TechValidate Research on CA Mainframe

Introduction

This case study of a medium enterprise computer services company is based on a July 2013 survey of CA Technologies Testing Solutions customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

Challenges

• Purchased CA Testing Tools for the following reasons:
  • Improve productivity of application developers
  • Reduce length of time it takes to update a mainframe application and move it to production

Use Case

• Using the following CA Testing Tools:
  • CA SymDump® System
  • CA File Master™ Plus
• Applying CA Testing Tools in the following ways:
  • To debug / step through Batch programs
  • To prevent abends or other failures in test or production

Results

• Replaced the following vendor with CA Testing Tools:
  • IBM
• Their application developers are very satisfied with the ease of use of the CA Testing Tools.
• Agrees that CA Testing Tools help to a significant degree with delivering well-tested mainframe applications that perform as expected in production.
• Saw improvement in the following areas since implementing CA Testing Tools:
  • Reduced costs: > 100%
  • Improved productivity: > 100%
  • Achieved a return on investment: > 100%
• Rated the following CA Testing Tools capabilities in terms of how valuable they are to their organization:
  • Ease of use: extremely valuable
  • Depth of functionality: extremely valuable
  • Integration among the tools: very valuable
  • Integration with change mgmt: very valuable
  • Lower cost of ownership: extremely valuable

Introduction

This case study of a large enterprise computer services company is based on a May 2013 survey of CA Technologies Testing Solutions customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

Challenges

• Purchased CA Testing Tools for the following reasons:
  • Reduce high software costs
  • Improve integration of testing tools

Use Case

• Using the following CA Testing Tools:
  • CA InterTest™ for CICS
  • CA InterTest™ Batch
  • CA SymDump® for CICS
  • CA SymDump® Batch
  • CA File Master™ Plus
  • CA RC/Update® for DB2 for z/OS
  • CA Mainframe Application Tuner
• Applying CA Testing Tools in the following ways:
  • To debug / step through CICS programs
  • To debug / step through Batch programs
  • To browse or update VSAM files
  • To browse or update DB2 databases

Results

• Replaced the following vendors with CA Testing Tools:
  • Compuware
• Their application developers are satisfied with the ease of use of the CA Testing Tools.
• Agrees that CA Testing Tools help to a significant degree with delivering well-tested mainframe applications that perform as expected in production.
• Saw improvement in the following areas since implementing CA Testing Tools:
  • Reduced costs: > 100%
  • Improved productivity: 60%-80%
  • Achieved a return on investment: > 100%
• Rated the following CA Testing Tools capabilities in terms of how valuable they are to their organization:
  • Ease of use: very valuable
  • Depth of functionality: very valuable
  • Integration among the tools: valuable
  • Lower cost of ownership: valuable