La Cics Tools Overview April 2009

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CICS “SIX” Tools Overview

Ted CaffarelliProduct Line Manager, CICS Tools

April 2009

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Agenda

I/T Business Requirements IBM Investments in CICS Tooling CICS Tools Overview Leveraging the CICS Explorer Information Resources

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Common I/T Business Demands

Improve Business Responsiveness Modernize critical/strategic mainframe platform to support SOA and Web services Develop and deploy new workloads that provide highest levels of RSA and security Renewed interest in System z leadership capabilities Respond to changing market dynamics and skills gaps

Drive I/T Optimization Reduce total cost of ownership Growing system complexity Meet demanding Service Level Agreements (SLAs)

Need for Governance and Compliance Regulatory and corporate compliance Data integrity also applies to VSAM managed data (not just DB2) Protect sensitive data outside production environment Control and audit access to protected data and system functions

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CICS Tools Investments – 2003 to 2009 Evolution

Increase “ease of management” of CICS TS Reduce time, effort, and risks associated with CICS TS V2V

Simplify management of CICS TS regions

Assist in modernization and reuse of current applications

“Exploitation and Integration” with CICS TS Increase business value of being on the latest releases of TS

Speed-up customer deployment of strategic CICS functionality

Leverage tooling to help mitigate declining skills on z

Lower “total cost of ownership” of CICS TS Provide cost affordable solutions to installed ISV tools

Offer functional equivalence

Leverage OEM providers to minimize investments

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CICS VSAM Transparency (VT) Enable VSAM to DB2 migration without changes to existing applications

CICS Interdependency Analyzer (IA) Collect active application inventory for efficient resource understanding

CICS Configuration Manager (CM) Administrating and maintaining CICS resource definitions

CICS Performance Analyzer (PA) Batch performance reporting/analysis for tuning and capacity planning

CICS VSAM Recovery (VR) Automate the recovery of lost VSAM data

IBM Session Manager (ISM) and CL/SuperSession (CL/SS) Access to multiple z/OS applications from a single terminal

CICS Batch Application Control (BAC) Manage state of file resources from a batch program

CICS OTTO (OTTO) Optimize outbound 3270 data streams to improve performance

CICS Tools – Overview9 Tools

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Tools Mapping To Common I/T Business Demands

OpportunitySolutions

Reduced TCO Business Flexibility

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Governance &

Compliance

CICS Interdependency Analyzer √ √ √ √

CICS VSAM Transparency √ √ √

CICS Configuration Manager √ √ √ √

CICS Performance Analyzer √ √ √ √

CICS VSAM Recovery √ √ √

CICS Batch Application Control √ √

IBM Session Manager √ √ √

CICS Online Transmission Time Optimizer √ √

Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS √ √

Fault Analyzer for z/OS √ √ √

Debug Tool for z/OS √ √

File Manager for z/OS √ √ √ √

Optim Move √ √ √

Workload Simulator for z/OS √ √ √ √

CICS Tools PD Tools

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Business Flexibility

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CICS Interdependency AnalyzerWhat is it? A discovery tool that identifies resource

interdependencies in your CICS systems

What’s its value? Automates detection of your CICS runtime

relationships Records data in a DB2® database and helps

you analyze the collected information for use in your daily processes.

How it enhances the management of CICS? Captures CICS application relationships:

Resources used by a transaction - Programs, Files, TSQs, TDQs plus DB2, MQ, IMS plus Web services

Identifies non-threadsafe programs Transactions with affinities and their type / lifetime API changes between CICS versions / releases Unused resources Sequencing of transactions within an application

Query facility is now a powerful Eclipse-based user interface

What are the strengths? Use CICS resources more efficiently Balance application workload for continuous

availability Improve the speed and reduce cost of application

maintenance Reduce time of problem resolution Improve CICS CPU consumption Minimize the impact of routine application

maintenance for the end user

What does it cost? $1650/VU

Why is this tool important to CICS customers? Reduce both time/resource required in understanding

active CICS application inventory for efficient maintenance and reuse. A manual and error prone process today.

Why do customers buy? Reduce both time/resource required to monitor,

document, and isolate CICS applications dependencies.

They want to employ threadsafe programming and reduce CICS CPU consumption by up to 15%

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CICS VSAM TransparencyWhat is it? CICS VSAM Transparency enables the

migration of data from VSAM to DB2 without modification to the CICS or batch VSAM application programs.

What’s its value? Lowers risk of migration and better

sharing between online, batch and distributed applications.

Improved availability (24/7) and scalability and ability to use DB2 tools for maintenance and reorganization.

How it enhances the management of CICS? Migrate VSAM files to DB2 without

changing application programs Single copy of the data CICS and batch programs access data in

DB2 under the control of CICS VT Data migrated to DB2 can be accessed

natively by new programs Existing programs enhanced using SQL Lower risk migration strategy

What are the strengths? Access a single source of production data Migrate individual VSAM files, as required Enable new applications to be fully DB2 technology-based Preserve investments in legacy applications

What does it cost? $3500/VU

Why is this tool important to CICS customers? 24x7 availability Integration with new applications based on DB2 technology,

such as online and e-business systems Running ad hoc queries Ability to perform data analysis Creating visual information, such as executive dashboards Exploitation of database maintenance tools

Why do customers buy? CICS VT enables the migration of data from VSAM files to

DB2 tables. It ensures continued access to the data in DB2, without

modification to the CICS or batch VSAM application programs.

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CICS Performance AnalyzerWhat is it? A tool to provide ongoing system

management and measurement reports on all aspects of CICS application performance

What’s its value? Reduce both time/resource required to

analyze off-line performance data (usually massive) for tuning and capacity planning purposes.

CICSPA is IBM’s strategic SMF reporter for CICS. It compliments Omegamon XE for CICS (on-line tool).

How it enhances the management of CICS? CICS Performance Analyzer for ‘Offline’

Analysis Provides ongoing system management and

measurement reports on all aspects of CICS application performance

Enables deep-dive CICS performance analysis and understanding of usage trends

Aids capacity planning and tuning Helps quickly identify and eliminate trends

leading to online performance problems

What are the strengths? Comprehensive Performance Reporting and

Analysis for CICS Including DB2, WebSphere MQ, and MVS

System Logger Extensive Tabular Reports and Extract Data

Sets Historical Database (HDB) Trending and Capacity Planning Comprehensive reporting of CICS Statistics data

What does it cost? $900/VU Why is this tool important to CICS customers? Plan capacity to reduce MIPS cost Proactively analyze performance trends to

reduce down time and increase customer satisfaction

Reduce cost of outages Reduce risk of missing service level

commitments Reduce time and cost of managing system

performance and availability

Why do customers buy? CICS customers need predictable and reliable IT

infrastructures for availability and thruput Capacity planning is critical to meet peak

performance levels required by e-business transactions

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IBM Session ManagerWhat is it? Secure and user-friendly method of

accessing multiple z/OS systems from a single 3270 terminal - SNA and TCP/IP

What’s its value? Users access the information they need

without having to know where the applications are or what system they run on, helping to reduce system- administration time, providing faster access to a variety of applications while minimizing training requirements.

How it enhances the management of CICS? Password-protected menu gives access all

applications in network Log-off procedures, security checking,

audit logging and centralized administration, operations, and monitoring

Benefits to helpdesk and operations personnel via the ‘Spy‘ function

Benefits in training staff – ‘Demo’ function Centralized user ID admin and the ability to

broadcast messages to end users Session recovery across the Sysplex

What are the strengths? High application availability Near-continuous operations Workload balancing and shared

configurations User customization

What does it cost? $2500/VU

Why is this tool important to CICS customers? ISM is a VTAM or TCP/IP session manager

that offers secure and user-friendly access to multiple z/OS systems from a single 3270 terminal or equivalent.

Why do customers buy? It gives users a single secure sign-on, and

allows controlled access to all of their applications from multiple concurrent virtual sessions using a wide range of tools and facilities.

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Governance and Risk Management

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CICS Configuration ManagerWhat is it? CICS Configuration Manager simplifies CICS

resource-definition administration and maintenance, while at the same time offering comprehensive reporting and optional change-management control facilities.

What’s its value? Simplified and controlled management of CICS

application resources. Aids systems administration, lowers costs, reduces risk of downtime due to user errors and speeds version to version migration

How it enhances the management of CICS? Create, Update, Delete, Copy, Replicate CICS

resource definitions Provides change management through the life-cycle

stages Create customized reports to identify redundant

definitions, show resource relationships and change management history

Audit, back-out and change authorization capabilities

What are the strengths? Reduce both time/resource in gaining tighter control

over CICS CSD administration and enhance compliance with change management policies.

Generate audit reports to simplify effort and costs associated with compliance

What does it cost? $900/VU

Why is this tool important to CICS customers? Accurate CICS resource definitions are essential to

maintain the high availability expected of CICS. With tens, or even hundreds, of CICS regions across the enterprise, each containing hundreds or thousands of artifacts, maintaining potentially millions of definitions can be challenging.

Why do customers buy? Reduce both time/resource in gaining tighter control

over CICS CSD administration Enhance compliance with change management

policies. Generate audit reports to simplify effort and costs

associated with compliance

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CICS VSAM RecoveryWhat is it? CICS VR recovers CICS and batch VSAM

data from physical or logical corruption

What’s its value? Helps automate recovery of damaged or

lost VSAM data sets, caused by catastrophic hardware failure, software failure, or human error

Supports CICS, batch, or combined environments

Enhances environments where availability and VSAM data integrity is vital

Delivers an ISPF panel interface and automates the construction of recovery jobs

How it enhances the management of CICS?Key features of CICS Recovery are: Change accumulation Export and Import commands Batch support including logging NOTIFY support for IBM and non-IBM

backups Supports backups created by Backup-

While-Open (BWO) Automated recovery Provides authorization management for the

panel interface Provides test-only forward recovery and

backout

What are the strengths? Helps recover from errors quickly Reduce need for offline processing Improves availability of your online CICS systems What does it cost? $1372/VU

Why is this tool important to CICS customers? CICS VR recovers CICS and batch VSAM data from

physical or logical corruption Can be integrated into a customer Resiliency Initiative Can play a major role in disaster recovery initiatives

Why do customers buy? No manual record keeping

CICS VR is notified of all necessary recovery information and stores it in a central repository

Less possibility of user errors CICS VR automatically builds an appropriate recovery job

requiring minimal user intervention Drastically save time

CICS VR uses known recovery information to quickly build an appropriate recovery

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New Integrated CICS Eco System

CICS Interdependency Analyzer

CICS Explorer(Available to CICS TS V3/4 users)

Task features (plug-ins) for

CICS Transaction Server V3/4

CICS Performance Analyzer

CICS Configuration Manager

CICS Interdependency Analyzer

Standalone… Integrated…

CICS Configuration Manager

CICS Performance Analyzer

CICS TS V3.2

What is the CICS Explorer?A new user interface to reduce the skills required to develop, deploy and manage CICS applications. The CICS Explorer will be incorporated in current and future releases of CICS Transaction Server as a strategic point of integration between the run-time and add-on tools, extensible by IBM, business partners and clients.

Powerful, intuitive, eclipse-based user interface

Runtime

Config Management

Discovery

Performance

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