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East Wind blows for CA Gen

Today is the 6th Japanese CA Gen user group day in Tokyo. The agenda is packed, containing sessions about CA Gen and the cloud,and how CA Gen interoperates with Application Performance Management.

It promises to be yet another great event.

On another note, there’s a good comparison of CA Gen with other development tools here (you’ll need to use Google’s translate service to read it if you aren’t fluent in Japanese). Unsurprisingly, CA Gen comes out on top in a number of categories – but not start-up costs, however.

Now if we could fix that ……..  :-)

New CA Gen product certifications

CA Gen 8.0 has been certified on Cobol 4.2, Dreamweaver 5 and CICS TS 4.1 and VMWare Player 3.0.1 build-227600.
This marks a step change in the Gen product certification stakes since VMWare certififucation takes us closer to virtualised CA Gen deployments.
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The CA GEN “CAGE” – what’s in there ?

Wikipedia defines an Eco-System as “…a biological environment consisting of all the organisms living in a particular area…”.

It also defines “Eco-System Services” as “….fundamental life-support services upon which human civilization depends…”.

This is true of the CA Gen Ecosystem (“CAGE”)  since “the CAGE” is fundamental to how CA Gen survives – take a look at the companies in “the CAGE” environment and what they do. Its easy sometimes to overlook these organisations (many of them are linked from the gentalk.biz front page – they provide valuable services for users of CA Gen.

When considering a particular project, or requirement for a function, its sometimes easy to dismiss something as not being available, or hard to do – look inside the CAGE – someone, somewhere must have done it – CrossfIEr is a great example of this – as is ModelCVS.

There are companies out there who have crossed pretty much every bridge in the Gen world and are ready to help you out – look in that CAGE and find them.

IET extends CA Gen’s functionality AGAIN !

IET have done it again – they’ve released CrossfIEr – an extension to their product range that allows automation of the code generation for all supported CA Gen platforms from a Host Encyclopedia.

This is a giant leap forward for Host Encyclopedia users who have previously not been able to control the generation of (say) .NET code from the mainframe encyclopedia. CrossfIEr is another example of IET listening to its’ customers needs and filling the gaps – I don’t think that there is a single IET product that is a “product for a product’s sake” – ALL of their products, tools and utilities are extremely useful and fill the needs of the users exactly !

Get the lowdown on the product here with the announcement or here for more detailed description

A different way of getting involved – listen and watch

Click here for the video !!!