.
• Use existing CA z/OS management solutions to create events that can be routed to other enterprise platforms where such events can create desired business outcomes.
• Achieve enterprise wide, automated, high level monitoring and management of critical resources using sophisticated manager and agent technology, together with CA products.