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Mainframe Management

Even though vital business applications run on your mainframe systems and you have to provide the fastest and highest levels of service possible, you must also deal with constant budgetary pressure. So you must select mainframe management products that are highly effective, but also deliver a rapid return on investment (ROI). BMC can help you achieve a rapid ROI and improved service levels through an integrated mainframe management solution that includes intelligent automation. We can help you: Simplify daily operations through automation Our mainframe products provide higher level interfaces to utility function, create job steps and handle tricky syntax for you. This reduces errors, aids in the support of compliance initiatives, and frees you from repetitive mundane tasks. Identify and fix problems quicker Our integrated products combined with a transactional view of the mainframe help you find the problem quicker. The same tools allow you to diagnose and fix the problem. Optimize skills and hardware 3270 and Web-based interfaces meet the needs of experienced and new users. Efficient use of system resources reduces the need for hardware upgrades. Exploit Business Service Management (BSM) Critical mainframe applications and supporting z/OS subsystems can be directly tied to the BSM strategy, allowing you to prioritize actions based on business requirements.

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Mainframe products by category: Automation BMC MAINVIEW AutoOPERATOR for z/OS makes system management an automated operation across multiple environments, enables an efficient and quick return on investment, ensures high availability of required applications, and enables a swift transfer to problem analysis and correction. BMC CONTROL-O provides console management that automatically detects and responds to system events, provides a straightforward, templated rule definition mechanism, and offers an easy implementation method that saves time, prevents errors, and reduces learning curves. Business Service Management Integration BMC Batch Impact Manager helps you to ensure on-time completion of your critical business processes by proactively identifying potential missed SLAs in business service processes. BMC Impact Integration for z/OS provides a bidirectional integration of the monitoring and management environment on the IBM Mainframe with BMC Service Impact Manager and BMC Event Manager, which align IT operations to business operations. BMC MAINVIEW AutoOPERATOR for z/OS makes system management an automated operation across multiple environments, enables an efficient and quick return on investment, ensures high availability of required applications, and enables a swift transfer to problem analysis and correction. DB2 Performance, Availability, and Recovery Solutions BMC Database Administration for DB2 provides a set of integrated tools to help companies manage the most complex DB2 Universal Database for z/OS and OS/ 390 environments. BMC Recovery Management for DB2 provides automation and advisory-level features, such as online transaction recovery, which gives you greater control over the recovery process, improving data availability and reducing recovery risk without taking your database offline. BMC SmartDBA Database Performance for DB2 introduces "detect and correct" automation driven from a common console, a unique combination that delivers a full, flexible solution that keeps DBAs in the driver™s seat on achieving peak database performance. BMC SmartDBA System Performance for DB2 integrates the functionality of the BMC MAINVIEW for DB2, Pool Advisor for DB2, and Opertune for DB2 into a single offering that monitors and manages DB2 across the z/OS enterprise, and provides the DBXray for DB2 component. BMC SQL Performance for DB2 quickly identifies performance problems and makes expert recommendations to correct SQL statements that fail to meet quality standards, in both development and production applications. IMS Performance, Availability, and Recovery Solutions BMC System Performance for IMS simplifies IMS management; clearly shows details about performance issues, systems, and workloads; and provides a single interface for managing traditional implementations and sophisticated parallel sysplex (IMSplex) data-sharing groups. BMC Recovery Manager for IMS uses group processing to simplify the recovery management process, ensure consistent activity across related databases, and increase the speed of recovery utility processing. Mainframe Monitoring and Management BMC MAINVIEW for CICS TS provides intelligent, dynamic management of CICS systems to meet changing workloads; optimizes CICS transaction as well as monitors and automates many CICS functions; and ensures that your CICS regions are tuned and performing. BMC MAINVIEW for Infrastructure Management provides OS/390 and z/OS performance management across an unlimited number of systems or Parallel Sysplex cluster environments and also allows OS/390 professionals to easily manage and monitor key UNIX applications running under USS. BMC MAINVIEW for Network Management monitors the performance of OS/390 and z/OS business-critical applications relative to how the network is used and is comprised of the MAINVIEW for IP and MAINVIEW for VTAM products and specifically addresses the key areas of availability and tuning. BMC MAINVIEW for Web Enablement provides the management support you need to successfully implement and maintain the technologies that allow web enablement of S/390 applications, and monitors e-business applications for network, web server, and operating system errors. Operations Management (includes CONTROL-M and CONTROL-D) BMC CONTROL-M for z/OS manages and integrates z/OS business processes proactively, and guarantees the vital service levels necessary for the success of your business management. BMC CONTROL-M/Restart eliminates time-consuming manual intervention and potential errors, providing fast, efficient, and accurate restarts, and consolidates information through a single interface, addressing the high-risk, error-prone nature of job restart. BMC CONTROL-M/Tape supports and enhances advanced technologies such as VTS, ATL, and high capacity removable media, and helps you increase user productivity and reduce training time through a focal point of control and extensive media management capabilities. BMC CONTROL-D provides all the tools necessary for automating every aspect of report life cycle management from report creation to breakdown, archival, viewing, distribution and deletion. BMC CONTROL-D simplifies complex output processing, providing automation that reduces costs, improves report presentation and facilitates easier control of report management processes. Performance and Capacity Planning BMC Performance Assurance Suite for Mainframes delivers performance and capacity management solution for zSeries with predictions of performance while reducing time and effort required to get results and offers reviews of yesterday's performance, flagging potential problems for drill-down analysis. Storage Management BMC MAINVIEW SRM Allocation makes it easy to manage a complex storage environment, provides exclusive features for assigning DFSMS constructs and testing ACS routines in a production environment, and intercepts abends, allowing jobs to complete successfully the first time. BMC MAINVIEW SRM Reporting provides comprehensive solutions that monitor, analyze, and automate tasks to safeguard the health of storage subsystems and ensure that critical applications complete successfully. BMC MAINVIEW SRM StopX37/II maintains continuous availability by providing enhancements to OS/390 space management reducing the incidence of space-related processing problems, and intercepts abend conditions, providing services without JCL changes. Transaction Management BMC MAINVIEW Transaction Analyzer uses exclusive technology to correlate the resources used by complex transactions across multiple systems and uses existing data from other MAINVIEW monitoring products to provide a consolidated view of the activities of components. BMC Transaction Management Application Response Time - Service Level Edition enables users to measure performance of business applications by executing transactions and monitoring response time.