CAFC™ – CICS Application File Control

The modern solution to replace CA DADS™ Plus

Looking to modernize your CICS transaction management while optimizing costs and increasing reliability?
Discover CAFC™ — the ideal successor to CA DADS™ Plus, offering much more than just equivalent features.

CICS Application file control

Why choose CAFC™?

A direct replacement for CA DADS™ Plus

  • Familiar features, easy to adopt
  • Simplified migration: we support you throughout the entire process
  • Already trusted by major companies in the financial and insurance sectors

A security-focused mainframe solution

Reduced costs

  • Eliminates most DD statements from JCL jobs
  • Significantly reduces system startup time
  • Less human intervention = fewer resources required

Powerful automation

  • Automatic management of transaction groups and their associated resources
  • Ability to run batch functions without system downtime or operator input
  • Create logical lists of CICS resources using online or batch commands

Greater simplicity and reliability

  • A single command can manage hundreds of files and resources
  • Automates CICS commands for files, transactions, and databases
  • Drastically reduces human errors and operational incidents

CAFC™ – Automate and streamline your CICS resource management

Adopt a proven, cost-effective, and powerful solution.
Trust CAFC™ to secure, automate, and enhance your CICS environment.

CAFC™ fully automates the management of files, transactions, and databases in the CICS environment. Through the use of logical resource lists, operators can execute commands — either online or in batch — that open or close dozens or even hundreds of files in a single instruction. This eliminates the need for most DD statements in JCL, accelerates system startups, and enables batch processing without interruption or manual intervention.

The result: faster, more reliable, and error-free operations.