Output Management Solutions from CA Technologies: More Than Just Printing

Output Management Solutions from CA
Technologies: More Than Just Printing
Bernd Wiktor
Mainframe
ITERGO Informationstechnologie GmbH
Document Service
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Abstract
Bernd Wiktor
ITERGO
Informationstechnologie GmbH
In modern IT business, output is much more than just
printing on paper.
Output management solutions from CA technologies has
an important role in the document management function
on the mainframe.
This presentation shows how document processing has
changed over time and how ITERGO now uses CA
Spool™ and its transformers to convert documents from
Advanced Function Presentaion (AFP) data into other
data streams to fulfill the needs of a modern
decentralized IT business.
A live look into this process completes the presentation.
Software Specialist
Document Service

Agenda
ERGO INSURANCE GROUP COMPANY PROFILE 2015 & ITERGO GMBH
MOTIVATION: OUTPUTMANAGEMENT IN A CHANGE
SOLUTIONS: AFP AND PDF
COMING SOON

ERGO Insurance Group Company Profile 2015 & ITERGO GmbH

ERGO Group Profile 2015 – www.ergo.com
At a glance
Our broad line-up and clear brand positioning make us
one of the major insurance groups in Germany and Europe
All-round range of
advice – insurance and provision – services
Our promise
to customers
„To insure is
to understand“
sets us apart
from our competitors
€ 18.2 billion premium income
€ 128 billion investments
About 43,000 employees
and sales agents
Key figures as at 31 Dec 2014
Part of Munich Re
Operating in over 30 countries
focusing on Europe and Asia
.
Health,
Legal Protection, Travel
Life,
Property-Casualty

Our strengths
We support customers with a large variety of services –
wherever they are needed
MediationLegal adviceHealth programmes
Claims expertsOnline services Assistance services
Travel emergency
hotline
Mobile services

Our strengths
Our home market is Germany
and we are operating in more than 30 countries
Köln
Düsseldorf
Hamburg
Berlin
Leipzig
 All segments
 77 % share in premiums
 Over 17,000 in-house staff
 Over 9,000 independent
full-time sales agents
TOP 5 market position in life or property-casualty Market presence
 Life and property-casualty, legal protection, travel
 23 % share in premiums
 Over 10,000 in-house staff
 About 6,000 independent full-time sales agents
Germany Europe Asia

Our strengths
We belong to Munich Re
Munich Re stands for exceptional solution-based expertise, consistent
risk management, financial stability and close customer proximity
 One of the world‘s leading risk carriers
 Far over one century of international experience
 Listed on the share indices DAX 30 / EURO STOXX 50
Munich Re
Munich HealthReinsurance Primary insurance
 Manager of Group investments of 219 billion europs
 Funds for private and institutional investors
Asset Management

ITERGO GmbH
We are IT-Service-Provider of the ERGO
Munich
Köln
Hamburg
Duesseldorf
 ERGO data center
 25,800 MIPS capacity
 4,000 server instances
 1.000 TB direct access storage device
 15 Mio. online-transaction / day
 ERGO print center
 240 Mio. printed pages / year
 45 Mio. postal items / year
• network and user-devices
 28.000 workstation
 11,200 printers
 67,000 network-ports for voice and data
 19,000 fixed and 3,000 mobile phones
 1,000 blackberries
 ERGO Direktions-Netzwerk mit Gigabit Bandbreite
 Projects
 project performance 150.000 days / year
 in 10 countries
July 2013
 about 1,350 employees

Motivation: Outputmanagement in a change

Outbound
AFP
Central
Print Center
- PSF -
Direct Print
Document Processing:
Once Upon A Time…

Outbound
AFP
Central
Print Center
- PSF -
Direct Print
Advanced, a little more
Fax
- PSF/2 -
Decentralized
Print
Local
Print Center
- PSF -
Web Print
(„Cloud“)
Browser
- PDF -
Mail Server
- PDF -
EMail
LAN
Workgroup
- PCL-

Outbound
AFP
Central
Print Center
- PSF -
Direct Print
Today
Decentralized
Print
Local
Print Center
- PSF -
Fax
- PCL -
LAN
Workgroup
- PCL-
Web Print
(„Cloud“)
Browser
- PDF -
Mail Server
- PDF -
EMail
Archiv
- AFP -
(PTOCA / IOCA)
Inbound
Any

Complexity
Document
Intranet
Internet
Process Media Result

Solutions: AFP And PDF

Complexity
Intranet
Internet
AFP
AFP
PCL
PCL
PDF
PDF
CA SpoolTM
AFP-Transform
CA SpoolTM
AFP-Transform
CA SpoolTM
AFP-Transform
CA SpoolTM
AFP-Transform
AFP
Document Process Media Result

Reasons for CA SpoolTM
AFP Transforms
- Variability:
Multiple output chanels: Disk, C:D, Email…
Each process uses the ressources it needs
- Scalability
- Java based transforms
Use cost free ZIIP: reduce CPU costs
- Mainframe

Samples
Sample 1: Scalabilty
1 receiving and transforming node:
EMAIL04
8 transfer nodes:
EMAIL04A – EMAIL04H
Sample 2: Variability
1 process, different purpose nodes
- ECLIPDF0 all purpose, central node
- ECLIPDFA – ECLIPDFF: online distribution
- ECLIPDFX – large files
- ECLIPDFU – unsecured PDF files
- KCLIPDF0 – special print environment
- GDDM,WEBDRUCK – Dummy nodes for SUBSYS

An Application: Webdruck
Foreground action:
 User selects an archived document
for viewing
 Document and meta datas are
presented in Webdruck panel
 User views PDF

An Application: Webdruck
Background action
- Image retrieved
Meta data created and stored separate
- EQPLIMGD STC gets control,
sends file with destination $013397 to CA Spool
Meta data key in Programmers name
- ESFUSS redirects to new Desination
ECLIPDFD with remote destination M013397
- CA Spool transformes into PDF
- PDF stored as BLOB in SQL DB via TCPDRIVE LPRE
- Access granted via AD
User or Business Unit

An Application: Batch Email
Email Information inline
 Part of each document
 Individual messages
 Separtes as individuel files in
CA Spool
 Splits message and document
 Documents as PDF-attachments
 Document with Logo

Let‘s Go Live

A2Px–Transform: Some Numbers
Transformed pages 2015 (01-09)
• PCL-Print 8.305.872
• PCL-Fax 1.447.920
• PDF-Webdruck 18.672.953
• PDF-Server 1.332.874
• PDF-Mail 3.931.350

Coming Soon

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Print vs. Digital Deployment

Outbound
AFP
Central
Print Center
- PSF -
Direct Print
Tomorrow
Las Vegas, November 16-20, 2015
Decentralized
Print
Local
Print Center
- PSF -
Fax
- PCL -
LAN
Workgroup
- PCL-
Web Print
(„Cloud“)
Browser
- PDF -
Mail Server
- PDF -
EMail
Archiv
- AFP -
(PTOCA / IOCA)
Inbound
Any
Browser
- HTML5-
PDF.
PDF/A
CA SpoolTM
PDF-Transform
Database

Las Vegas, November 16-20,2015
Q & A

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