PRODUCT SHEET
CA RC/Update for DB2 for z/OS
CA RC/Update provides a development environment for the application developer, an editor and data copy feature for the end user and sophisticated object management facilities for the DBA.
In addition, it provides DB2 object creation and alteration capabilities, DB2 data-related edit, data compare and data copy functions—and SQL testing and execution.
CA RC/Update automates many of the labor-intensive tasks typically associated with altering
DB2 objects and data. With CA RC/Update, you can create and maintain DB2 objects and test embedded SQL in programs. What’s more, the product also provides an easy-to-use, intuitive process for inserting, deleting and modifying data in referential structures. These advanced features simplify administration tasks, reduce database downtime and increase productivity.

CA RC/Update for DB2 for z/OS
CA RC/Update has adopted key Mainframe 2.0 features that are designed to simplify your use of
CA RC/Update and enable your staff to install, deploy and maintain it more effectively and quickly.
 CA Mainframe Software Manager™: CA Mainframe Software Manager (CA MSM) automates
CA RC/Update installation, deployment and maintenance and removes SMP/E complexities.
— The Software Acquisition Service enables you to more easily move product installation packages and maintenance from CA Support Online directly to your mainframe environment and prepare them for installation.
— The Software Installation Service standardizes CA RC/Update installation, which includes a new, streamlined Electronic Software Delivery (ESD) method that allows
CA RC/Update to be installed using standard utilities. This service also provides standardized SMP/E product installation and maintenance via APARs and PTFs, and simplifies SMP/E processing through an intuitive graphical user interface and an intelligent Installation Wizard.
— The Software Deployment Service enables you to more easily deploy CA RC/Update in your mainframe environment.
— CA MSM Consolidated Software Inventory (CSI) updates and infrastructure improvements add flexibility to CA MSM processing of CSIs and enable CA MSM to more effectively utilize CPU and system memory.
 Installation Verification Program (IVP) and Execution Verification Program (EVP):
As part of qualification for inclusion in the set of mainframe products from CA Technologies released every May, CA RC/Update has passed stringent tests performed through the IVP and EVP to find and resolve interoperability problems prior to release. These programs are an extension of our ongoing interoperability certification initiative launched in May 2009.
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Best Practices guide: This guide provides information on CA RC/Update installation, initial configuration and deployment to shorten the learning curve for staff who are responsible for the installation and management of this product.
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 DB2 10 support: CA RC/Update runs in DB2 10 NFM (New Function Mode) with a converted catalog and in DB2 10 CM (Conversion Mode).
 DB2 10 toleration for TIMESTAMP (precision) and TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE data types: In DB2 10, the product provides toleration for TIMESTAMP(precision) and
TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE data types.
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NOT ENFORCED RI constraints support: The NOT ENFORCED clause for foreign key constraints is now supported. The NOT ENFORCED clause lets you define referential integrity
(RI) between tables that are program-enforced, rather than being enforced by the DB2 database manager.
 New Sort Option in DB2 during edit and browse processing: When using CA RC/Update to edit or browse a table, you can specify that the sort process occurs before limit processing occurs.
 Universal Table Space (UTS) support: DB2 9 Universal Table Space (UTS) support is now provided for explicitly defined table spaces.
 Stored procedures support: CA RC/Update now supports stored procedures, with certain limitations.
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DB2 9 new data types support: DB2 9 BIGINT, BINARY, DECFLOAT, and VARBINARY data types are now supported.
 DB2 9 RENAME support: DB2 9 RENAME INDEX and RENAME COLUMN support is now provided.
 DB2 9 compressed index support: DB2 9 compressed indexes are now supported. You can compress index data when creating, altering, or templating an index.
 DB2 9 new index page size support: DB2 9 index page sizes greater than 4 KB (8 KB, 16 KB, and 32 KB) are now supported. This increases the number of index entries per page, and reduces the number of pages needed and page splits for large insert processes.
 DB2 9 index on expression toleration support: Limited index on expression (IOE) support is now provided. This support provides simple alterations to an existing IOE and templating an existing IOE.
 DB2 9 DDL APPEND parameter support: The DB2 9 DDL APPEND parameter for tables is now supported. You can append additional rows to the end of a table, overriding the attempt by DB2 to cluster the data. This feature helps you control the way data rows are stored in a table during INSERT and LOAD operations. You can control append processing when creating, altering, or templating a table.
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 Table space log data changes support: The LOGGED and NOT LOGGED table space attributes are now supported when creating or altering a table space. Control over this logging is available in object definition defaults.
CA RC/Update provides:
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Object management capabilities: With CA RC/Update, DB2 objects are easily created and maintained using online screens, helping you simplify and accelerate the object manipulation process. Screens use familiar, standard ISPF-line commands.
— Simplify object manipulation: CA RC/Update provides the ability to create, alter and drop DB2 objects—without having to remember object names, options and DDL syntax.
When creating objects, you can use an existing object as the template to automatically select current characteristics. During the object modification process, the product allows you to simultaneously view both old and new versions on the screen.
— Extended object alteration: When making a non-DB2 supported alteration to an object, such as adding a column into the middle of a table or reducing the size of a column, the object must be dropped and recreated with a new definition. Its dependent objects and authorization chains must then be recreated and its data must be reloaded, making this an error-prone, difficult process. CA RC/Update automatically performs the necessary steps to make the desired changes and recreates the object with its data and dependents in place, helping you significantly reduce the time the DB2 objects are unavailable.
— Trigger support: This feature enables you to create, alter, template, drop and modify the user authorizations associated with DB2 trigger objects.
— Drop impact analysis: Before dropping any objects, CA RC/Update enables you to preview the list of dependent objects and related aliases that will be impacted by the drop operation. This feature helps you avoid the accidental dropping of required objects.
— Object space calculator: CA RC/Update includes a space calculator that helps calculate the space required to create table spaces and index spaces. This feature increases the accuracy of space calculations and reduces the failures that occur as a result of out-ofspace conditions.
— Help provide for recoverability: CA RC/Update provides recoverability from object alterations and drops, allowing you to revert an object to its original state if it is purposely or accidentally altered or dropped. This feature can also help you restore objects to their original state during application testing.
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 Data management capabilities: CA RC/Update provides advanced data management capabilities that enable you to more easily leverage the data in your DB2 tables in both test and production environments, increasing productivity and reducing data manipulation errors.
— Table editor: CA RC/Update includes a data editor for viewing and manipulating the data residing in DB2 tables. This feature allows you to display rows either vertically or horizontally, or even display data in hexadecimal format. The data can be displayed based on particular columns, column order and row conditions, and the selection and display format can be saved for repeated use. Standard ISPF editor commands can be executed within CA RC/Update, helping you quickly find and edit the data and perform repetitive changes, wildcard searches and replacements.
— Edit referentially related tables: The RI Editor component adds a full set of referential integrity (RI) editing capabilities, including a table list display that graphically illustrates relationships among a set of related tables. It provides a full multi-window editing capability with independent or synchronized scrolling, along with the ability to add related table data to the display at any time. This feature helps you limit the complexity associated with editing referentially related tables and provides for their consistency.
— Data compare: The data compare facility compares data between two different tables or within the same table at separate points in time. It provides screens for selecting table pairs to be compared, specifying the column order, mapping the columns between the table pairs, generating the unload control cards and executing the compare. In this way, this feature helps you eliminate manual data comparison processes, increasing productivity.
— Copy data between tables: CA RC/Update enables you to copy data between two tables, even if their definitions do not match. You can select the data to be copied and request that the target table be automatically created during the copy process. The product also allows you to map unlike source and target columns, and perform necessary data type conversions. This feature is especially useful in creating testing environments.
 Advanced features: CA RC/Update includes additional features that help you increase productivity when working with both DB2 objects and SQL.
— Visualize the RI structure: The RI Editor component allows you to visualize the relationships within an RI structure by viewing the structure online, in an indented tree format. Complete RI structures can be viewed, including the tables that are referentially related with either system-defined or user-defined RI.
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— Test embedded SQL statements: CA RC/Update provides a facility for testing SQL statements during application development. Traditionally, application developers must pre-compile the program to find any syntax errors, and then execute the program to discover whether the SQL statements work. This is a very time-consuming and costly process. CA RC/Update executes SQL statements contained within a data set, eliminating the need to pre-compile the entire program to syntax check the SQL and view the execution results.
— Audit report: Activity within CA RC/Update is logged, including each DDL statement executed, as well as every edit or browse session. The product allows you to produce reports from the log to review and audit object creation, alteration and deletion. The
DB2 catalog does not record when an object is dropped or altered. The log display facility provides an audit trail of these changes, making the log invaluable in tracking changes to DB2 objects.
 Integration with other products from CA Technologies: CA RC/Update integrates with other Database Management solutions or DB2 for z/OS from CA Technologies, helping you further simplify database administration and improve productivity.
— Integration with CA RC/Migrator™ for DB2 for z/OS (CA RC/Migrator): Alterations requiring more than the simplest changes of schema object definitions are handled by the logic driving the object management capabilities of CA RC/Migrator.
— Integration with CA RC/Query® for DB2 for z/OS (CA RC/Query): When viewing a list of selected objects within CA RC/Update, you can enter CA RC/Query line commands to view reports and obtain more information about the particular object before making a request — such as an ALTER or DROP. CA RC/Query provides more than 140 different types of reports that let you view and analyze virtually any element present in the DB2 system catalog.
— Integration with CA RC/Extract™ for DB2 for z/OS (CA RC/Extract): While defining a related data extract, CA RC/Extract activity moves in context to CA RC/Update to browse the table data, create an external key file to drive extract processing and use the
CA RC/Update’s templating capabilities to define target objects.
— Integration with CA SQL-Ease® for DB2 for z/OS (CA SQL-Ease): CA RC/Update integrates with CA SQL-Ease, which performs a DB2 EXPLAIN of the SQL statement, displays the predicates involved in the SQL, sends the displayed SQL to an ISPF edit session and reformats the SQL into a standard format.
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— CA Value Pack for DB2 for z/OS: The CA Value Pack is automatically included with any licensed CA Database Management Solution for DB2 for z/OS. The RI management functionality included in the CA Value Pack for DB2 for z/OS provides an interactive facility that simplifies the process of viewing, creating, modifying and deleting both system-defined and application-managed RI relationships. This functionality can convert an application-managed RI to system-defined RI and vice versa. It also reports, and optionally corrects, any obsolete table and key column references in applicationmanaged RI. The RI Editor component uses the RI management functionality when working with related tables.
CA Services provides a portfolio of mainframe services delivered through CA Technologies internal staff and a network of established partners chosen to help you achieve a successful deployment and get the desired business results as quickly as possible. Our standard service offerings are designed to speed deployment and accelerate the learning curve for your staff.
CA Technologies field-proven mainframe best practices and training help you lower risk, improve use/adoption and ultimately align the product configuration to your business requirements.
CA RC/Update automates many of the labor-intensive tasks associated with performing changes to DB2 objects and data. The product provides a development environment for the application developer, an editor and data copy feature for the end user and sophisticated object management facilities for the DBA.
With CA RC/Update, you can create and maintain DB2 objects—with full ALTER support—edit, browse, compare and copy DB2 data and test embedded SQL in programs. What’s more, the product also provides an easy-to-use, intuitive process for inserting, deleting and modifying data in referential structures. The advanced features the product delivers help you simplify administration tasks, reduce database downtime and increase productivity.
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CA Technologies has 30 years of recognized expertise in robust, reliable, scalable, and secure enterprise-class IT management software. CA RC/Update for DB2 for z/OS is a key component of the Mainframe 2.0 initiative from CA Technologies to change the way the mainframe is managed forever by helping you maximize the value of our mainframe products and by providing a simplified experience and innovative solutions that deliver value quickly and flexibly.
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