Data Management Solution
Are your storage resources being wasted, performing unnecessary or redundant work?
Answering this question may be harder than you think. Without an effective HSM tool, it's almost impossible to determine where resources may be wasted, how the resources are being wasted, how many resources are being wasted, and how you can correct this issue. Without knowing it, your company could be wasting hundreds of thousands of dollars or more annually.
Complex environments such as DFSMShsm™ require constant monitoring and tuning. Data sets that are constantly being created, migrated, and recalled need to be examined to ensure they are in the correct DFSMS™ class definitions and that valuable resources are not being wasted. As data assets grow, managing DFSMShsm effectively and proactively is more crucial than ever.
What Causes Waste
Conditions in DFSMShsm environment known for wasting valuable system resources include:
- HSM data set thrashing
- Recalling old, unneeded data
- Lost or corrupted migrated and backup data
- Control data set corruption
Eliminating the Waste of Resources
Auditing is the key to identifying areas of waste; however, how can you perform effective audits without adversely affecting your environment?
Take advantage of non-disruptive auditing to save resources and avoid catastrophic failures before they happen. With the Data Management Solution, you can audit DFSMShsm environments in a fraction of the time. Even better, you can define automatic fixes for specific errors and determine how to fix data sets and high-level qualifiers. Total control is in your hands.
Find, analyze, and tune data sets that are wasting valuable resources and MIPs. Quickly identify where resources are being wasted and correct these problem areas. When analyzing this information, you also need to know the possible results of a change before making the change. All too often, a technician will make a change to an HSM controlled data set and not know what the effect of the change will be until after it is complete. Sometimes even a minor change can have drastic results for an environment and system.
What happens when HSM data becomes lost or corrupted? With the unique functionality in the Data Management Solution, you can rebuild lost or corrupted HSM data. Even though this ability is critical, it's not available in any other solution available today.
The Data Management Solution includes:
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