IBM CICS Tools: Unrealized Productivity Gains and True Cost Savings
This Branham Group white paper provides an independent perspective on the value of IBM's CICS tools.
In co-operation with IBM, Branham interviewed various existing IBM CICS Tools customers, focusing in particular on IBM CICS Interdependency Analyzer, CICS Performance Analyzer, and CICS Configuration Manager, when common value propositions emerged. The following provides just a snapshot of the achievablecost savings:
o 75% time savings for the identification, coding, and testing of CPSM rules, in some cases equating to the recovery of a whole month in time savings for a major affinity.
o Upwards of 90% time savings to identify and validate typical performance issue related changes.
o An average of 66% less time to administer CICS Service Definition changes, which happen on a daily basis.
o The recovery of 2%-15% of CPU cycles through the designation of CICS applications as threadsafe.
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