CA White Papers

This Butler Group white paper provides background on how application development has evolved from mainframes to distributed systems and on to the era of Web 2.0 and Services Oriented Architecture. It also describes the different approaches in Model Driven Development, including the role of modeling, the Object Management Group Way, and the CA approach to modelling.

This paper explains how CA Gen, CA’s model driven development tool, fits into the larger picture of application development, and discusses how CA Gen can benefit IT organizations as they move toward adopting SOA and Web services.

This white paper written by Ptak, Noel & Associates discusses CA’s commitment to improving the business value of CA Datacom, a high-performance, multi-user relational database management system based on z/OS and VSE host platforms. CA continues to invest in the product to sustain its performance and availability advantages and help customers leverage CA Datacom’s advantages in innovative software projects.

Business and IT executives should not have to choose between their desire to innovate for future growth and the desire to avoid disrupting current operations. Learn how CA IDMS, a Web-enabled high-performance mainframe relational database management system that exploits the latest hardware and software technologies, can make this combination possible.

This paper discusses how CA’s continuous investments have enhanced and modernized CA IDMS, how enterprises can leverage CA IDMS’ performance and availability advantages, and the innovative reuse of existing CA IDMS environments.