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September 2010
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Description
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Simplification of an IT system has many rewards. It can address the need for skills
by making existing personnel more productive and by reducing the time needed for
someone new to gain proficiency on the platform. It can address overall operational
efficiency by reducing the components and steps for tasks, and by streamlining
existing processes. And it can address quality of service and availability by reducing
the time involved with addressing a problem, or by reducing the probability of the
error even being introduced.
Ultimately, simplification can make your IT organization more responsive in meeting
business needs because IT systems and processes are less apt to get in the way
when action and agility are needed. This is IBM's long-term goal for mainframe
simplification. More than a "screen scraper" or a pop-up installation shield and more
than new layers of management processes, IBM has taken the long-term outlook
by simplifying a mainframe system from the inside out and from end to end. IBM
technologies are truly efficient and can help drive down the cost of complexity,
reduce the cost from risk, and drive up user productivity and overall system agility.
IBM's commitment to mainframe simplification has been vast and has been
delivered integrated into the platform stack. CICS Explorer provides CICS
architects, developers, system programmers, and administrators a common tooling
environment, with integrated access to a wide range of data and control capabilities.
DB2® Data Studio provides an integrated set of tooling to support all phases
of the data management life cycle. IMS is planned to provide a new integrated
development environment and operational console to accelerate the development
time for new IMS applications and optimize collaboration between IMS DBAs, system
programmers, and application developers. Rational® Developer for System z helps
simplify collaboration, development, and delivery of business applications and
integrate existing core business applications with Web services and SOA. Tivoli®
Service Management Center provides a set of integrated solutions and building
blocks that allows a business to implement an enterprise-wide service management
and process automation hub on System z. These technologies have the power to
reduce application development, deployment, and management times significantly.
z/OS has had many improvements in the area of simplification as well. The past
several releases of z/OS delivered improvements in the areas of simplifying
diagnosis and problem determination; network and security management;
and overall z/OS I/O configuration, sysplex, and storage operations. These
improvements are designed to help simplify systems management; to improve
application programmer, system programmer, and operator productivity; and to
provide fewer opportunities for the introduction of human errors.
• The z/OS Management Facility (z/OSMF, 5655-S28) is the new face for z/OS
and it provides support for a modern, Web-browser-based management console
for z/OS. Automated tasks and wizards can guide users through tasks and help
provide simplified operations. In z/OSMF V1.11, for example, tasks taking up to
20 minutes, such as collecting and packaging dump data, can now take as little as
30 seconds.
For its next release, z/OSMF V1.12 is planned to be expanded with the addition of
z/OS Workload Manager Policy Editor functionality, enhancements to the already
valuable Incident Log and Configuration Assistant for the z/OS Communications
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