With the cost of storage hardware at an all-time low, installed capacity has reached record levels and continues to grow. At the same time, there is an increased complexity in the types of devices available and their deployment options. Simply deploying high-speed RAID devices does not guarantee performance or availability. Without management, both the storage resources and the data that resides on these devices are vulnerable, while the number of storage professionals is flat or declining. With BMC MAINVIEW SRM, storage administrators have the ability to reduce storage costs by managing performance and space consumption for various storage resources and processes, including a variety of RAID devices, DFSMS and DFSMShsm subsystems, and Tivoli Storage Manager processes. BMC MAINVIEW SRM solutions include: BMC® MAINVIEW SRM Allocation provides solutions for assigning DFSMS constructs and testing ACS routines in a production environment, intercepting abend conditions, and potentially reducing the DFSMS project timetable and the coding requirements. Includes the functionality of BMC MAINVIEW SRM EasySMS, BMC MAINVIEW SRM StopX37/ll and BMC MAINVIEW SRM EasyPOOL. BMC® MAINVIEW SRM Automation offers a central management facility for z/OS and OS/390 storage that provides the ability to monitor storage resources and receive alerts regarding any potential problem across multiple MVS images and LPARs. Includes the functionality of BMC MAINVIEW SRM Enterprise Storage Automation and BMC MAINVIEW AutoOPERATOR™ for OS/390. BMC® MAINVIEW SRM Reporting provides powerful solutions for real-time and historical monitoring, budgeting, and control of DASD space utilization. Includes the functionality of BMC MAINVIEW SRM StorageGUARD, BMC MAINVIEW SRM EasyHSM, and BMC MAINVIEW SRM SG-Control. BMC® MAINVIEW SRM StopX37/II provides enhancements to z/OS and OS/390 space management to reduce the incidence of space-related processing problems and efficiently maintain continuous availability. By proactively preventing or recovering abends, BMC MAINVIEW SRM StopX37/II allows jobs to complete successfully the first time. Reduce total cost of ownership Identify and eliminate wasted disk space - Historical reporting and forecasting, dynamic ABEND prevention and recovery. Manage performance - Increase utilization of existing resources and defer or better plan for new hardware acquisitions so that you avoid emergency requisitions. Leverage existing MAINVIEW implementation - Seamless integration with existing MAINVIEW implementation saving staffing and operations costs. Centralize storage management Monitor, manage, and receive alerts for your entire storage environment - Manage a wide range of storage entities, including DFSMS, DFSMShsm, RAID devices and other OS/390 resources. Define automation solutions for a variety of storage events from one central console. Support for Sysplex environment - Send exception messages and initiate automation to give user complete control of the storage enterprise. Dynamic and flexible control for efficient storage use - Allows important applications that run the business to be assured of space while those that are optional are more restricted. Restrictions can be dynamically lifted when conditions change. Assure application performance and availability Develop an application-centric view - Associate specific applications with the physical and logical storage assets that support them in order to monitor, gather statistics, and tune the storage infrastructure to ensure application performance. Provide accurate real-time information - Report on storage activities as they occur for better storage subsystem performance. Predefined reports and forecasting capabilities - Gathers historical information on pools, volumes, data sets and VTOCs displaying results online. Batch reports can be customized so you are given the information quickly and accurately.