If you manage IBM^® Db2^® then you know your main objective is great performance. Of course, real data management means trying to achieve that great performance while balancing availability, safety, security, and cost amid rapidly increasing data volumes and transaction rates. Our application economy brings about a new challenge on top of those already stressing our data centers.

According to BMC’s 2019 Mainframe Survey, 50% of respondents say that the rate of change of applications and database objects is increasing. Ideally, in terms of stability, a data manager wants no changes to be made to a production system. This increase in the rate of application and object changes forces DBAs to make sacrifices businesses can’t afford to make. The same survey found that 70% of respondents had unscheduled outages in the last year. In other words, Db2 teams are scrambling to manage existing systems—and the situation is only getting worse.

To solve these challenges, BMC is excited to announce our latest release for our data management solutions for Db2. These modern, innovative solutions are built to help you improve database performance and availability, meet increasing compliance standards, and manage your costs while easily handling growing data volumes, transactions, and database changes.

What’s New?

Industry leading performance just got faster!

Next Generation Technology Utilities are already known for their industry leading performance, but this release reduces the CPU usage of NGT Unload by as much as 93%! Without ever taking data offline for customer applications, businesses can extract large volumes of data from Db2 to move to other platforms or for downstream business processes at a fraction of current costs.

Improvements to application tuning

As the data management technician demographic continues to change, the built-in intelligence of BMC Advisor functions that offer innovative solutions to data and application tuning become more and more vital to a well-managed system. In this release, these advisor functions see improved performance to more quickly and efficiently address upcoming issues in your system. In addition, our flagship application tuning solution Apptune extends the capabilities of its new Basic Mode, where it can identify detailed application issues while using very few system resources.

Db2 data management in a mobile world

With more people working from home than ever, mobile access to your Db2 system is vital. In this release, BMC Workbench extends its data management capabilities on mobile devices. From SQL tuning to recovery estimation and simulation, data management is now in the palm of your hand.

And there’s more…

These are only a fraction of the updates to the entire suite of BMC Solutions for Db2 for z/OS. It is the only data management solution industry-wide that can enable 100% availability. To learn more, visit our Data Management for Db2 on z/OS web page.

The 2020 SHARE conference is almost here! We are just under a week away from one of the best conferences for mainframe education, networking, and innovation. This year Fort Worth, Texas will be hosting, and you don’t want to miss it! Join BMC and SHARE to learn about mainframe security and hardware, cloud technology in the enterprise, data privacy, API economy, Zowe, and more.

Starting on Monday, February 24th, BMC will be leading several technical sessions showing you how to simplify, optimize, and get the most out of your mainframe. Come visit with our BMC experts in the following sessions:

• Session 26597:  Security Opening – Five Keys to Mainframe Security Processes in a Hybrid IT Environment
• Session 26565:  DevOps and IMS:  New Change Management in an IMS Environment 
• Session 27117:  PSP:  Modernizing Mainframe Security for the Future 
• Session 26849:  Women in IT:  The Technical and Business Vision of Women Creating the Mainframe Industry of Tomorrow 
• Session 26845: Lean Mean Machine – Keeping the Lights on for Agile/DevOps
• Session 26848: Db2 Database DevOps – “The Last Mile” of Database Schema Changes
• Session 26387: Hiperdispatch – SLA Improvements and MSU Reductions
• Session 26124: CICS Storage Management:  Memories from Below-the-Line to Above-the-Bar
• Session 26243:  Innovative Customer Solutions to IMS Challenges
• Session 27108:  LNL:  Automated Mainframe Intelligence for Monitoring, Db2, IMS, Capacity, and Security
• Session 26566:  Working on a Global Team:  Success is Within Your Reach
• Session 26114:  CICS Question Box and Pot Luck
• Session 26863:  The Seven Habits of a Highly Effective Test Environment
• Session 26810:  Diagnosing TLS and AT-TLS Handshake Failures on z/OS

On Thursday, February 27th, BMC is hosting the Lunch and Learn session, “Automated Mainframe Intelligence for Monitoring, Db2, IMS, Capacity, and Security.” Join BMC expert, Steve Solomon, to hear more about two new mainframe solutions to help better manage Db2 and IMS, updates on our new BMC AMI Capacity Management solution, and review how to protect your mainframe with AMI for Security.

BMC is a proud Gold sponsor for SHARE Fort Worth. You can find us at Booth #506. Come chat with BMC mainframe experts about your challenges, questions, and experiences, and learn how BMC can help you run and reinvent your mainframe!

Digital business is driving a new standard for continually new and updated applications that are available anytime – and anywhere – the business demands. By 2023, the application development market will be over $9B! (Application Development Market Research Report- Forecast till 2023, 2019)

To deliver these apps at the speed the market requires, developers have adopted agile development processes that seem to be at odds with the core values of stability, reliability, and availability that the mainframe teams have traditionally been entrusted with providing.

BMC and IBM Systems Media will host an informative webinar on Wednesday, May 15 at 1:00 pm ET/12:00 noon CT designed to help you successfully deliver to a new standard for speed and agility in your mainframe environment. John Barry, Principal Product Manager at BMC Software, will cover how you can deliver Db2 on z/OS applications faster, at higher quality and lower costs with automated mainframe intelligence (AMI). Register now.

During this webinar, you will learn how to:

• Close the velocity gap by integrating your mainframe into your agile processes
• Allow self-service change management for developers without increasing risk
• Enforce best practices for each mainframe test and production system

Explore with BMC how to seamlessly integrate Db2 on z/OS into your agile development process to allow self-service change management to application developers, or to simply enforce best practices for each test and prod system and streamline the database change processes. Why should the agile development revolution leave your mainframe behind?

For more information about BMC’s Automated Mainframe Intelligence solutions, please see our AMI Solutions page.

Application Development Market Research Report- Forecast till 2023, 2019 Retrieved from https://www.marketresearchfuture.com/reports/application-development-market-5400