tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50269427116531022102024-02-18T19:34:55.129-08:00zEnterprise SW solutionsBlog che contiene l'elenco delle soluzioni SW per ambiente zEnterpriseDoctor Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10864299795695818127noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026942711653102210.post-27994310431788061282017-06-01T06:25:00.002-07:002017-06-01T06:28:29.630-07:00Work as One Team in the IT Operational Data Analytic<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A silos based status quo was present in many enterprises for many
years. Different team, who take care of different subsystems, were
working and focusing on their own subsystem or discipline only, with
very limited interaction with other team in the enterprise. As time
goes, the pressure to deliver faster to be "in the business", the
importance to reduce outages and the time to solve any issue to have
business application available 24x7, increased exponentially. The silos
based approach is no longer suitable, mobile and internet penetration in
the daily activities require business application to be always
available, scalable and timely updated to react to business/users
requests. All of this agility and reliability is achievable having in
the back-end a team that work together on problem determination, beyond
the specific subsystem point of view. The team need to have a complete
end to end view of the applications components, access to the log data
from the different subsystems part of the final application.<br />
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and comprehensive access to the IT Operational Data is crucial to
achieve the goal given from current business expectations. <a href="https://www.ibm.com/us-en/marketplace/common-data-provider-for-z-systems" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">IBM Common Data Provider for z Systems</a>
is the answer, being able to collect all the z/OS IT Operational Data
in near real time, including SMF record, as well as SYSLOG (IBM z/OS
System Log and USS SyslogD), JOBLOGs and application logs (IBM CICS
Transaction Server logs and IBM WebSphere Application Server logs).<br />
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the these IT operational data are streamed by CDPz to the Analytic
engine choose in the enterprise. CDPz is able to stream the data to IBM
Operational Analytics for z/OS, that provides pre-canned dashboards and
reports to improve problem determination time and analytic. Moreover
CDPz is able to stream all of the data collected to Splunk as well as to
an ELK stack or Hadoop. Moreover, if in the Enterprise there are
different teams taking care of different applications/disciplines that
span over different subsystems and/or systems, with CDPz is possible to
filter what data are to be streamed to what analytic engine. So the data
are read once and with one single tool, the data related to a specific
discipline (like security for example) can be sent to Splunk for
analysis and monitoring of security threat, in the meantime the log
related to a specific application coming from CICS and WebSphere can be
streamed to an Elastic Search Kibana stack for log monitoring, DB2 data
are in the meantime sent to an <a href="https://www.ibm.com/us-en/marketplace/operations-analytics-for-z-systems" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">IBM Operation Analytics for z/OS</a> installation for database health monitoring and problem determination in case of issue.<br />
Learn more about all the possible scenario you can implement with <a href="https://www.ibm.com/us-en/marketplace/operations-analytics-for-z-systems" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">IBM Common Data Provider for z Systems</a> (ibm.biz/CDPzProd) and <a href="https://www.ibm.com/us-en/marketplace/operations-analytics-for-z-systems" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">IBM Operations Analytics for z Systems </a>(ibm.biz/IOAzProd).<br />
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To get more information, please contact:<br />
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<span class="field-text ">Domenico.DAlterio@it.ibm.com</span><br />
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<span class="field-text "><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/work-one-team-operational-data-analytic-domenico-d-alterio?published=t"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Link to article in LinkedIn</span></a></span>Doctor Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10864299795695818127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026942711653102210.post-28072378159533217792012-04-18T01:39:00.001-07:002012-04-18T01:41:11.492-07:00Solution for mainframe SW products management<h2>
Business need</h2>
Living in times of economic crisis means working with IT
budgets that, in the best cases, are flat. Most of the times IT budgets are
decreasing year on year. If a company wants to stay competitive, a deep
analysis of its software products portfolio has to be performed, in order to
optimize the investments.
<br />Starting point of all these activities is a constantly updated and effective software inventory, based on real utilization data.In order to obtain this info, it’s no longer possible to use local tools or manual lists that, when you need them are never updated at the current status.
<br />This solution allows customer to automate the process,
supports deep analysis on presence and utilization of product libraries. As
final target, this solution will allow customer to perform effective Software
Asset Management policy in order to define effective software costs
optimization actions.
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Architectural diagram</h2>
Solution is based on Tivoli Asset Discovery for z/OS, as
this component is able to recognize software products matching presence data (collected through scanning of storage DASDs) against a constantly updated knowledge base it has.Once the SW product is recognized, is able to understand if a product is used or not, intercepting all the calls to load modules. All the data is in a database accessed by a web browser (provided with the product) and can be accessed in HTML, CSV, XLS or TXT format.
<br />Old copies or local versions are also recognized. This
allows customer to perform effective software portfolio governance, being able
to provide immediate answers to SW compliances.
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Prerequisite software</h2>
Solution requires IBM<b> Tivoli Asset Discovery for z/OS V7.5 </b>(5698-B39).
This product is able to identify all load modules libraries related to each software product (IBM and not IBM) and it’s able to intercept all load modules calls. Central environment where all the data is collected requires a DB2 z/OS database. For this reason, on the image where central repository is placed, DB2 z/OS V8 (or higher) is required. <br />
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Available resources to get more info about the solution</h2>
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Sales references</h3>
<b>Fabio Riva</b> - Architect IBM - Fabio is the IT Architect who participated to the development of this solution. In order to get more info, please send an email to: <a href="mailto:fabio.riva@it.ibm.com">fabio.riva@it.ibm.com</a><br />
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Sales references</h3>
<b>Paola Monteferri</b> - European Tivoli for System z Primus - In order to get more info, please send an email to:<a href="mailto:MONTEFER@it.ibm.com">MONTEFER@it.ibm.com</a><br />
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Customer references:</h3>
In order to get more info, please send an email to: <a href="mailto:fabio.riva@it.ibm.com">fabio.riva@it.ibm.com</a><br />
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More detailed info: </h3>
In order to get more info, please send an email to: <a href="mailto:fabio.riva@it.ibm.com">fabio.riva@it.ibm.com</a>Doctor Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10864299795695818127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026942711653102210.post-34393576797962593412012-04-08T06:58:00.001-07:002012-04-18T01:41:20.138-07:00Solution to control and manage Mainframe Applications<h2>
Business need</h2>
Managing mainframe applications is often a complicated activity. This is due to several reasons. Over the years, most of the companies had to face the ups and downs of their economica and technical life, and this turmoil modifyed companies' structure, increasing the applications layers complexity.
One of the possible reasons is the continuous evolution of application environment (introduction of innovative technologies, coexistence of new developments with traditional applications developed many years ago and still fundamental assets of the companiy, etc.). Another reason can depend from external factors (companies consolidations and mergeing..with consolidation of different application environments) or internal ones (loosing personnel with high skill on existing applications due to personnel cuts or retirements, use of vendor applications instead of in-house developments, etc.)
Based on these pains, several customers ask us to develop a solution able to control application at <i>runtime</i> level. Such a solution will allow us to control both the existence of an application (physical presence on DASD) and applicaton activity (calls to load modules). This should be possible for batch activities, IMS activities and CICS activities.
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Architectural Diagram</h2>
Following a summary schema to describe how we implemented the solution. A TADz agent is active on each system and it collects usage data. Data about physical presence of applications <i>load modules</i> is also collected. Collected data is then inserted into the central repository, matching the information about application (application name and related libraries/modules). Product is able to catch and collect application info on batch, IMS, and CICS environments. Its possible to monitor and control USS/Unix environments, too.
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Prerequisite Software</h2>
<b>IBM Tivoli Asset Discovery for z/OS V7.5 </b> (5698-B39) is the software product required to seup the solution. This product is able to identify all load modules libraries and to intercept all the calls to load modules, and this data is compressed and optimized, so it uses a very small amount of space. Data is collected in a central database on DB2 z/OS, so DB2 for z/OS (V8 or later) is required only for one LPAR where we decided to place the central environment.
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Available resources to get more info about the solution</h2>
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Technical references</h3>
<b>Fabio Riva </b> - zClient Architect IBM - Fabio is the IT Architect who partecipate to the development of this solution. In order to get more info, please send an email to:<a href="mailto:fabio.riva@it.ibm.com">fabio.riva@it.ibm.com</a>
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Sales references</h3>
<b>Paola Monteferri </b> - European Tivoli for System z Primus - In order to get more info, please send an email to:<a href="mailto:MONTEFER@it.ibm.com">MONTEFER@it.ibm.com</a>
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Customer references</h2>
In order to get more info, please send an email to:<a href="mailto:fabio.riva@it.ibm.com">fabio.riva@it.ibm.com</a>
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More detailed info</h2>
In order to get more info, please send an email to:<a href="mailto:fabio.riva@it.ibm.com">fabio.riva@it.ibm.com</a>Doctor Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10864299795695818127noreply@blogger.com0