The following statement defines the CA Gen support and certification policy for z/OS and its included components (MVS, Comm Server, JES, and so on) as well as IMS/TM, CICS/TS, Enterprise COBOL, and DB2:
CA will support any current version of Gen (for those operations expressly supported by Gen) with all releases currently also supported by IBM. For example, if Gen is released when supported IBM z/OS versions are 1.10, 1.11 and 1.12, Gen will support those versions at that time. If z/OS 1.13 is subsequently released and z/OS 1.10 is dropped during the Gen releases supported lifetime, the now supported versions would be 1.11, 1.12 and 1.13, and support for z/OS 1.10 is withdrawn.
CA will not provide material support to assist in the operation of Gen on non-supported releases of these IBM products, regardless of their status at the time the currently supported Gen release(s) were first made available. So, in the above example where support for z/OS 1.10 is withdrawn, any current CA Gen release(s) would no longer be supported on that release of z/OS.
CA will perform certification testing only at major version changes for these products. For example, CICS/TS certification testing would be performed for release 5.1, and again for 6.1, but not for 5.2. CA will, when warranted by product changes, perform additional certifications between versions on an ad hoc basis.
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