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ASG – Mainframe Application Management Roadmap and Strategic Direction
March 2012
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ASG – Application Management Suite Today’s Application Management Solutions
ASG AMS Support as at
September 2011
ASG-Alliance, Estimate, Recap, Insight, Encore, SmartDoc, SmartFile, PathPoint, ASG-Becubic
ASG-SmartDoc, Alliance, Recap, ASG-becubic
ASG-SmartTest, SmartScope, SmartFile, PathPoint,
TriTune, APC
ASG-SmartEdit, Encore, AutoChange, Bridge, SmartFile, LCM
Requirements
Definition
Analysis, Design &
Specifications
Code Change
Testing &
Performance
Measurement
Documentation
Implementation
ASG-Visual Process
Development / Maintenance Lifecycle
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Customer Issues
•Despite the emergence of new platforms and access technologies, the z/OS mainframe and associated technologies still support substantial portions of business-critical functionality Valuable legacy
•Many experienced and talented technicians are moving on, taking their knowledge and expertise with them
•A new generation of developers has different expectations of supporting tool ware
Changing workforce
•The IT cost structure is changing radically
•Cloud / Virtualization
•SaaS/PaaS/IaaS
•Specialized Processors
•… All driving a need to optimize cost of supporting legacy
Economic pressures
•The eclipse platform
•IBM RDz development environment New Technology
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• Increase productivity
• Better quality
• Better performance
• Faster deployment
• Help to exploit newer software technologies
• Help to exploit newer mainframe technologies
• Rapid problem diagnosis
Value propositions
for
Mainframe Application Developer
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Measurable Value Propositions
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•ASG’s Mainframe Application Management of Products are enterprise-wide solutions spanning ESW, SmartTeam, Trilog and LCM technologies
•For the next three years, ASG Mainframe Application Management is focused on three solution areas
•ASG’s APM Solution enable the monitoring of mission-critical applications to provide consistent availability and performance
•ASG’s QA Solution enable the user to improve the quality of applications before they are deployed across the enterprise
•ASG’s PD Solution enable the user to react swiftly to fix problems which occur in applications across the enterprise
Application Performance Management
Quality Assurance
and
Problem Determination
ASG – Mainframe Application Management New Solution Areas
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2012 GA Schedule ASG-SmartFile 8.2
ASG-TRILOG 4.8.1
ASG-ESW 7.8
ASG-TRILOG 4.9
ASG-ESW 7.9 ( January 2013 )
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• SMP/E Enablement
• Support for SMP/E Installation and Maintenance
• General
• Roll up of currently available maintenance to form a new base release
ASG – SmartFile
8.2
Target GA April 2012
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• TriTune
• WAS
• Support for IBM WebSphere Application Server V7 and V8
• General
• Roll up of currently available maintenance to form a new base release
• GA
• April-May 2012 based on Beta Testing
ASG – Trilog 4.8.1 Beta
March 2012
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• ASG-SmartTest
• Reliability/Availability/Serviceability Enhancements
• Significant reduction of SmartTest overhead when monitoring applications
• Establish SmartTest Server framework
• Preparation for future Eclipse workstation integration
• ASG-SmartTest / SmartTest TSO
• Support and display of 64-bit Storage Areas
• ASG-SmartTest Batch
• Addition of RELEASE command to explicitly disconnect from a batch test
ASG – ESW 7.8
Target GA September
2012
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• ASG-SmartTest IMS
• Ability to filter transactions by Message Content
• Asg-SmartTest CICS
• Reliability/Availability/Serviceability Enhancements
• Upgrade method of monitor invocation to a less-intrusive method
• Internal restructuring to expedite support of future releases
• Toleration support for CICS TS 5.1
• General
• Roll up of currently available maintenance to form a new base release
ASG – ESW 7.8
Target GA September
2012
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• TriTune
• Streamline Product’s Installation
• Installation Manual
• By eliminating JCL or panel figures, the number of pages in the installation manual will be reduce by more than half.
• Product Install and online dialog
• Installation process will be streamlined to install a preconfigured version (express), or allow the user to select product/options (custom).
• z/OS, CICS, and DB2 install will be kept as the basic install sequence
• Websphere, Java, etc… will be moved to a modern workload install section
ASG – Trilog 4.9
Target GA December
2012
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•TriTune
•Streamline Product’s Customization
•TUNSSPxx parameters
•Facilitate copy of current production parameters in use by cusotmer
•DB2 Customization
•Streamline DB2 parameters
•Remove the requirement to provide a DB2 load library for each active DB2 version.
•Reinstate DB2 IVP for product verification
•Remove the need to customize each DB2 subsystem. Customization of a single set of DB2 definitions to be dynamically installed in each DB2 subsystem at startup or when TriTune requests its first DB2 measurement.
•CICS customization
•Customization of a single set of CICS definitions to be dynamically installed in each CICS region at CICS startup or, if possible, when TriTune requests its first CICS measurement.
ASG – Trilog 4.9
Target GA December
2012
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• TriTune
• Source Analysis Support
• Registration
• Source code written in COBOL, PL/I and High-Level Assembler will be registered in an AKR
• Source code already analyzed and stored in an AKR can be shared between SmartTest, SmartScope and TriTune.
• Product Integration
• TriTune will utilize SmartTeam Common Services to improve reliability, availability, and servicability
ASG – Trilog 4.9
Target GA December
2012
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• TriTune
• CICS Operational and/or Internal Improvements
• To report on CICS transaction statistics, TriTune will activate and deactivate the necessary CICS settings while CICS is running.
• Eliminate CICS release dependencies in TriTune CICS logic
• DB2 Operational and/or Internal Improvements
• Cleanup, consolidate, and simplify the DB2 data analysis processing.
• Dynamically control the level of monitoring of a DB2 connected address space in order to collect DB2 data in a useful and more efficient manner.
• For large DB2 data sets collected, reduce the amount of time to sort, summarize and present DB2 performance metrics.
ASG – Trilog 4.9
Target GA December
2012
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• TriTune
• TriTune ISPF User Interface
• Access and Sign-in
• Allow TriTune to be invoke from the ESW Main menu
• Main Menu
• Offer a Quick Access Menu which contains the top 20% most used application programmer ISPF features.
• Monitor
• Add a DB2 monitor option settings to the “create monitor definition panel”.
• Reqistration
• Redo registration to map more closely to ESW Program Analyze.
• Support System level/Group level/Private level AKRs.
ASG – Trilog 4.9
Target GA December
2012
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• APC ( UNDER REVIEW )
• Data
• Access
• Streamline (replace) TUNBATCH method of data collection
• Availability
• Review and collect additional pertinent performance information
• Alerts
• Review current alerts available – add additional alerts
• Document alerts and order of alerting
• Improve recognition of which user alert was triggered
• Data Mining
• Review and Improve process
ASG – Trilog 4.9
Target GA December
2012
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• SMP/E Enablement
• Support for SMP/E Installation and Maintenance
• General
• Roll up of currently available maintenance to form a new base release
ASG – ESW 7.9
Target GA January
2013
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• APC/PD ( UNDER REVIEW )
• Enterprise Application Performance Analysis
• Determine product(s) to build interfaces between Mainframe and Distributed performance data
ASG – Trilog 2012-2013 TBD
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• Quick Installation
• Provide an optional Quick Installation process which will make installations for ESW/SmartTeam/TRILOG products look the same while simplifying the process
• On-Demand training
• Provide online courses for ESW/SmartTeam/TRILOG products in selectable units to allow customers access to training on demand as needed
• Interfaces
• Explore interfaces with TMON products
• Explore interface with PathPoint
• Others?
• TriTune/APC GUI
• Reviewing possible short-term solutions to GUI requirements prior to Eclipse/RDz
ASG – Trilog
Other Initiatives
Under Review
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Long-Term Strategic Direction
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• Available as ESW/Eclipse and ESW/RDz
• Client/Server web-based architecture
• Workstation integration with mainframe products: ESW, SmartTeam, TriLog and LCM
• Realignment of features and functions to meet APM solution, QA solution and PD solution goals
• Interface with Rational Developer For System Z
• Functionality will be delivered in stages which span multiple releases
• First ESW/Eclipse ESW/RDz release will focus on Application Testing – target availability Q3 2013
ESW Eclipse/RDz
for Mainframe Application
Development
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ESW Modernization
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ASG – Mainframe Application Management ESW Eclipse/RDz
ESW Mainframe Server
ESW QA
Workbench
(Plug-ins) Understand
Change
Test
Document
Measure
Problem Determination
Performance Analysis
Application Testing
Program Understanding
Source Code Management
File and Data Editing
Repository Services
Execution Monitors
ESW PD
Workbench
(Plug-ins) Explain
Measure
Debug
Analyze
Report
ESW Eclipse/RDz
for
Application Testing
ESW Eclipse/RDz
for
Fault Analysis
ESW Eclipse/RDz
for
Source Code
ESW Eclipse/RDz
for
Performance Analysis
ESW Eclipse/RDz
for
Data Editing
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