CA Brightside and Zowe LTS

Introducing CA Brightside 3.0

Open source allows you to consume software released under an open-source license, join the community, and contribute your code and ideas to the project. When businesses decide to adopt open-source software beyond individual use, they either hire developers to provide support and bugfixes, or they rely on software vendors to ensure continuous delivery of value with as few interruptions as possible.

In this article, I explain what is new in CA Brightside 3.0 and how Zowe Long Term Support (LTS) changes how businesses adopt new, transformative, fast-moving technology.

With release 3.0, if you have an active Brightside subscription, you don’t have to search for plugins for your favorite tools or wonder about compatibility with the core version of Zowe. Also, if your organization restricts access to public software housing sites, you don’t need to whitelist the zowe.org domain to enable your developers to access Zowe.

Everything you need to deploy Zowe automation infrastructure in your organization reliably is available for download from a single, secure location.

Brightside local installer for Zowe CLI includes the following plugins:

The z/OS installer packages for SMP/E included in CA Brightside 3.0 are identical to the LTS packages provided by the Zowe project.

Here is a screenshot of the installer packages available for download in the Broadcom Support Portal:

All z/OS components are in one package called “CA Brightside 3.0 LTS 1.9.0 SMPE — zOS Components” and all distributed components, and all the plugins are in the package: “CA Brightside 3.0 Zowe v1 LTS local package”.

Note that if you’ve already started by downloading and installing the LTS packages from zowe.org, you can also choose to install the CA Brightside extensions on top of that. The choice is yours!

Zowe uses a modular architecture to enable extensions of core capabilities without changing any of its binaries. It also allows the development of commercial solutions on top of the core Zowe infrastructure.

In any given z/OS environment, there may be several commercial products from different vendors that depend on the Zowe. For all the solutions built on top of Zowe to co-exist, they need to use the same instance of Zowe. To help with adoption, the Zowe community has released a Long Term Support version with a carefully managed lifecycle and a predictable release schedule. Brightside 3.0 now aligns with Zowe LTS.

Each Zowe release stream goes through three lifecycle phases:

Open source software and commercial software are two sides of the same coin. They both have a purpose and place in the software ecosystem. Innovators benefit from the open-source because they want to go fast, lead the way, and contribute. Businesses benefit from code and components that are adopted by multiple vendors to avoid vendor lockout.

To scale up the adoption of open source in business environments where business risk is carefully managed, one needs a healthy ecosystem of commercial offerings built around open source to reduce the cost of maintenance and support of open source solutions.

Brightside subscription addresses business risk and investment associated with scaled adoption of open source. It is a bridge between modern DevOps practices and the Mainframe. It is also a bridge between the world of open source and commercial solutions built on top of open source.

In this latest release, Brightside subscription embraces Zowe LTS, it makes it easier to acquire and install, and it provides access to powerful innovations and Broadcom product extensions.

To learn more about Zowe and CA Brightside, join us for awebinar on April 2nd:

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