Two SDS Tools Reduce the Cost of z/OS Operations: z/OS Runs More Efficiently, More Reliably

For Release at SHARE, 7 August 2011

more info: SHARE booth 201, 763-571-9000, sales@sdsusa.com.

Spring Lake Park, Minnesota, USA - 7 August 2011 - VitalSigns for Network Automation and Control (VNAC) and VitalSigns for IP (VIP) can automate and monitor an entire z/OS infrastructure for substantially less than the cost of the legacy programs they replace.

VitalSigns provides a full-spectrum tool set for automating, monitoring, and troubleshooting applications, sessions, and networks--on SNA and TCP/IP. VitalSigns delivers the most-used functions of NetView® and NetMaster® with easier use, higher performance, and lower cost.

For automation, any z/OS console message can be incorporated into VitalSigns alerts. In response to specified messages, VitalSigns can invoke console commands and REXX scripts.

The summer's new VNAC 2.0 includes "Session Awareness," i.e. monitoring of SNA sessions. From one VitalSigns window, you can filter and consolidate system logs from all your LPARs into a single, searchable view. That's going to dramatically decrease the time it takes to diagnose problems.

This month's release of VIP 7.2 continues to improve the efficiency of the best IP monitor in the mainframe market. The Multitrace tool performs simultaneous IP packet traces on multiple systems and TCPIP stacks, making it significantly easier to diagnose problems in a sysplex.

VIP reports performance history to the z/OS system management facility (SMF), making it easy to integrate VIP data with other reporting processes.

Ease-of-use and CPU efficiency make VitalSigns the ideal replacement for old, inefficient z/OS management software.

VitalSigns empowers organizations to proactively resolve network problems, automate network management, and ensure that service-level goals are met.

SDS, the developer of VitalSigns products, was founded in 1982 and provides a wide range of z/OS software for network performance monitoring, data security and compression, and client-server applications. Headquartered near Minneapolis, MN, SDS has 1,000 licensed customers in the U.S. and 37 other countries.

For more information, a free white paper, or a live demonstration by webcast, see www.sdsusa.com/vnac, call 800.443.6183, or write to sales@sdsusa.com.