Indeed they do, CA's site, product support mostly has changed so many times over the years, and if you are not a normal user then it's frustrating at the very least to figure out what format and how to download fixes. many many moons ago I was assigned a PIN #, 005, and the site was very useful and easy to download fixes.
most enterprise security offices do not allow mainframe access to vendor sites, I had to fight to get access from our TEST LPAR to IBM to receive orders and then I'm restricted to using HTTP PROXY which requires me to use my company ID and password to access the proxy, if CA would support that method I think most companies would not have a problem with CA to mainframe access. I provided a link I was given previously, I hope this helps resolve some issues for the OP. Carmen Vitullo ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Hoelscher" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2018 8:10:53 AM Subject: Re: Fixes from CA CA now offers internet smp/e retrievals (receive order). This delivers fixes and holddata directly (and properly formatted) to the mainframe Before the above method was available in our shop, I used IND$FILE to port fixes from desktop top MF - specifying recfm(f) lrecl(80) Never had a formatting issue Chris Hoelscher Technology Architect, Database Infrastructure Services Technology Solution Services Humana Inc. 123 East Main Street Louisville, KY 40202 Humana.com (502) 476-2538 or 407-7266 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Carmen Vitullo Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2018 8:59 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] Fixes from CA I have one product I support from CA and i feel your frustration , after missing around abit I contacted CA to get the scoop, I forget what I finally did to get my PTF's downloaded but it was not easy one thing a team member proved to me was this link this may help some https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocops.ca.com%2Fmainframe-common-maintenance%2Fen%2Fconfigure-ca-smp-e-internet-service-retrieval&data=02%7C01%7Cchoelscher%40humana.com%7C9ccaf135faea449c4f1808d664f0f8a8%7C56c62bbe85984b859e511ca753fa50f2%7C1%7C0%7C636807383476768607&sdata=nHiNBs9sAhawZB9Qm2qMSPlCrrmA0DNWVv9UyGV0O7A%3D&reserved=0 Carmen Vitullo ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vignesh Sankaranarayanan" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2018 7:27:38 AM Subject: Fixes from CA Hi, On getting a bunch of Solutions downloaded from the CA site for a product, the subsequent uploads to mainframe fail because the .txt files go on for more than 80 cols. 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