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Summary of New Features and Enhancements

A brief description of each feature and enhancement introduced in Version 16.0 appears next. Links are provided only if more detailed descriptions follow.

Note: Users can view a similar brief summary of the new features and enhancements from within the product. See the Changes panel, which is accessible from the CA Endevor SCM Primary Options panel.

• Customization table changes— Various customization tables have been changed.
• CA Endevor Quick Edit— The following enhancements apply to CA Endevor Quick Edit:
  • Preserve VB Record Length in CA Endevor Quick Edit— The user can specify whether saving a variable formatted ISPF edit session preserves trailing spaces in the base element.
  • CA Endevor Quick Edit Eclipse-Based UI Enhancements— Additional element actions are supported to enable the user to perform all the product functions that are similarly available from the Quick Edit panel, except for the package and parallel development functions.

    Note: Only clients that purchase the CA Endevor Quick Edit option will have access to the Eclipse-Based UI.

  • ISPF Edit sessions— When creating or editing an element in an ISPF Edit session, the IBM ISPF Edit option HIDE X is supported.
• Best Practice Implementation— This method of implementing the product automates the process of allocating and customizing all the files that enable you to use the product.
• Productivity Enhancements— The following features have been enhanced to improve processing performance.
  • Autogen Action Option enhancements:
    • Autogen Span option— The Autogen action option is enhanced to add the Span parameter. Autogen Span automatically generates using elements found in different Systems and Subsystems within the Environment and Stage of the logical map of the target component element.
    • Autogen using Copyback— If the AUTOGEN_SOURCE option is activated in ENCOPTBL, when using elements are not found at the target location, the Copyback instead of the NoSource function is employed.
    • Autogen in Simulation Mode— You can run the Autogen option in simulation mode in batch to see what the results would be without actually performing actions with Autogen activated.
  • Concurrent Action Processing of Type Categories— The Global Type Sequencing feature provides a grouping capability that enables Concurrent Action Processing (CAP) to execute multiple Types simultaneously.
  • Web Services enhancements:
    • Web Services Performance Enhancements— Processing performance is improved with an STC pool. This option is enabled in the data source configuration file.
    • Web Services Get<Object> Service— Client programs can use various new get<Object> services that extract information from the Master Control File, Package File, or repository objects.
    • MODHLI High-Level Qualifier and Security— New security considerations affect client programs that use Web Services.
  • CA Endevor SCM Target Symbols— New target symbols can specify the target location of Move or Transfer actions made using the Move or Generate processor.
• Package Facility— The following enhancements apply to packages.
  • Package Ship enhancements:
    • USS Package Ship— Support is added for batch administration of USS supported files.
    • Ship Asis feature— You can ship outputs and backout members according to the element action backout status of the package.
    • Post-ship script execution— After the package ship process has completed at a remote destination, customer-written job steps (a script) can be conditionally set to execute at the remote destination.
  • Package Edit— When editing a package In an ISPF Edit session, the IBM ISPF Edit option HIDE X is supported.
• CA Endevor Integration for the Natural Environment— Various enhancements improve the usability and performance of CA Endevor Integration for the Natural Environment.
• Substringing of Symbolic Variables for Long File Names— The processing of the substring option when used with the symbols for long file names has changed. This processing change can produce a different result for these symbols.
• Print Element and Print Member— The following enhancement applies to the Print Element and Print Member actions. The output of the print action can have a record length of more than 121 bytes, if you specify the C1PRTVB ddname on the To clause. (This change was introduced as a Version 15.0 PTF.) For more information about C1PRTVB, see the Print Element Syntax or the Print Member Syntax in the SCL Reference Guide.
• Print Element— The NOCC option for the Print Element action is enhanced. This option suppresses the printing of a header on each page of output. Beginning with Version 16.0, for the PRINT ELEMENT MASTER output, other line feed characters in column 1 of the output are replaced with a blank space. In addition, when multiple elements are coded (using name masking) on the request, a blank line is printed between elements to separate the output. For more information about this option, see the Print Element Syntax in the SCL Reference Guide.
• CSV utility List Destination function extracted data— The column heads for data set DISP, UNIT, and VOLSER are changed to: HOST DSN DISP and REMOTE DSN DISP; HOST DSN UNIT and REMOTE DSN UNIT; and HOST DSN VOLSER and REMOTE DSN VOLSER. For more information about these fields, see Extracted Destination Data in the Utilities Guide.

Note: The product CA Mainframe Software Manager (CA MSM) has been renamed to CA Chorus™ Software Manager (CA CSM). CA Endevor SCM Version 16.0 has been certified for CA CSM Version 05.1.00.