IBM Service Management Center for System z

With IBM Service Management Center for System z, you can now see and manage all components across your infrastructure – distributed systems, mainframes, operating systems, applications and data.

Choose from a rich portfolio of solutions that can provide comprehensive visibility, control and automation across the enterprise for effective management of the IT infrastructure.

Some of the benefits of the centralized management and single point of control provided by IBM SMCz are:

-Improved performance and reduced costs through comprehensive visibility

-Simplified operations and administration of enterprise-wide services

-Leverages the quality of service, extreme reliability and solid security of the IBM mainframe

-Makes the business process efficient and effective with a single point of control to request, model, schedule and execute changes across the enterprise

-Automated processes reduce cost, human error and the time required to fulfill business needs

-Solutions that span both z/OS and Linux on System z help:

• Centralize ITIL-based management for Linux on System z applications and z/OS subsystems
• Ease management of new and variable mainframe workloads and provides ability to standardize Linux on System z software stacks
• Enable a single team to manage the entire mainframe environment with common, integrated tools

-Solutions that span mainframe and open systems help:

• Centralize ITIL-based management across entire business and enterprise-wide platforms
• Reduce staff education, training and support burdens by allowing tool consolidation
• Allow operations and administrative teams to scale and easily manage newly added or acquired services without adding to headcount