DITTON PARK, England, August 12 /PRNewswire/ --     CA (NASDAQ: CA) today continued to deliver on its Mainframe 2.0
initiative with new releases of its application testing tools that modernize
mainframe ownership and ease the transfer of management tasks to a new
generation of IT professionals.

In addition to leveraging CA's Mainframe 2.0 technology, CA's testing and
debugging tools, CA InterTest(TM) Batch and CA InterTest(TM) for
CICS, now feature a graphical user interface (GUI) based on the Eclipse(TM) 
Platform-making it easier for experienced and novice mainframe staff alike to 
execute core testing, and debugging tasks. These tasks historically have been
time-consuming phases of the mainframe application development and deployment
lifecycle.

CA also released a new version of CA SymDump(R) for CICS , its advanced 
Abend analysis solution, that uses the new Mainframe 2.0 implementation 
functions.

"Conventional approaches to testing and debugging mainframe applications
are too slow and inefficient to meet the 'needed it yesterday' demands of the
business," said Aline Gerew, senior vice president of software engineering in
CA's Mainframe Business Unit. "CA has directly addressed this issue by
delivering a new set of solutions that empower our customers to better meet
these demands despite their current resource constraints."

Today's IT organizations have to satisfy more demanding time-to-market
expectations, rigorously maintain quality and performance standards, and
comply with increasingly stringent regulatory mandates-despite limitations in
their mainframe staff resources. CA's newly enhanced application testing
tools help customers cope with these pressures by streamlining and
simplifying core quality assurance tasks.

"A key challenge for us is optimizing the productivity of our senior
mainframe experts, while creating a working environment that helps our
younger, less experienced development staff become proficient in mainframe
computing," said Steve Ware, systems coordinator, Computing & Networking
Services at the University of Florida. "CA's newly enhanced testing tools are
helping us do exactly that."

Eases Support of SOA Implementations

The new releases of CA InterTest and CA SymDump for CICS leverage such
Mainframe 2.0 components as CA Mainframe Software Manager, which automates
implementation and shields IT staff from underlying SMP/E complexities, and a
Best Practices Guide that shortens the learning curve for IT staff by
providing comprehensive information about product installation,
configuration, and deployment.

The new CA InterTest GUI helps developers efficiently re-use and
re-purpose existing mainframe application code in order to further improve
productivity and support service oriented architecture (SOA) implementations.
By plugging CA InterTest tools into their larger Eclipse-based integrated
development environments, customers can more easily and seamlessly debug
end-to-end composite applications that include mainframe, distributed, web,
and/or mobile components.

"Enterprise IT organizations are increasingly using mainframe-based
applications as database or transactional back-ends for services that are
ultimately delivered to the end-user's browser or browser equivalent," said
Melinda Ballou, program director, Application Life-Cycle Management, IDC.
"Incorporating Eclipse interface standards into mainframe test solutions
supports this trend by making it easier for development and testing teams to
unify mainframe debugging tasks into their development platforms."

CA InterTest for CICS, CA InterTest Batch, and CA SymDump for CICS are
key components of CA's comprehensive suite of mainframe application quality
and testing tools that also includes solutions for file and IMS data
management, batch and system fault management, application performance
management and quality assurance testing.

About CA

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company, helps customers optimize IT for better business results. CA's
Enterprise IT Management solutions for mainframe and distributed computing
enable Lean IT-empowering organizations to more effectively govern, manage
and secure their IT operations. For more information, visit
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