Compuware Announces 'Day One' Support for IBM CICS Transaction Server for z/OS V5.1

Compuware Corporation(Nasdaq: CPWR), the technology performance company, is pleased to provide "dayone" support for IBM's CICS Transaction Server for z/OS (CICS TS) V5.1, acrucial component of modern, multi-tiered and customer-facing applications.Compuware's CICS-supporting solutions--Abend-AID, Xpediter and Strobe--allwork seamlessly with the new release of CICS TS to provide essential supportfor building, debugging and improving the performance of CICS workloads."We know that many of our customers rely on CICS TS to run theirbusiness-critical applications," said Kris Manery, Senior Vice President andGeneral Manager, Mainframe Solutions Business Unit, Compuware. "It'simperative they make a smooth migration to the new server, which is why we'veinvested time and resources to ensure that Abend-AID, Xpediter and Strobe arefully compatible with the new release. Our customers can relax knowing oursolutions will be fully operational once the transition to the new softwarehas occurred."As CICS TS V5.1 customers move toward a service delivery platform for cloudcomputing, they can utilize Compuware's solutions to leverage CICS TS V5.1every step of the way. Beginning with Compuware's day one support, IT staffwill be able to develop, test, tune and deploy CICS TS applications morequickly and with greater ease. Over time, customers can enjoy significantoperational efficiencies, reduced costs and increased service agility throughgreater capacity and increased availability enhancements as well as moremodern interfaces. As customers improve application performance and reduceresource usage, Compuware's tools can further assist them as they takeadvantage of better platform management a