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MAINFRAME UPDATE
Times are uncertain... But we’re making sure your customer experience isn’t.
Operating in today’s global economy is fraught with uncertainty. In these days, partnership is everything — especially those in which your voice matters and your needs are met. This is particularly true when it comes to the health and longevity of your mainframe — the beating heart of your IT infrastructure and the foundation for your most critical customer experiences. In the latest episode of ‘Conversations with Dez’, Vikas Sinha, Broadcom Mainframe Software Division VP of Global Customer Experience and Strategic Alliances, outlines the many ways Broadcom strives to make your customer experience top-notch and how you can take advantage of all the opportunities we have to offer. Listen in.
To those who joined Broadcom and toasted with us at the Open Mainframe
Summit — thank you! We hope you enjoyed the wealth of knowledge-sharing,
thought leadership, and innovative insights from the mainframe experts featured
at the conference. It was an impressive showing! If you missed any sessions or
want to replay your favorite ones, you can find the full conference playlist here.
Open Mainframe Summit 2020 Rewind: Margaritas and Mainframes
THIS MONTH’S FEATURED ITEMS
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GSE UK 2020 2-12 November 2020
Registration is open for the 2020 Mainframe Technical Exchange Digital Experience! Join Broadcom technical experts and
your peers from across the globe October 13 - 15 for this exciting event. We are bringing technical education sessions,
product demos, ideation discussions, and product roadmaps directly to you. At the event, you will have the opportunity to:
• Participate in educational and “how-to” sessions for your CA Mainframe products
• Provide feedback on features in development
• See what’s coming in the latest product roadmaps
• Join live Q&A sessions with Product Management, User Experience and Development team members
Watch the video invitation from Greg Lotko, SVP & GM, Broadcom Mainframe Software Division and register today!
The annual GSE UK event will be taking place virtually this year, and Broadcom is proud to be a Platinum
Sponsor. Tune into a keynote featuring Greg Lotko on Monday, 9th November at 2:15 p.m. GMT. You'll be able to
get over 150 hours of Mainframe education over a two week period with the ability to participate real-time or
view sessions on-demand. Be sure to check out the sessions on the Broadcom track on key topics including
DevOps, AIOps, Security, Open Mainframe, Zowe and much more. You can view the conference agenda here.
Register now.
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Meet your 2020 Educational Goals through SHARE Virtual 2020
Explore Mainframe Software product offerings from Broadcom to expand your knowledge and skills today, all at no cost for
active maintenance customers!
• Two-Minute YouTube Video – Quickly learn how to access and navigate Learning@Broadcom
• FAQ Support Registration – Review frequently asked questions about accessing customer support and education
• Learning Paths – Not sure which education courses to take? Explore tailored learning paths containing relevant role-based training that will help you succeed
• Mainframe Education Community – Our Mainframe Education team is continuously working on new learning material. Sign up to our Community page to stay up-to-date on the latest courseware releases
• Course Catalog – Browse the inventory of available Mainframe Product Web-based Training (WBTs) and Instructor-led Training (ILTs) opportunities -- see below for available courses
The SHARE Virtual 2020 environment remains available through the end of the year, allowing you to continue to build your mainframe skills and meet your educational goals. You can now access the entire library of sessions from Broadcom and other members of the ecosystem on-demand here.
Mainframe Digital Badge Program Broadcom’s Mainframe Digital Badge Program enables you to earn and showcase your credentials and growing skills in Broadcom Mainframe products, solutions, and programs. Promoting them is easy through social networks such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. How many do you have?
Get Started! Begin or advance your badge journey by visiting the Mainframe Broadcom page on the Credly/Acclaim platform. We recently published new badges for CA SYSVIEW, CA NetMaster and CA ACF2, in addition to CA Endevor, CA IDMS and CA Datacom. We’re continually adding more badges — so check back often!
Associate Software Engineering Program Update We are now extending our Associate Software Engineering (ASE) Program to our customers around the world at no cost and, adding to its convenience and value, it is now available virtually.
Customer feedback: “They were amazing and took the time to explain everything. It was a lot of information, but they had patience and are clearly passionate about the mainframe. Thank you guys!”
To learn more and check ASE program availability, please reach out directly to the ASE Program Manager: jennifer.scott@broadcom.com
Mainframe Communities Upcoming Mainframe Community Events
• October 7: CA Mainframe Operational Intelligence Roadmap
• October 14: CA Output Management Roadmap
• October 21: CA Db2 Suite Product Roadmap
• October 22: CA Brightside Office Hours
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DevOps Template - CA Gen, CA Endevor, and Zowe
Streamline Development with Zowe Explorer & Zowe CLI In the third of his 3-part series, Broadcom software engineer Alex Dumitru shares his experiences with these popular Zowe tools
for REXX coding. Read the entire series as Alex explains how you can now automate tasks to make your time to feedback more
efficient and simplify your development process.
DevOps is a broad topic, and there can be many valid variations to any approach. That flexibility is nice, but can make it hard
to decide where to start. To make things easier we provide templated instructions to show how to integrate CA Gen with other
tools. To lead off, we’ve written a DevOps paper, based on an internal proof of concept, demonstrating one approach for a
CA Gen CICS block-mode application leveraging CA Endevor® and Zowe.
In the spirit of DevOps, feel free to experiment to make it work for you. This is just one of many tools for your DevOps tool belt
when working with CA Gen.
On Ramp to Open DevOps for Mainframe
Zowe Download Site
Mainframe Software Division CTO, provided an inspiring overview of
Broadcom’s “Open-first” approach to mainframe DevOps. Check it out.
Life just got a bit easier. Now access all Zowe components from a company-authorized,
trusted website. This new Broadcom site addresses policies that restrict downloads from open
source sites. Learn more.
George DeCandio, Mainframe Software Division CTO
Let us know what you think and what you’d like to read about next.
• Join the discussion on the CA Gen EDGE Community
discussion thread.
susan.brude@broadcom.com.
Digital Experience, October 13-15, 2020. Session
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Opportunity Unfolding: Tracking the Adoption Journey of AI in ITOps
Organizations have been aware of the promise of AI and
Machine Learning for advancing Ops for years, but we are now
entering a new era where the explosion of data and evolving
computing models are poised to take AI from niche use cases to
widespread adoption, including on the mainframe. But what are
the touchstones that will determine how far and fast adoption of
AIOps should or will occur? And what’s on the horizon? Find out
how AIOps can help your business deliver greater value as you
look to the future.
trusted environment for your customers by easily identifying
and reducing risk from threats. It can quickly interpret and
assess the security posture of your Mainframe. And, for
risky findings, it helps develop remediation steps – all on an
ongoing and ad hoc basis. CA Security Insights output is also
available for organizations to use with additional in-house
tools such as SOC and SIEMs.
SECURITY
AIOps from Broadcom®
Overview For businesses today, delivering optimized, high-value digital experiences is not just important, it is a matter of survival. Consequently, the pressures on IT teams continue to mount. IT teams work under this pressure while they strive to track and manage service levels, and contend with the increasingly dynamic, hybrid, and distributed nature of their computing environments.
To meet their charters, operations teams need AIOps from Broadcom. This solution enables IT teams to establish proactive, automated remediation capabilities that fuel superior user experiences, while offering fundamental breakthroughs in scale and efficiency.
Business Challenges The quality of service levels that businesses deliver through their digital channels is now a make-or-break competitive factor. Customers predominantly interact with businesses through digital channels, and that experience is what distinguishes one business from the next. Organizations serve a user and customer base with increasingly stringent expectations. Therefore, downtime, or even slow performance, can deliver a significant hit to an organization’s reputation and revenues. However, while it seems delivering optimized service levels only continues to get more critical, meeting this objective only continues to get more challenging. IT teams are tasked with managing traditional on-premises systems and dynamic new technologies, including containers, serverless, cloud, virtual, and software-defined components.
Plus, IT teams have to contend with explosive growth in the volume, variety, and velocity of operational data associated with multi-cloud, microservices, and IoT environments. Compounding matters is the fact that these teams have tended to deploy operations monitoring and automation in a siloed, opportunistic fashion. Ultimately, these point monitoring and automation tools are ineffective and inefficient in managing modern environments.
Key Benefits • Boost service levels. Harness the
predictive insights and orchestration capabilities that enable you to automatically identify and remediate issues.
• Enhance operational efficiency. Eliminate manual efforts, streamline workflows, enhance collaboration, and establish autonomous operations.
• Enhanced scalability. Gain the automation and insights that help to scale operations and services.
• Enhanced agility. Speed up your agility and improve the quality and speed of your DevOps project.
Key Features • Predictive issue identification. Provides
machine-learning algorithms that predict potential issues that could affect service levels.
• Holistic visibility. User experience and performance analytics for applications, infrastructure, and networks provide comprehensive visibility into your digital delivery chain.
• Zero-touch automation. Rapid, reliable, fully orchestrated service delivery. A broad integration portfolio that ranges from mainframes to modern, cloudnative applications, microservices, and serverless approaches.
• Automated topology mapping. Discovers and maps IT assets and delivers rich analytics.
• Cross-domain correlation. Gathers and correlates intelligence from multiple layers and domains to fuel automated root-cause analysis.
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IDUG EMEA 2020 is now a virtual event taking place November 16–19, 2020. Registration is now open!
Broadcom is proud to be a Platinum Sponsor for this new event. The IDUG EMEA Conference Planning Committee is hard
at work updating the event format and program. More details will be coming soon.
For our Latin American clients, IDUG will be holding two virtual seminars during December 8 and 9 (Brazil), and December
10 (Mexico). These events will feature content in the respective native languages of each region, and Broadcom will be
presenting several sessions at each.
Registration is now open for the BRAZIL and MEXICO seminars, with additional event details coming soon.
IDUG EMEA Db2 User Conference is Going Virtual!
REST APIs? Yes indeed! The CA IDMS REST API 1.0 is now Generally Available. Providing a familiar and flexible way to interact with the mainframe,
the CA IDMS REST API enables scripting, automation, and user interfaces. New DBAs and developers can now ease into
mainframe roles with the benefit of a choice of familiar tools and environments to work with.
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