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On June 10th, Mainstar announced General Availability for the new Storage Plug-In module for MXI G2 for z/OS, which will provide users of MXI G2 with new storage reporting for their z/OS DASD farm. The Storage Plug-In provides technical staff with access to information about datasets, DASD volumes, pools, SMS classes and other information critical for your staff’s understanding of the exact health and status of the storage system.
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There are many HSM reporting products available on the market today, and companies are looking more for products that can provide multiple functions such as reporting, administration and tuning of a DFSMShsm environment and the data it controls.
Most of these products report on migration, backup, recycle, what was successful and what was not successful - but the end result is they are all just DFSMShsm reporting products.
HSM Reporter/Manager (HRM) Version 9.2 takes DFSMShsm reporting two steps further than these other reporting products by providing users with the ability to administer DFSMShsm requests and tasks from within the product while tuning DFSMShsm for requests and scheduled work.
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Are many - or all - of your application backups taken while the applications execute? Are you sure all of the application-critical data have current backups? Can you prove your applications are recoverable? Support for all of these issues is provided by Mainstar’s Backup and Recovery Manager (BRM) Suite.
When application backups are performed by multiple jobs and processes throughout the application cycles, it is difficult to monitor and manage the processes manually. But it is much easier when the application backups are performed at specific points in time by specific jobs but this is not always an option. To ensure that applications are recoverable, you need to perform a few specific tasks for each application.
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Mainstar @ SHARE in Boston
Following is a list of sessions being presented by Rocket Software professionals at the upcoming SHARE event in Boston. If you are not able to be with us at the HynesCenter, we'd be happy to send you our presentations or set up a private briefing session. For more information, contact Doug Bryan.
Tuesday, August 3
3:00 PM-4:00 PM in Room 311 (Hynes Convention Center)
Hints and Tips for Improving Your DFSMShsm Environment
Speakers: Steve W. Clar (Rocket Software) and Chris Taylor (IBM Corporation)
Wednesday, August 4
11:00 AM-12:00 PM in Room 209 (Hynes Convention Center)
The New Storage Reporting Plug-in for Mainstar MXI
Speaker: Steve W. Clar (Rocket Software)
3:00 PM-4:00 PM in Room 103 (Hynes Convention Center)
Simplifiy and Improve IMS Database Administration by Leveraging Your Storage System
Speaker: Ron Haupert (Rocket Software)
Thursday, August 5
8:00 AM-9:00 AM in Room 309 (Hynes Convention Center)
ICF Catalog Synchronization at the DR Site Using Catalog RecoveryPlus
Speaker: Janet Sun (Rocket Software)
9:30 AM-10:30 AM in Room 103 (Hynes Convention Center)
Simplify and Improve DB2 Administration by Leveraging Your Storage System
Speaker: Ron Haupert (Rocket Software)
11:00 AM-12:00 PM in Room 306 (Hynes Convention Center)
A Gentle Introduction to z/VM System Installation for the Inexperienced
Speaker: Dan Martin (Rocket Software)
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