zSeries Software Tools and Utilities from IBM. Get the most from your infrastructure with leading-edge mainframe software tools

IBM zSeries tools To support your IT objectives

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More than ever, your mainframe software tools must offer real solutions, not challenges. More than ever, you need IBM.

If you’re like most IT managers today, your

job is tougher than ever. You’re managing

multiple systems with a small staff.

Servers have to run 24 hours a day, seven

days a week. You have mission-critical

applications to maintain and keep vital.

Tools must be reasonably priced with

value that far exceeds their expenses.

At IBM, we’re listening to your concerns.

IBM ® zSeries® software and

state-of-the-art tools provide the leading

technology that your mission-critical

applications demand. They can help you

increase productivity with self-configuring

and self-managing technology, as well

as automation of everyday database

and systems management tasks. Their

scalability and integration capabilities

can help reduce your installation and

administration costs while you grow

your business.

An affordable set of modern tools

Several years ago, in response to

customers’ demands for an alternative

to high-priced third-party software tools,

IBM got into the tools business—and

immediately altered the competitive

landscape. Since that time, we’ve grown

and learned. And today, the focus of our

affordable tools portfolio is on breadth

and depth.

In the IBM portfolio, you’ll find a robust

set of modern tools to help you achieve

new levels of productivity from every

aspect of your data center resources—

from hardware to software to IT staff.

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zSeries Software Tools at a glanceThe diagram below provides an at-a-glance look at the full IBM portfolio of zSeries mainframe software tools. Whether your needs are in information management, systems management, application development and modernization, transaction management or application deployment and integration, IBM can help you develop a complete, flexible and affordable solution to meet your business needs—today and into the future.

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Industry-leading technology

IBM understands that your business must

leverage existing investments to continue

to grow. It must take advantage of

emerging technologies to remain flexible

and competitive. Our reliable and scalable

infrastructure software encourages

rapid e-business growth, helping you

manage your e-business foundations

and extend traditional applications with

Web technology.

IBM knows mainframes, mainframe

software and mainframe software

tools. We continue to invest in leading-

edge technology for your infrastructure

products. Our end-to-end tools solutions

support your information management,

systems management, application

development and Customer Information

Control System (CICS®) needs.

To ease your workload, help free up

valuable resources and enable you to

better manage total cost of mainframe

ownership, IBM is investing heavily in self-

tuning, self-healing and self-managing

technologies. With software that handles

routine tasks, your IT staff can better

focus on business system enhancements.

These tools can also provide trend

analysis and forecasting information

to help your administrators with

system optimization.

How software and hardware work together

IBM offers complete zSeries solutions

that integrate hardware, software, and

required support and service.

A constant challenge for any IT

organization is better management of

rising mainframe costs—both hardware

and software. As the demand for new

workloads increases, it’s become

critical to manage assets, control costs,

and negotiate better pricing terms and

conditions. IBM is dedicated to helping

ensure that you can continue to evolve

your IT environment while also managing

expenses responsibly.

IBM is responding to these IT challenges

by providing organizations with an

extensive array of mainframe software

tools, utilities and pricing options, as

well as the experience gained through

more than 9,000 customer software

tools migrations.

Representing the interests of customers,

our dedicated team includes migration

experts, pricing specialists, pre-sales

support technicians and literally hundreds

of developers. This team can help you

meet the challenges you face—especially

those relating to total cost of ownership.

Making growth affordable

IBM understands that you want to

get your money’s worth out of your

infrastructure investments. IBM offers

pricing terms and conditions that make

growth affordable while bringing you

the same rich functionality and premier

service that is typical of our products.

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When you purchase any One Time

Charge (OTC) IBM software tool, you pay

a one-time license fee, and an annual

subscription and support charge, that

entitles you to new versions and releases

of that tool.

Our software pricing model lets you

continue to increase the capacity of your

mainframes to support additional growth

and new applications. When determining

the cost, you receive credit for your

aggregated purchases and for the

product’s corporate-wide capacity.

Leveraging current investments

IBM understands that your ability to

leverage current technology investments

is an important cost consideration.

Our migration services experts are

available to help you move to IBM

hardware, software and tools, helping

you reduce conversion time through

customized migration planning and

management services. We’ve completed

more than 9,000 migrations, and our

customer satisfaction is high. Customers

like doing business with us because IBM

software is affordable and our migration

service offerings are very flexible.

The combination of our experience

and tools with your knowledge of your

systems creates a cost-effective team

that can help you ensure success. By

analyzing data from your systems and

working with members of your staff and

management, IBM migration specialists

can develop an action plan that helps

minimize disruptions to your operations.

During the migration process, we can

provide on-the-job training for efficient

skills transfer.

What your business demands

Who better to trust than IBM as

you seek tools to integrate with

your IBM infrastructure software

and more effectively manage your

business—particularly when our

tools offer rich functionality and

solid price/performance?

IBM offers nearly 150 mainframe

software tools that your business

demands. Working with customers like

you, we’ve developed products and

solutions that continually enhance the

value of our information management,

systems management, application

development and CICS solutions. Today,

more than 2,000 customers are using

IBM mainframe tools.

“IBM is helping customers raise the productivity of their technical staff and make key mainframe information highly available to their organizations. How? Through major investments in developing and enhancing our portfolio of mainframe software tools.”

—Ray Jones, IBM Vice President, IBM zSeries Software Sales

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• Recovery Management Tools—Manage backup and recovery

operations with a variety of image

copy and recovery tools that

can help reduce elapse time and

improve availability.

• Replication Management Tools—Help improve the value and availability

of copied data with a cost-effective

approach for an Extract Transform and

Load process.

• Application Management Tools—Create and operate the

application subsystems you

need for on demand transactions

and gain cost-effective utilization of your

database management environment.

• IMS Transaction Manager Tools—Define and manage your IMS

environment with unique tools for

managing system queues, issuing

system commands, dynamically

allocating terminals and generating

system definitions.

Tools for Information Management

Your database takes center stage in your

e-business, and it must perform at top

levels. IBM Information Management

Tools for DB2® and IMS™ are specially

designed to enhance the performance

of IBM DB2 Universal Database™ and

IBM IMS for z/OS® and OS/390®. And

IBM DB2 and IMS tools will exploit the full

capabilities of new versions of DB2 and

IMS from date of general availability. Our

DB2 and IMS tools are grouped into seven

functional areas to match your database

and system requirements:

• Database Administration Tools—Help maximize database availability,

meet your most common database

service and support requirements,

streamline object management and

improve the overall performance of

your databases.

• Utilities Management Tools—Manage a wide variety of database

tasks automatically—including

unload, load and many other tasks—

featuring Fast Path, full function and

administration products.

• Performance Management Tools—Keep your systems and databases

running at peak levels, even under

heavy demand, by tuning, monitoring,

and analyzing database and

subsystem performance.

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Because these centralized tools are

designed to share data and functions,

you can select what you need for a

tailored, optimized solution, helping to

make your database environment more

manageable. Enhanced functions for IBM

Information Management Tools are ready

to go when new versions of database

software become available. (We call this

“Day One Availability.”)

DB2 solutions have also been extended

to multiple platforms, offering additional

tools for IBM AIX®, Microsoft® Windows®,

HP-UX, Sun Solaris™ and Linux operating

environments. And IBM DB2 and IMS

tools can help you implement an e-

business on demand™ environment

by providing ever-increasing autonomic

capability. The result: You can better

manage complexity and more fully

optimize your IT resources.

Eventually, autonomic awareness will

become as pervasive in the design

process for tools as in performance and

usability. We’ve improved ease of use

and productivity by applying common

“While we were initially attracted to IBM database tools at Amica for their low total cost of ownership, we’ve quickly realized how indispensable they are for a multitude of tasks, from automating essential database maintenance jobs to helping reduce database query costs. Being able to rely on IBM DB2 tools in Amica’s IT environment, our DBAs have more time to devote to value-added projects such as enhancing the systems that support our highly ranked customer service efforts.”

—Rick Buckley, Database Administration Manager, Amica Mutual Insurance

interfaces across all platforms and

implementing leading-edge technology

to support self-tuning and self-managing

capabilities. With IBM Information

Management Tools, you have the quality,

reliability and affordability you need to

help you generate the greatest value from

your DB2 and IMS environments.

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Tools for Systems Management

Designed to help you manage the

complexity of an integrated, on demand

e-business environment, Tivoli®

software from IBM extends the

boundaries of traditional network and

systems management from the data

center across the Internet.

Tivoli software can help you reduce

the cost and complexity of managing

the networks, systems, databases and

applications that power your e-business.

For example, these Systems Management

Tools help you better understand how

various IT events affect the availability of

critical business processes.

Addressing areas such as business

service management, availability,

security, optimization, provisioning

and orchestration, Tivoli Systems

Management Tools include:

• IBM Tivoli NetView®—Discover and

monitor networks, manage events and

gather performance data.

• IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler—Control work flow in an

entire infrastructure on local and

remote systems.

• IBM Tivoli System Automation/390® and IBM Tivoli System Automation for Linux—Help ensure system and

application availability and operational

effectiveness with advanced policy-

based automation.

• IBM Tivoli Decision Support—View

consolidated enterprise management

data, seeing hidden patterns and

natural relationships among the data.

• IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Network Performance—Detect and automatically

recover from bottlenecks and

potential problems.

• IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Web Infrastructure—Gain a single point of

control to understand the health of key

elements of a Web-based environment.

• IBM Tivoli Storage Manager—Back up and restore data automatically

on a broad range of platforms and

storage devices.

• IBM Tivoli Storage Optimizer—Track capacity and usage changes

over time.

• IBM Tivoli Information Management—Record and maintain

information for problems as they

occur and address problem areas

before they occur.

• IBM Tivoli Business Systems Management—Manage real-time

problems in the context of your

enterprise’s business priorities.

• IBM Tivoli Access Manager for Business Integration—Protect

application-level data for IBM

WebSphere® MQ-based applications.

• IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Business Integration—Add comprehensive

monitoring and management

capabilities for IBM WebSphere MQ.

“The self-configuring capabilities of Tivoli Storage Manager help us optimize data protection across all our applications. We have more than 100 servers. If our storage management solution could not support all our platforms, we would be in trouble.”

—Yong Seung Hwang, Chief Information Officer, Korean Air

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Tivoli software solutions have helped

solve technology management

challenges for customers around the

globe. They work together to help

manage all facets of your total business

system environment and help you

consolidate events from different sources

into a business perspective.

Tools for Enterprise Application

Development and Modernization

Mainframe application development

is growing along with e-business.

That’s because companies are reusing

their current software applications,

transactions, data and other assets to

take advantage of the capabilities of

modern technologies, such as HTML,

Java and Web services.

To support this effort, IBM has introduced

new tools for developing enterprise

applications. These span all phases

of application development—from

modernizing existing software…to

developing new applications using

Java, COBOL, PL/I and other tools…to

deploying applications, including

performance and fault analysis.

Our portfolio of Application Development

and Modernization Tools includes:

• Asset Discovery Tools—Understand

what enterprise applications you’re

running today with products such as

IBM WebSphere Studio Asset Analyzer

or IBM CICS Interdependency Analyzer.

• Application Modernization Tools—Renew your legacy software

with products such as IBM

WebSphere Studio Enterprise

Developer and IBM Host Access

Transformation Server.

• Business Modeling Tools—Extend

and enhance business processes

using products such as IBM

WebSphere Business Integration

Modeler and IBM WebSphere Business

Integration Monitor.

• Deployment Readiness Tools—Deploy new applications using

Web technologies with products

such as IBM WebSphere Studio

Application Monitor and IBM

WebSphere Studio Workload Simulator. As you would expect from IBM, these

development tools combine best-of-

breed design with the robust stability

demanded by the toughest mission-

critical environments. You can be

confident that the most advanced

technologies can now be easily deployed

on the mainframe. Your investment in

mainframe applications can continue to

deliver increased return on investment at

reduced costs.

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Tools for Transaction Management

Many CICS software-based applications

run 24 hours a day, seven days a week,

handling thousands of interactive users

and millions of transactions per day. IBM

CICS software tools can help enable you

to maintain the high level of performance

and availability that you expect from

your CICS Transaction Server systems.

Designed to help you improve resource

utilization and enhance the efficiency of

your CICS systems, they include:

• Performance Management with IBM CICS Performance Monitor and IBM CICS Performance Analyzer—Provide higher system availability

and improved capacity planning

to meet the challenges of an

e-business environment.

• Application Reuse with IBM CICS Interdependency Analyzer—Help

maintain and enhance your core CICS

applications and IBM CICS Business

Event Publisher for MQSeries® so you

can rapidly extend CICS applications

into the e-business world.

• Operational Efficiency with IBM Session Manager and IBM CICS Online Transmission Time Optimizer—Designed to help improve

resource utilization and end-user

productivity.

• Resource Recovery with IBM CICS VSAM Recovery—Designed to help

avoid costly outages caused by VSAM

data loss.

• Data Migration with IBM CICS VSAM Transparency—Help

unlock value in data used by legacy

applications and extend its use to new

DB2 applications.

These CICS tools can help you meet your

service-level commitments and reduce

operational costs while enabling you to

exploit the full potential of new e-business

functions introduced in the CICS

Transaction Server. And new CICS tools

will continue to be available, providing

even more functionality to help get the

most from your CICS systems.

Tools for Application

Deployment and Integration

IBM’s Application Deployment and

Integration Tools support the run-time

deployment, management, optimization

and life-cycle support of enterprise

applications and integration software—

including key run-time infrastructure

engines such as IBM WebSphere

Application Server and IBM

WebSphere MQ. Application Deployment

and Integration Tools include:

• Business Integration Tools—Realize

the benefits of end-to-end integration

with products like IBM WebSphere

Business Integration Message

Broker and IBM WebSphere MQ

Integrator Broker.

• Application Deployment Tools—Deploy dynamic e-business applications

with IBM WebSphere Studio Asset

Analyzer and IBM WebSphere Studio

Enterprise Developer.

• Application Performance Management Tools—Access and

repurpose business-critical systems

and information using IBM WebSphere

Studio Application Monitor and IBM

WebSphere Studio Workload Simulator.

• Application Lifecycle Management Tools—Perform essential analysis and

diagnosis with products such as IBM

Fault Analyzer, IBM File Manager, IBM

Workload Simulator, IBM Application

Monitor and IBM Debug Tool Utilities.

Count on the leader in integration,

information management and security

By creating a cost-effective portfolio of

zSeries software tools, IBM is making

it easier for businesses like yours to

keep pace with market and customer

demands, more economically, efficiently

and flexibly. The result: When customer

needs and/or marketplace realities

change, you can quickly adapt your

business to the new environment.

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IBM is your single, accountable

source, combining deep industry

and business process expertise with

market-leading technology.

IBM offers business and technology

solutions that increase productivity

through improvements in IT efficiency.

IBM protects your existing infrastructure

and helps ensure continuity of operations.

All of which enable you to focus on

growing your business profitably and

outperforming the competition.

Taking care of your tools

As IT departments learn to cope with

complicated infrastructures and adjust

to new and changing workloads, it

becomes increasingly difficult to add

value to the corporate bottom line while

balancing the expense of growth. The

key to deriving maximum value from

a zSeries investment, and to reducing

the total cost of ownership, lies in your

organization’s ability to better manage its

software portfolio.

Software asset management is a

discipline that your organization should

engage in every day, paying attention to

basic principles such as:

• Eliminating licenses for software that

is no longer in use.

• Consolidating purchasing across

an enterprise rather than at a

site-by-site level.

• Keeping track of current contracts,

their duration and when they need

to be renewed.

Knowing what’s on the horizon for your

business demands—and being proactive

and thoughtful about how software is

applied—can be useful in future contract

negotiations and can help manage costs.

Moreover, diligent asset management can

also help to prevent unforeseen crises

during upgrades or migrations.

The ultimate benefit of software

asset management lies in proactively

managing your organization’s total cost of

ownership. To help businesses gain

a better understanding of their total cost

of ownership and the impact that

the software portfolio has on that

bottom line, IBM offers a software

portfolio review and analysis service

to organizations worldwide.

Your trusted advisor for

on demand e-business

In IBM, you have a trusted advisor with a

clear roadmap and strategy for evolving

your enterprise to an on demand

e-business. IBM Enterprise Tools for

zSeries provide you with manageable and

economical options that can help keep

you up and running today while allowing

you to plan intelligently for the future. To

find out more about IBM software tools

for the zSeries platform, visit ibm.com/

software/zseries.

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An exceptional platform running

exceptional software

As business enters a new world—the on

demand world—the ability to detect and

respond to changing market conditions,

customer demands and external threats

is a critical consideration in determining

success. At the same time, organizations

need to find new ways to cut costs and

increase revenues while still allowing high

availability of critical services, applications

and data across the enterprise.

The mainframe is proving to be the centerpiece of 21st century e-business.

Building a successful environment for

e-business on demand operations begins

with a solid and simple foundation of

hardware and software. IBM zSeries servers are the platform on

which today’s organizations have relied

for decades. Combine that platform with

robust, high-function software and tools,

and today’s e-minded organizations have

a powerful, end-to-end solution for a

responsive and dependable on demand

business environment.