BMC MainView SRM Reporting

Real-time and historical reporting for mainframe storage

IT problem

IT is  faced with a growing need to reduce IT expenses while maintaining required SLAs. Storage is one of the largest expenditures when you factor in the cooling and power. Reducing IT costs is as simple as optimizing the storage footprint, and maximizing the existing hardware.

BMC solution

BMC MainView SRM Reporting  provides IT professionals ( with a variety of storage skills)  with comprehensive storage management information based on real time-time and interval driven monitoring, along with command capabilities and automated tasks. It is part of a larger integrated set of storage management tools that incorporate proven storage management best practices. It enables optimization of  the  storage infrastructure while minimizing the need to purchase more.

Features and benefits

• Determines increases and decreases to DASD and tape using modeling scenarios of DFSMS Management Class constructs 
• Delivers DASD reduction benefits in conjunction with BMC MainView SRM Allocation and Automation to allocate data sets based on actual used amount  
• Provides real time and historical reporting of DASD Space, Performance and DFHSM activities  
• Provides mirrored device reporting to determine backend activity  
• Offers  two online interfaces- efficient 3270 Windows Interface, and a mainframe Centric-Intelligent Web Browser  
• Delivers flexible application reporting that aligns the storage infrastructure to any business activity

Key differentiators

• Provides policy driven data collection reducing  CPU overhead and  unique reporting granularity
• Integrates  with the MainView infrastructure to provide the same look and feel as all of the MainView monitoring products
• Delivers what is needed to do support and maintenance without  distributed components
• Performs specific storage management activities without any requirement for add-on parts
•  Reduces cost by allocating data sets based on used amount, not requested amount 
• Reduces DFHSM CPU overhead by eliminating activity related to DFSMS and data set errors 

Related Products

• BMC MainView SRM Allocation
• BMC MainView SRM Automation
• BMC MainView SRM StopX37/II