Professional Services Overview

Solving data management challenges

At Mainstar®, we are committed to solving your z/OS® infrastructure and data management challenges. Mainstar's Professional Services offers a depth of knowledge gained only through years of experience. Our professionals specialize in business resiliency and compliance, catalog management, data management, DFSMShsm™, and general storage management. We offer services to fully implement our software solutions or just help you get started, and can provide an educational foundation to better support the technology. Engaging Mainstar's experienced professionals empowers your staff to carry on an efficient and effective data management program.

We offer analysis, recommendations, and implementation services for a wide variety of z/OS® infrastructure and data management needs.

Business Resiliency and Compliance

Critical data backup assessment; identification of data with no backup
Data backup and recovery strategies using a variety of data movers for both local and offsite recovery
Backup management systems for tracking, inventory, recovery support, and audit reporting
Long-term data retention solutions including audit reporting and automatic expiration
Transparent backup, tracking, propagation, and audit reporting for z/OS system changes

Catalog Management

ICF catalog infrastructure health-check and tuning
Elimination of risks associated with in-balanced catalogs
Internal structural diagnostics and correction
ICF catalog backup and recovery considerations for Business Resiliency

Data Management

Migrating data to new storage media including projects to employ larger capacity volumes
Cloning DB2 for testing, availability, and maintenance
Cloning non-DB2 environments

DFSMShsm

Conversions from CA-Disk™ or FDR/ABR to DFSMShsm
DFSMShsm heath-check and tuning
Archiving inactive DFSMShsm owned data
DFSMShsm Control Data Set audit and error correction
Merging or splitting DFSMShsm environments; moving managed data to other environments

General Storage Management

DFSMS™ implementation; ACS routine health-check and tuning
Staff augmentation
Autonomic DASD de-fragmentation