Checking versions of socftware on Z OS

Heinrichvg · Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2009 5:52 pm

I need help please. I am new to this kind of stuff and help would be appreciated.

I need to check the version of the following software:

Advantage CA-Datacom Database Option for CICS Services
Advantage CA-Datacom/AD (Common Services)
Advantage CA-Datacom/DB Database
Advantage CA-Easytrieve Plus
Advantage CA-Ideal DB2 Option
Advantage CA-Ideal for CA-Datacom
AllFusion CA-InterTest for CICS
Inter Product Component
CICS Service Facility
AllFusion Endevor Change Manager
AllFusion Endevor Change Manager Interface for External Security
AllFusion Endevor Change Manager Option for DB2 for z/OS and OS/390
AllFusion Endevor Change Manager Quick Edit Option
CA-1 Tape Management
CA-vTape Virtual Tape System
CA - Roscoe Interactive Environment
CA Common Services (CCI)
eTrust CA-Top Secret
Unicenter CA-11 Restart and Tracking
Unicenter CA-7 Job Management
CA-SYSVIEW Performance Management
CA-SYSVIEW Realtime Performance Management for CICS
Twenty%

Is there certain commands to check this with or how do I go-ahead doing this.

Thanks

Robert Sample · Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2009 6:03 pm

During the IPL process, there is a started task called CAIRIM (CAI Resource Initialization Manager) that runs to verify licensed products from CA. This may also be called CAS (Common Address Space, I believe was the name) if your CA product usage goes back far enough. If you find the PARMLIB that this job uses, it will list most (if not all) of your CA products along with the version being executed. You may need to consult with CA about the meaning of (for example) VERSION(L730) for a product, but I believe the product guide for CA lists these version identifiers as well.

Alternately, you can bring up the executing JCL for each product and check the version number listed in the job output -- pretty much all CA products have some form of version identifier displayed during start up.