Tivoli Migration Team (TMT)

As some z/OS® utilities software vendors (USV) continue raising their software prices by as much as 30 to 50 percent a year, more and more companies are seeking alternatives to their products, pricing, terms and conditions. As a result, many are turning to the Tivoli Migration Team (TMT).

The TMT has performed more than 3,500 systems management migrations for companies of all sizes. Focusing strictly on migrations to IBM/Tivoli host-based systems management products, our expertise enables us to assist clients with every step of their migration. These customer partnerships have resulted in a customer satisfaction rating of more than 95%!

Our specialists have helped clients migrate from Computer Associates, BMC and other companies' software.

Why Migrate to IBM / Tivoli Products?

Our z/OS® systems mangement products offer a broad range of solutions that are designed to meet customer requirements today and into the future. Our software solutions:

• Offer a higher level of integration and synergy with z/OS and other IBM software. This helps reduce complexity making our software easier to plan for, install, use and maintain.
• Leverage the strength of z/OS® for greater reliability, availability and scalability.
• Include Tivoli Enterprise support for z/OS which enables z/OS systems management products to communicate with their distributed counterparts.
• Continue to be enhanced in the form of new product releases and versions.
• Simplify migration to new technologies - Parallel Sysplex®, Open Edition®, etc.
• Come with IBM Service and Support.

• Automation - Systems Automation for z/OS, Integrated Operations Management and Multiplatforms (SA for z/OS).
• Network Management - Tivoli OMEGAMON for Mainframe Networks and Tivoli NetView for z/OS,
• Performance Management - Tivoli Decision Support for z/OS (TDSz), DFSMS Optimizer®, z/OS Resource Measurement Facility (RMF)®, Tivoli NetView for z/OS and Tivoli Data Exchange (TDE).
• Performance Monitoring - Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for CICS on z/OS, Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for IMS on z/OS, Tivoli OMEGAMON XE on z/OS, Tivoli OMEGAMON DE on z/OS, Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for DB2 PE on z/OS, Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for DB2 PM on z/OS, Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for Messaging.
• Security - z/OS Security Server (RACF)®.
• Service Management - Tivoli Information Management for z/OS (InfoMan).
• Storage Management - DFSMSrmm Removable Media Manager(RMM)®, and Data Facility Sort (DF Sort)®, DFSMShsm Hierarchical Storage Manager(HSM)® Tivoli Storage Manager z/OS (TSMz)
• Workload Management - Tivoli Workload Scheduler(TWS).

Migration Assessment - helps identify the migration issues unique to a specific environment. A migration assessment estimates the resources, time and cost needed for a migration project .

Migration Planning Service - a migration specialist leads a joint client / IBM team that develops a migration plan detailing the tasks, target dates and people assignments.

Conversion Tools Services - for products with large amounts of operational data, conversion tools may be used to automate the translation from one format to another thereby reducing the time and errors involved in the conversion.

Migration Consulting Services - migration specialists can provide guidance throughout the migration project. Typically, consulting services are provided during the technical analysis, testing and cut over phases of the project. Services can be provided on-site, via phone or remote dial-up.

Migration Implementation Services - assistance in the actual implementation of migration services include:

• Product installation and customization
• Implementation of new function
• Exit design and/or coding
• Testing, test planning and validation
• Operations skills transfer
• Project management