The Release Notes for CA XCOM Data Transport for Windows Server/Professional documents both new features and changes to existing features for r11.6.
Note: The Release Notes Release 11.6 Second Edition documents changes due to 64-bit support.
This section contains the following topics:
UNICODE and Multi-Byte Character Set Support for Data Transfer
Transmission Password Encryption Cipher Selection
Removal of Java Dependency for XML Parsing
Cross Platform Additional Parameters
CA XCOM Data Transport for Windows 64-Bit
CA XCOM Data Transport currently performs data transfers utilizing one of three data formats – ASCII, EBCDIC, or Binary. This enhancement allows for transmission of text files that are encoded using multi-byte character sets, including in-flight conversion of data between different character sets.
The ICU (International Components for Unicode) toolkit is utilized for performing data conversion operations by CA XCOM Data Transport.
More information:
CA XCOM Data Transport always protects the password during transmission by using encryption. Prior to r11.6, the password was encrypted using a CA XCOM Data Transport proprietary password encryption algorithm. It consists of 2 key elements (a fixed and a variable element) which are combined to form a symmetric encryption key that is used to encrypt the transmitted password.
With CA XCOM Data Transport r11.6, the encryption cipher used to protect the password during transmission can now be selected using parameters. Permitted ciphers include DES, 3DES, AES, RC2, RC4 and the existing CA XCOM proprietary algorithm.
More information:
The Get History Records screen has been enhanced with several new features including an auto-refresh option and additional search fields.
More information:
The CA XCOM Data Transport GUI allows users to create configuration files which can later be reloaded into the GUI or used at the command line. Configuration files created by the GUI are saved in XML format. In CA XCOM Data Transport r11.5, when XML format configuration files are processed Java based routines were used to parse the file.
The use of Java based routines required CA XCOM Data Transport to load the Java executables and create a Java virtual machine for each command line transfer. This resulted in increased overhead and memory usage required for the Java virtual machine.
For CA XCOM Data Transport r11.6, the Java Dependency has been removed for XML parsing thus eliminating the overhead and memory usage required for the Java virtual machine.
CA XCOM Data Transport r11.6 includes support for additional parameters used by other CA XCOM Data Transport partner systems.
More information:
A new history update SQL file, histupdateDB.sql, is installed during installation of CA XCOM and is required to be run for those History database users upgrading from r11.5 to r11.6. This needs to be done in order to support the new enhancements made with this version of CA XCOM.
The XCOMEHRP CA Easytrieve report has been enhanced to display the new parameters added for the UNICODE feature as well as displaying the fields for zIIP statistics for any z/OS transfers run on a zIIP processsor. In addition, the value of the Last Message is now being displayed.
A new option has been added to the XCOMTCP command for Transmission Password Encryption.
CA XCOM Data Transport tests reachability of the remote CA XCOM Data Transport Server and displays information about CA XCOM Data Transport Server.
XCOMTCP –ping command example:
xcomtcp -ping REMOTE_SYSTEM=XX PORT=XX TRNENCRL_CIPHER=ALL XCOMN0882I PING INFO FOR <SYSTEMNAME> XCOMN0882I RELEASE=r11.6 SP00 GEN LEVEL <LEVEL> SYSTEM NAME=<SYSNAME> SYSTEM ID=<SYSID> XCOMN0882I NEGOTIATED CIPHER=<CIPHER>
CA XCOM Data Transport r11.6 maintenance level 13011 or higher is compatible with:
If your CA XCOM Data Transport server is allied to CA XCOM Gateway, specify the CA XCOM Gateway version using the new GATEWAY_VERSION Global Parameter.
More information:
Using CA XCOM Data Transport with CA XCOM Gateway, see the section About CA XCOM Gateway in the CA XCOM Data Transport for Windows Administration Guide.
|
Copyright © 2013 CA.
All rights reserved.
|
|