MAINFRAME DATAMANIPULATION

Mainframes play a critical role in the daily operations of the

world’s largest corporations. The reliability of the

mainframe has led to its popularity and longevity.

Businesses today rely on the mainframe to:

• Perform large-scale transaction processing (thousands

of transactions per second)

• Support thousands of users and application programs

concurrently accessing numerous resources

• Manage terabytes of information in databases

• Handle large-bandwidth communication

Mainframes, commonly known as Systems of Record, host

a large volume of enterprise data in a variety of formats.

The volume of data and differences in data format present

challenges for end users who want to manipulate the data.

IBM and HCL have a solution to enable you to manipulate

the data efficiently via consistent user experience.

Introduction

IBM and HCL have entered into a 15+ year IP partnership.

HCL created a new division called HCL Products and

Platforms specifically to continue the development,

support and customer advocacy for IBM IP. HCL will

accelerate product roadmaps; delivering new features and

functionality, making the products better than ever

HCL is taking a "hypercare" approach to client

engagement and have expanded IBM's Lab Advocate

Program; more than doubling the current lab services

capacity available for terminal emulation and

transformation products. Further, new service offerings will

be available for new and existing clients.

The Partnership

Work efficiently with large volume of

mainframe data stored in a variety

of formats.

File Manager for z/OS enables you to manipulate data

stored in data sets and Hierarchical File System (HFS) files,

WebSphere MQ, CICS, DB2 and IMS. Layouts of binary data

are described using File Manager templates. You can

create a File Manager template from COPYBOOKs

(COBOL, PL/I or Assembler) or XML-formatted inputs.

Using File Manager templates, you can describe most

complex data structures. In return, File Manager provides

human-friendly interfaces for manipulating data

interactively or in batch.

File Manager for z/OS not only allows you to manipulate

data on your local system, but it also provides support for

accessing data on remote systems over TCP/IP network.

The remote system support is embedded in all File

Manager functions which make extremely useful for typical

end users today who are required to work on multiple

systems.

The latest release of File Manager for z/OS product, V14.1,

introduces a significant number of productivity

improvement features for ISPF users in Development and

Operations. For example, it’s Extended Search function

enables you to group a set of resources for a search (any

combination of data sets, HFS files, MQ and CICS on local

system as well as remote systems), and enables you to

navigate to resources containing the search string quickly.

This function can be executed interactively as well as in

batch. Batch results can be viewed in the same search

result display which enables quick navigation.

File Manager for z/OS provides a set of essential functions

during z/OS application performance optimization. It helps

you understand compilers and options used to create load

modules by processing selected load module libraries.

Based on the information, you can start to estimate the

feasibility and effort involved in optimizing the

performance of selected load modules.

The Products

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File Manager for z/OS product enables efficient manipulation of mainframe data. The typical users include mainframe

System Programmers and Application Developers. In addition, File Manager for z/OS product provides a range of

productivity improvement features for ISPF users in Development and Operations.

The Value

File Manager for z/OS is an essential member of IBM Application Delivery Foundation for z Systems family of products. It

can be purchased individually as well as a bundle of software products designed to help mainframe customers begin the

journey of DevOps transformation.

Browse, Edit and

View data

interactively using

smart editors

Process data in

batch (e.g. Copy,

compare, export

find/change,

import, print)

Test data

preparation

Load module

analysis to assist

z/OS application

performance

optimization

Improve

productivity of

ISPF users and

simplified data

access