Mainframe Productivity

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Capacity Plus for VSAM

Capacity Plus for VSAM is a comprehensive mainframe software tool that provides optimum use of storage by compressing VSAM data. In a z/OS environment, DASD space can be saved by automatically compressing data when files are loaded or updated.

Catalog Solution

Catalog Solution manages, maintains, and recovers your catalog environment with speed, reliability, and flexibility. Catalog Solution provides simple, proactive diagnostic tools for comprehensive catalog management for z/OS. Maintenance and management facilities provide unique DUMP and REBUILD utilities to help you repair potential logical and structural defects

Performance Essential

Performance Essential is an integrated server tuning and data management facility for IBM System z environments that dramatically improves overall system performance. With Performance Essential, you can reduce I/O, CPU time, and elapsed time, and get unmatched virtual storage access method (VSAM) and non-VSAM application throughput.

Rocket FYI/CICS

Rocket FYI/CICS is a research tool for learning about CICS and activity within CICS. It displays user friendly screens that provide general information on many CICS topics. The user can then drill down to extract more specific information on a topic. FYI/CICS is available to users of CICS Transaction Server V2.2 and above.

TeraSAM

TeraSAM for z/OS transparently segments large VSAM files and allows segmented data sets to be accessed via alternate indexes. TeraSAM optimizes your storage resource management by placing only high-activity segments on high-performance storage. With TeraSAM, you can increase your VSAM performance by allocating free space, buffers, and cache devices to parts of the file with high activity levels.

VSAM Assist

VSAM Assist simplifies and improves Virtual Storage Access Method (VSAM) data management and maintenance processes with just two simple commands: DUMP and RESTORE. With VSAM Assist backup software you can manage your entire VSAM environment without the need for extensive technical experience.

VSAM Quick Index

VSAM Quick Index is a high-performance, low-overhead tool that builds alternate indexes for VSAM KSDS and ESDS base clusters faster than IDCAMS BLDINDEX. This reduces batch processing time and CPU utilization while improving data availability.

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Mainstar MXI G2 for z/OS

Mainstar MXI G2 for z/OS is tool for MVS system programmers, storage administrators, and capacity planners to observe current mainframe configuration and activity.  It can be extended through plug-ins to add focus and depth to specific areas such as CICS, data set and volume storage, TCP/IP, and DB2.  It supports additional off-mainframe analytics and presentation. MXI provides systems programmers ready access to critical information about the active z/OS system. MXI offers a fast and easy-to-use ISPF interface along with a REXX API and batch reporting capability.

Mainstar Provisioning Expert for Linux on z/VM

Mainstar Provisioning Expert for Linux on z/VM is an enterprise tool that enables you to create and manage large numbers of Linux systems running as guests under z/VM. This tool enables you to consolidate servers by replacing individual systems with virtual machines, which results in a significant administrative cost savings for backups, hardware maintenance, and support personnel. Provisioning Expert enables you to configure the virtual hardware and software for each Linux system it manages. You can reuse configuration data to easily make many Linux systems with identical or similar configurations. The creation of Linux systems is fully automated, which allows fast, consistent, reliable and unattended operations. Provisioning Expert is integrated with your existing z/VM directory management tool and uses it to manage z/VM resources such as guest OS definitions and DASD. Other resources, such as network address spaces, are managed by Provisioning Expert itself.