CA has announced it is offering Day One support for IBM’s newly announced z10 Enterprise Class platform throughout its mainframe management product lines, enabling customers to accelerate their z10 Enterprise Class implementations.

CA worked closely with IBM to ensure tight integration of its management solutions portfolio with the z10 Enterprise Class platform. CA actively participated in IBM’s Early Support Programme for the z10 hardware by supporting select mutual customers and installing the z10 in CA’s data centre.

"For more than 30 years, CA has been with IBM step-for-step with the introduction of new mainframe platforms,” said Chris O’Malley, senior vice president and general manager of CA’s Mainframe Business Unit. “We are excited about working closely with our mutual customers to ensure that their transition to the z10 Enterprise Class is a smooth one—and that they fully leverage all of the new capabilities IBM is delivering.”

Customers can further increase the business value of their z10 investments with CA mainframe management solutions that offload processing to IBM zIIP specialty engines, which claim to provide better price/performance in the z10 than in previous hardware. CA products that currently support zIIP engines include CA NetMaster Network Management, CA Tape Encryption and CA Vtape Virtual Tape System. Additional examples of the many CA solutions that will support IBM’s z10 Enterprise Class include CA OPS/MVS and CA SYSVIEW, CA z/VM and Linux server and CA Wily application management solutions, CA’s DB2 and IMS tools, CA ACF2 and CA Top Secret.