In industries such as financial services, insurance, healthcare and the public sector, thousands of organizations are running mission-critical systems built on CA Gen — now a fourth-generation application development environment. But active adoption of the tool peaked in the 1990s, and today organizations using CA Gen face major challenges. These include high licensing costs, a skills/talent shortage and architectural constraints. And although Broadcom, which acquired CA Gen in 2018, has not announced an end-of-life date, investment in new capabilities is negligible, the product roadmap is minimal, and support quality has declined.

For many organizations, it’s no longer a question of whether to modernize applications built on CA Gen, but how to do it without incurring considerable costs or business disruption.

Unfortunately, most organizations that have attempted CA Gen modernization without an industrialized methodology have failed, because business logic is trapped in generated code, and the risks of manual rewrites are compounded by the size, complexity and business criticality of these applications — meaning there’s zero tolerance for downtime or functional regression.

For various reasons, GenAI on its own is unsuitable as a CA Gen modernization engine. But there is a way to meet the challenge of modernization. DXC Technology has developed a method that delivers functional equivalence, eliminates vendor dependency and enables cloud-ready architectures.

To learn more, complete the form to read the white paper from DXC on how to escape the CA Gen trap.