Business benefits
Features, advantages and benefits
| Features | Advantages | Benefits |
|---|---|---|
| Auto-Discovery | Extracts relevant data from active address spaces and correlates to SA z/OS sample policies | Quickly build policies and make them ready to use without a lot of manual effort |
| Job Log Monitoring | Application messages written to joblog now available for automation | Messages forwarded for automation without manually going thru job log |
| Runmodes | Staged IPL or system shutdown with only subset of resources started or stopped. Can be used to switch from one environment to another, for example, from a normal mode into a disaster recovery mode or switching from a weekday configuration to a weekend configuration | Eliminates need to have multiple policy databases, for example, production environment vs. disaster recovery. Maintaining just one policy can help reduce labor effort and help reduce input errors |
| TEP Topology | Combines dependency graph with resource status to allows operators to notice odd system behavior | Quickly spot problems and verify relationships |
| GDPS | New sample policies focused on GDPS environments | Help to quickly and easily set up datacenters to run GDPS workloads |
| zEnterprise zBX Support | Manipulate zBX objects such as BladeCenters, blade servers, virtual hosts, virtual servers | Discovery, querying activating, monitoring and automating of zBX components |
