ca endevor® change manager technical - here and beyond…

CA Endevor® Change Manager Technical

- Here and Beyond…

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GA Release Status

- Endevor r4 SP2

- Available: August 2004

- Endevor r7

-GA: February 2005

- Endevor r7 SP1

-GA: September 2005

- Endevor r7 SP2

-GA: June 2006


Agenda

- Endevor r7 Recap

- Endevor r7 SP1 Recap

- Endevor r7 SP2

- Endevor r12 Development

- Beyond r12

- CM Enterprise Workbench Product Update

- CSCR Project

-Q&A


Endevor r7 Recap

-Multiple-entry stage

- Add to Stage 2

- Global type-sequencing

- Dynamic Approvers

- Package Ship enhancement

- Even more API Enhancements


Endevor r7 Recap (cont.)

- Component List Enhancement

-MCF User Data

- Additional Wildcard Support

-More functionality through CM Enterprise Workbench


Endevor r7 SP1 Recap

- Simplified Email Notification

- Elimination of Authorization Requirement

- Element Registration Processor Output Type Check

- CCIDs and COMMENTs across Sessions

- ISPF View Mode Option


Endevor r7 SP2

- “OPTION LISTING” added to PRINT ELEMENT SCL

- PACKAGE SHIP API

- Package creation without SCL

- Source/Target Symbolics


“OPTION LISTING”

- Provides an easy way to have Endevor print the listing from the listing repository

- ELIB

- Compressed PDS

- “PRINT ELEMENT * FROM… OPTION LISTING”

- Reflected in API and SCL

- Allows extension into testing tool

-Direct interface into, for instance, InterTest


Package SHIP API

- Can initiate a package ship event via API call

- Includes

- Listing destination

- Package shipment information - Also available with CSV utility

- Allows expansion of Package Shipment capability into CMEW


Package Create Without SCL

- Packages may now be created “empty”

- SCL can be added later as necessary

- Aligns closer with definitions of packages in Harvest

- Allows help desk facilities to initiate a package tied to an event that is later populated by developer


MOVE / TRANSFER Action Symbolics- Source / Target symbolics available to both MOVE and GENERATE processors

-Was only available to MOVE processors

- Limitations:- Source location symbolics not available if TRANSFER

from archive file


Endevor r12

- Common Product and Data Architecture

- “Best of” Harvest and Endevor

- Concurrent action processing option

- Promotion packages

- Age-driven element versioning

-More CSV Enhancements

- Usability Enhancements

- Eclipse Plug-in for Endevor


Common Product and Data Architecture- A steady migration of similarity

- Intention is to remove differences between Harvest and Endevor so the look and feel is “virtually” identical

- Enterprise Workbench plays a key role in providing the future interface to both products

-Watch for…

-Name changes!

- Architectural approaches


Concurrent Action Processing Option-Will dramatically increase batch Endevor element action throughput!

- It’s like breaking up a big JOB into small ones

- You define the number of concurrent action processors

- Improves batch, package and CM Enterprise Workbench throughput


Concurrent Action Processing Option- Actions performed concurrently within type

- Copy Members

-Macros

- Programs

- Links

-When a type is “complete” then thenext type is processed according to your type sequence definition

- Action execution messages will be returned to initial JOB for consolidated reporting


Promotion Packages

- Packages that can be reused without reediting the SCL within the package

- Two objectives:

-Once a package is built, it can be executed as many times necessary to complete the move to production

- Provide an audit trail of all executions of the package- ISPF displays

- Package reports

- API extracts

- CSV extracts


Promotion Packages

How it works:

- Package contains only MOVE actions

- After initial package execution:

- APPROVE – EXECUTE

- APPROVE – EXECUTE

- (Ad Nauseum)


Promotion Packages

- 2nd – “Nth” Execution

- After execution of a promotion package- Creates history records for previous package activity

- Updates package actions to reflect current element location (remember – this is only for MOVE actions)

- Performs normal CAST processing

-Next execution- Backout members deleted

- Actions executed


Age-Driven Element Versioning

- Element VV.LL automatic rollover

- Rather than retaining versions and then consolidating at set levels, will instead automatically increment version number!- 1.98 => 1.99 => 2.00

-Delta retention based on age- Administrators will be able to tell Endevor how long to

retain delta information- 2 years, 5 years, etc.


More CSV Enhancements

- List Element Change Summary

- Provide ability to list change level information from the Endevor API (needed by CMEW)

- Provide easy way for users to get at the historical change level data via the CSV utility

- LIST SMF Data

- Provide the ability to parse data logged on the SMF log tape for Endevor into CSV format for reporting


Usability Enhancements

- Allow Endevor ISPF environment field to be wildcarded

- This is one of the most popular DARS – to be able to search/list elements across environments that are not mapped.

-Will actually be available first in CMEW 7.1


More Usability Enhancements

- Allow “Where USERID” filter on ISPF panels

- Provide the ability to create selection lists in either Endevor or Quick Edit based on provided userid.

-Will not be reflected in SCL actions.

- The filter will support a single userid or wildcarded query, not a list.

- Introduce “horizontal scrolling”

- All new columns available- And sortable!


And Now… An r12 Preview

Or Maybe Screenshots


Quickedit Primary Panel


Quickedit Apply List Filters Panel


Quickedit Element Selection 1st Panel


Quickedit Element Selection 2nd Panel


Endevor Elements Display Panel


Endevor Apply Lists Filters Panel


Endevor Element Selection 1st Panel


Endevor Element Selection 2nd Panel


Endevor Element Selection 3rd Panel


Eclipse Plug-in for Endevor

- Eclipse – Platform designed to build Integrated Development Environments

- Interfaces easily with IBM’s WD4Z – IDE for mainframe

-Websphere Development for Zseries

- Sophisticated Editor

- “Quick-edit” from the PC


Web-Enablement Evolution – Today

STC

CMEW EndevorWebServices

ENF

Web Browser

Eclipse

Mainframe

Endevor

API


Web-Enablement Evolution – Interim

STC

CMEW

EndevorWebServices

ENF

Web Browser

Eclipse

Endevor

API


Web-Enablement Evolution - Goal

Endevor WebServices

ECM Endevor Web Browser

Eclipse CMDB Anything Else

Mainframe

Endevor

API


Other Endevor Future Candidates

- Clarity Interface

- ALTER ELEMENT SCL

- Footprint processing change

- Pre- and Post-Action Processing

-Online forms

-Move component list with history capability

- Security for USS/HFS files

- ACMQ filters and clarification information


Other Endevor Future Candidates

- Approver sequencing

- Ability to set or change symbolic values using IF-THEN-ELSE logic

- Additional processor symbolics and symbolic processing


Product Direction

- To meet the requirements of

-Our customers (‘Customers First’)- Respond to enhancement requests

- The market place- Stay competitive

- CA’s strategic needs (BSO)- Build features to achieve the strategy


Product Direction

- CA Change Manager

- Single set of terminology

- Single user interface

- Central point of control - Administration/management role-based focus


CM Enterprise Workbench r7

- Status: GA in July, 2005

- Highlights

- Enterprise Reporting

- Enterprise Package Impact Summary

- Simplified setup for Harvest

- Endevor Local File System support

- Use of Endevor site-wide defaults

- Express install


CM Enterprise Workbench r7.1

- Status: GA

- New for 7.1

- ‘Integration release’- Endevor web services (Phase1)

- Enterprise Package web services

- Endevor Package Ship

- SQL Server database support


CSCR

- All CA products being placed under Endevor or Harvest

-Many, many benefits!

- Improved product quality- We run products in GA mode before Beta

- Many different implementations- Better exposure to “odd” defects

- Improved product functionality- More exposure – more usability / feature ideas

Questions & Answers

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