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BMC Software, Inc. is a worldwide developer and vendor of Cooperative Enterprise Management Solutions that improve the management of business-critical applications and data, as well as optimize the performance of that critical data in complex computing environments. BMC Software also partners with leading vendors throughout the computer industry to provide its customers with integrated enterprise-wide data, system, application and network management solutions.
BMC Software has a 17-year history of industry-leading product development for large scale computing environments. It is leveraging this knowledge and strength in the management and movement of data to introduce new solutions for total enterprise-wide computing. BMC Software is headquartered in Houston, Texas, and currently offers more than 150 products.
- 3270 SUPEROPTIMIZER/CICS
BMC Software's 3270 SUPEROPTIMIZER products give maximum optimization of both inbound and outbound data streams. 3270 data streams are reduced up to 90% for CICS applications.
Support : MVS/VSE
Product type : MVS/VSE - 3270 - CICS - Optimizer
- 3270 SUPEROPTIMIZER/VM
BMC Software's 3270 SUPEROPTIMIZER/VM product gives maximum optimization of both inbound and outbound data streams. 3270 data streams are reduced up to 85% for VM applications.
Support : VM
Product type : VM - 3270 - Optimizer
- Access for DB2
By providing the ability to edit relationally-intact data in DB2 databases, Access for DB2* provides the means to inspect and edit related data from multiple DB2 tables simultaneously on the same screen. With Access for DB2*, you can dynamically "join" to related tables and views, synchronously scroll related data, and edit the data displayed
Support : MVS
Product type : MVS - DB2 - Database Editor
- ACTIVITY MONITOR
The ACTIVITY MONITOR product is the only performance monitor that automatically and transparently triggers dynamic DB2 tuning to avoid problems. It delivers performance data quickly and at whatever level of detail needed, all with low overhead.
Support : MVS
Product type : MVS - DB2 - Monitor
- ALTER for DB2
The ALTER product speeds and eases the DB2 structure modification and migration process across single subsystems by automating the time-consuming and error-prone process of making database changes. Integrity is ensured and availability is increased with ALTER.
Support : MVS
Product type : MVS - DB2 - Database Editor
- APPLICATION RESTART CONTROL
The APPLICATION RESTART CONTROL (AR/CTL) products for DB2, IMS and VSAM improve batch window utilization by more efficiently restarting jobs and backing out changes after a failure.
Support : MVS
Product type : MVS - DB2/IMS/VSAM - Batch backout and restart
- APPTUNE
The APPTUNE product from BMC Software provides the most accurate information on SQL statement performance characteristics, while minimizing the resources consumed in gathering information. By enabling SQL tuning without consuming excessive overhead, APPTUNE improves both system and application performance. It provides extensive flexibility in viewing data and is easy to learn and use.
Support : MVS
Product type : MVS - DB2 - SQL tuning
- BACKUP and VERIFICATION for VSE
The BACKUP and VERIFICATION for VSE product backs up DL/I databases and verifies pointers concurrently with the image copy process. The product also provides a significantly faster stand-alone pointer verification, restores databases from an image copy, dumps database blocks and zaps blocks to correct errors.
Support : VSE
Product type : VSE - IMS - Backup Utilities
- BASICS/DB
Designed for smaller databases, the Basics/DB set of reorganization tools delivers the speed required to increase IMS availability, improve performance, meet service level agreements and save CPU resources -- all within the realities of IS budget limitations.
Support : MVS
Product type : MVS - IMS - Reorganization tools
- BATCH CONTROL FACILITY
By automating the batch backout and log closure processes, BATCH CONTROL FACILITY (BCF) eliminates error-prone and time-consuming manual backout for IMS batch applications.
Support : MVS
Product type : MVS - batch - automation - batch backout and log closure processes
- CATALOG MANAGER
The CATALOG MANAGER product provides an automated solution to locate information in the DB2 catalog so action can be taken immediately. CATALOG MANAGER gives fast, interactive access to critical DB2 information — even for those unfamiliar with the DB2 catalog or SQL. Experienced DBAs like the ability to use a single tool to perform a multitude of functions.
Support : MVS
Product type : MVS - DB2 - Catalog Manager
- CHANGE ACCUMULATION PLUS
The CHANGE ACCUMULATION PLUS product from BMC Software is the fastest and most efficient utility available for performing change accumulation. Through the use of parallel tasking for the majority of tasks, run times are up to five times faster and CPU savings are up to 30% compared to the IMS utility.
Support : MVS
Product type : MVS - IMS - Change accumulation
- CHANGE MANAGER
The CHANGE MANAGER product automates data structure changes, migration and versioning -- within one subsystem, across multiple DB2 subsystems or between DB2 and CASE tools. With CHANGE MANAGER, even the most complex DB2 changes are simplified. Its robust features support all stages of DB2 usage and ensure availability, integrity and control.
Support : MVS
Product type : MVS - DB2 - Data structure management
- CHECK PLUS
The fastest, easiest way to ensure the validity of DB2 data is with the CHECK PLUS product. It checks for application-managed referential integrity (RI), system-managed RI and structural integrity. With it, routine checking can be integrated into management plans. CHECK PLUS runs up to five times faster than the IBM DB2 Check Data utility and uses up to 80% less CPU and up to 98% fewer EXCPs.
Support : MVS
Product type : MVS - DB2 - Data validity check
- CM/PILOT
The CM/PILOT product provides an exclusive set of add-on features that enhance the productivity of CHANGE MANAGER. It reduces many repetitive decisions to one decision, significantly reducing the chance for human error.
Support : MVS
Product type : MVS - DB2 - Data structure management
- Compare for DB2
Compare for DB2 provides the ability to compare related sets of data from two versions of a DB2 database. This is done by comparing an image of a database before an application is executed to the image created after the application is executed. Compare for DB2 highlights the differences.
Support : MVS
Product type : MVS - DB2 - Database comparison
- CONCURRENT REORG for DB2
Allows online database reorganizations with near continuous availability for applications and users.
Allows database updates during reorganizations.
Provides fastest DB2 reorganization utility available today.
Provides online reorganization capability with DB2 versions 3.1, 4.1 and 5.
Support : MVS
Product type : MVS - DB2 - Reorganization
- CONCURRENT REORG for IMS
The CONCURRENT REORG solution occurs when BMC Software's CHANGE RECORDING FACILITY technology and IMAGE COPY PLUS product are combined with four BMC Software IMS/DB Extended Performance Utilities: UNLOAD PLUS/EP, LOADPLUS/EP, SECONDARY INDEX UTILITY/EP and FAST REORG FACILITY/EP. The resulting product performs the fastest possible reorganization while maintaining data update capability for users. This dramatic speed increase allows for more frequent reorganizations, optimizes database performance and increases user productivity.
Support : MVS
Product type : MVS - IMS - Reorganization
- COPY PLUS
The COPY PLUS product runs up to four times faster than the DB2 V4.1 copy or the concurrent copy utilities. The integrity checking of COPY PLUS ensures valid copies for recovery purposes. And with its speed, more frequent image copies can be taken, requiring fewer logs to be recovered, further speeding the recovery.
Support : MVS
Product type : MVS - DB2 - Copy utilities
- DASD MANAGER PLUS
The DASD MANAGER PLUS product pinpoints and automates optimal DB2 maintenance. Reporting capabilities provide statistics needed for space utilization management, including data necessary for I/O related performance optimization.
Support : MVS
Product type : MVS - DB2 - space utilization management/performance optimization
- DATA ACCELERATOR
The DATA ACCELERATOR product provides advanced techniques to reduce the physical storage requirements of VSAM and non-VSAM data sets while ensuring data integrity. It reduces requirements for VSAM clusters 30% to 70% and 60% to 90% for MVS-based sequential and partitioned data sets.
Support : MVS
Product type : MVS - VSAM/non-VSAM files - space utilization management/performance optimization
- DATA PACKER for DB2
The DATA PACKER product reduces DASD requirements for DB2 tables an average of 30% to 80%. Data availability is significantly increased because the product eliminates the need to drop tables to add compression, or to add columns to a table with a BMC EDITPROC defined.
Support : MVS
Product type : MVS - DB2 - Data packer
- DATA PACKER/IMS
The DATA PACKER/IMS product reduces DASD requirements for DL/I databases and DEDBs by 30% to 80%. Database reorganizations and image copy run times are reduced by 30% to 50%.
Support : MVS
Product type : MVS - IMS - Data packer
- DATABASE INTEGRITY PLUS
The DATABASE INTEGRITY PLUS product prevents both online and batch programs from using the wrong control block and avoids a situation that almost always requires a recovery. It provides significant productivity enhancements for the DBAs and programmers who manage control blocks, definitions and the libraries that contain them.
Support : MVS
Product type : MVS - IMS - Integrity control
- Database Verifier
BMC Software's Database Verifier product couples fast, offline consistency checking for Sybase databases with BMC Software's SQL-BackTrack backup and recovery process. It speeds up the Sybase database consistency checker (DBCC) utility and enhances database performance. It detects errors that would keep the database from being recoverable and those that can cause consistency problems. When an error is detected, Database Verifier sends information to an error log so the DBA can verify and correct the problem. Because it runs in the background, it can quickly verify the consistency of the database without affecting database performance time and adds less than 5 percent of elapsed time to a SQL-BackTrack backup.
Support : MVS
Product type : MVS - Sybase - Database Verifier
- DataReach
DataReach is a high availability solution providing a unique way for extracting mainframe MVS/ESA DB2 data and loading it into an Informix, Oracle or Sybase database. DataReach, while processing on a Unix server, reads MVS DB2 data directly from an EMC Symmetrix storage, completely eliminating mainframe and network overhead. The data transfers occur at channel speeds versus network speeds. DataReach converts DB2 data to the appropriate target format for input to a database load utility. This product can be used to provide data warehouses with faster and more frequent access to mainframe-based data, resulting in more timely business decisions.
Support : MVS + Unix + EMC Symmetrix
Product type : MVS - DB2 - Transfer DB2 databases to Unix (Informix, Oracle or Sybase) using EMC Symmetrix
- DELTA IMS (for IMS DBCTL, IMS DC, IMS DB/DC, IMS VIRTUAL TERMINAL
The DELTA IMS products allow organizations to define IMS system components, expand user access and increase the size of the network without interrupting work flow and without running a system generation (IMSGEN). The four integrated products can be used together to manage the complete IMS environment through a single user interface. Alternatively, the products can be used on an individual basis to provide the flexibility needed to manage a specific IMS database environment.
Support : MVS
Product type : MVS - IMS - IMS environment management
- EXCEPTOR
The EXCEPTOR product is the one solution that automatically and dynamically detects and corrects DB2 problems before business processes are affected. EXCEPTOR quickly identifies and resolves those problems that have traditionally gone undetected until end users began to call the help desk. The proactive capabilities of EXCEPTOR improve overall DB2 performance and availability.
Support : MVS
Product type : MVS - DB2 - Problem detection
- EXTENDED BUFFER MANAGER for CICS with SNAPSHOT VSAM COPY
The EXTENDED BUFFER MANAGER (XBM) for CICS with SNAPSHOT VSAM COPY product is a high-speed data caching utility that significantly reduces the number of physical I/Os, thus allowing up to 200 times faster access to CICS/VSAM data sets. Benefits include improved processing performance as well as improved response time and data availability to users. The architecture of XBM enables a single cache to share data, even across multiple applications. XBM delivers the best performance improvements by caching data that is repeatedly accessed. For unmatched database availability, XBM incorporates a Snapshot VSAM Copy feature that enables the creation of point-in-time copies of VSAM files while updates continue.
Support : MVS
Product type : MVS - CICS - CICS/VSAM data caching
- EXTENDED BUFFER MANAGER for DB2
The EXTENDED BUFFER MANAGER (XBM) product eliminates I/Os by dynamically moving DB2 data in and out of cache. XBM uses an exclusive high-speed caching technique that gives DB2 up to 200 times faster access to data. Maximum effective use of storage is ensured through a combination of least recently used (LRU) algorithms, compression techniques while the data is in cache, and by setting caching priority for each data set. XBM provides extensive statistical data to help the administrator determine which objects can benefit most from caching and when.
Support : MVS
Product type : MVS - DB2 - DB2 data caching
- EXTENDED BUFFER MANAGER for IMS
The EXTENDED BUFFER MANAGER (XBM) product is a high-speed data caching utility that significantly reduces the number of physical I/Os, thus allowing faster access to IMS databases. Benefits include improved processing performance as well as improved response time and data availability to users. The architecture of XBM enables a single cache to share data, even across multiple IMS subsystems. XBM delivers the best performance improvements by caching data that is repeatedly accessed. For unmatched database availability, XBM incorporates a Snapshot Copy feature for users of BMC Software's IMAGE COPY PLUS product. Snapshot Copy processing uses an interface to XBM that lets the user create batch image copies of a database or a group of databases to the same point of consistency while updates are in progress.
Support : MVS
Product type : MVS - IMS - IMS data caching
- EXTENDED TERMINAL ASSIST
The EXTENDED TERMINAL ASSIST (ETA) product maximizes the value of IBM's Extended Terminal Option (ETO), improves productivity and increases IMS availability. The ETA product eliminates the need to code and maintain user exits, eliminates IMS restarts for implementing changes and helps customize ETO and IMS for even the most complex environments.
Support : MVS
Product type : MVS - IMS - Extended Terminal Option (ETO)
- FAST PATH ANALYZER/EP
The FAST PATH ANALYZER/EP utility helps analyze DEDB databases up to three times faster than other similar products. It is the fastest, most efficient tool available for determining space utilization requirements and for verifying the integrity of all pointer values, free space element chains and VSAM control fields. FAST PATH ANALYZER/EP is a high-performance alternative to the batch capabilities previously available through BMC Software's TRIMAR FAST PATH ANALYZER.
Support : MVS
Product type : MVS - IMS - DB analysis
- FAST PATH REORG/EP
The FAST PATH REORG/EP product is the fastest and easiest-to-use batch reorganization product available for reclaiming space and restructuring DEDBs. It performs space reclaim on areas up to 300% faster than other products. This greatly reduces processing times, delivers unsurpassed database availability and helps in managing the shrinking maintenance window.
FAST PATH REORG/EP is a high-performance alternative to BMC Software's TRIMAR FAST PATH UNLOAD/RELOAD, providing the same features and functions.
Support : MVS
Product type : MVS - IMS - reorganization
- FAST REORG FACILITY
Reorganization is completed up to 40% faster when the three separate BMC Software IMS/DB utilities (UNLOAD PLUS, LOADPLUS and SECONDARY INDEX UTILITY) are processed together in the FAST REORG FACILITY (FRF) product. With this product, the reorganization of the entire physical database, including all its primary and secondary indexes, is executed synchronously.
Support : MVS
Product type : MVS - IMS - reorganization
- FAST REORG FACILITY/EP
The FAST REORG FACILITY/EP (FRF/EP) product speeds regular database reorganizations by concurrently running three BMC Software EP high-speed reorganization utilities: UNLOAD PLUS/EP, LOADPLUS/EP and SECONDARY INDEX UTILITY/EP. This means that in addition to the already significant time savings of the individual utilities, there is an additional 40% reduction in elapsed time.
Support : MVS
Product type : MVS - IMS - reorganization
- IMAGE COPY PLUS
The IMAGE COPY PLUS (ICP) product creates single image copies of DL/I databases and Fast Path DEDBs up to four times faster than the IMS utility. It also creates up to 10 image copies of one database in approximately the same time the IMS utility creates one image copy. By copying multiple databases simultaneously, overall elapsed time is reduced.
Support : MVS
Product type : MVS - IMS - image copy
- Import for Servers
Using the power of Move for DB2, Import for Servers provides population of client/server databases (such as Oracle, DB2 for AIX and XDB) with data that has been extracted from DB2 for MVS.
Import for Servers performs all of the data conversion and transformation as well as the creation and population of the target database.
Support : MVS
Product type : MVS - DB2 - import DB2 databases on client/server databases
- JOURNAL MANAGER PLUS
The JOURNAL MANAGER PLUS product ensures integrity before a recovery begins by already having in place all the preliminary integrity and archiving. It automatically archives CICS journals and logs and protects against overwrites. This ensures that when recovery is necessary, CICS journals are intact and ready for use.
Support : MVS
Product type : MVS - CICS - Journal files integrity
- LOAD/DB
The LOAD/DB product performs reorganization reloads of IMS databases up to 53% faster than the native IMS utilities. With the speed and reliability of LOAD/DB, data administrators can complete reorganizations of critical databases in much less time, increasing availability and bringing significant savings in time and CPU usage.
Support : MVS
Product type : MVS - IMS - LOAD utility
- LOADPLUS for DB2
The LOADPLUS product delivers the most comprehensive and effective design and implementation of the three key features of a load utility: speed, integrity and flexibility. It loads DB2 tables up to four times faster than the IBM DB2 load utility. When used with the PRELOAD phase, the tablespace outage is up to 12 times shorter.
Support : MVS
Product type : MVS - DB2 - LOAD utility
- LOADPLUS for IMS
The LOADPLUS product performs the initial load and the reorganization reload of databases up to six times faster than the IBM IMS utilities. CPU consumption and EXCPs are reduced up to 90% during the reload. Several features allow the user to tailor the reload to fit the company's unique organization needs.
Support : MVS
Product type : MVS - IMS - LOAD utility
- LOADPLUS/EP for IMS
The LOADPLUS/EP product reloads IMS databases up to 40% faster than the BMC Software LOADPLUS for IMS/DB utility, which already is up to 10 times faster than the two IMS utilities it replaces: IMS HD Reorganization Reload and IMS HD Fast Reorganization Reload.
Support : MVS
Product type : MVS - IMS - LOAD utility
- LOCAL COPY PLUS
BMC Software's LOCAL COPY PLUS enhances communication compatibility of IMS/ESA broadcast messages to printers and terminals, while providing features that simplify user access. LOCAL COPY PLUS reduces costs by eliminating the need for a 3270 printer on every control unit. LOCAL COPY PLUS also provides an easy method of sending screen images anywhere within the IMS network and lowers programming efforts for hardcopy output.
Support : MVS
Product type : MVS - IMS - broadcast messages to printers and terminals
- LOGMAX (is now PATROL DB-Log Master for DB2 for MVS)
The functionality of LOGMAX has been greatly expanded to include new BMC Software exclusive features. BMC Software brings unequaled functionality for database administration, recovery and analysis with the development of a new suite of log analysis products. PATROL DB-Log Master for DB2* for MVS is the first of several PATROL DB-Log Master named products to be released.
Support : MVS
Product type : MVS - DB2 - database administration, recovery and analysis
- Move for DB2
Move for DB2 provides the ability to extract relationally-intact data from DB2 for MVS databases by simply selecting the rows from a single table. Move for DB2 automatically and intelligently retrieves the rows you selected together with the related rows from the related tables.
Support : MVS
Product type : MVS - DB2 - Extract
- NETMAXER and NETMAXER/CICS
The NETMAXER and the NETMAXER/CICS products automatically and transparently reduce the size of Novell NetWare for SAA data streams by as much as 90%. Additional benefits include greater throughput, faster user response times and lower telecommunications and hardware costs.
Support : MVS
Product type : MVS - NetWare for SAA
- OPERTUNE for DB2
The OPERTUNE for DB2 product is a dynamic tuner which increases availability and throughput by delivering the capability to dynamically modify DB2 subsystem parameters, change space allocations, and cancel resource-intensive threads. It changes more than 80 subsystem parameters dynamically, quickly solving operational problems and ensuring accurate resource allocation. It can be invoked automatically by BMC Software's ACTIVITY MONITOR or the PATROL Knowledge Module for DB2 for OS/390 products when pre-defined conditions are met.
Support : MVS
Product type : MVS - DB2 - Tuning
- OPERTUNE for MQSeries
BMC Software's OPERTUNE for MQSeries product draws upon the success of BMC Software's OPERTUNE products for the DB2 and Unix environments. Similarly, OPERTUNE allows the MQSeries administrator to easily identify, monitor and change system parameters that affect performance without the system outage traditionally required. OPERTUNE for MQSeries delivers functionality that automates and enhances the logging process, and also monitors throughput in order to automate performance improvement. This capability is particularly useful for optimizing system performance based on changes in workload. OPERTUNE for MQSeries benefits the customer by maximizing application availability and providing troubleshooting and automation capabilities that help prevent system outages.
Support : MVS
Product type : MVS - MQSeries - Tuning
- OPERTUNE for NCP
The OPERTUNE product increases network availability by reducing network outages. Most NCP gens are eliminated by dynamically and automatically changing parameters without taking down the network. OPERTUNE also eliminates outages caused by improperly tuned resources.
Support : MVS
Product type : MVS - NCP - Tuning
- PACLOG
The PACLOG product uses a patent-pending log filtering process and BMC Software's exclusive Extended Compression Architecture (XCA) to achieve up to 95 percent reduction in the size of DB2 archive logs. This substantial archive log media savings means that more archive log data can be stored on DASD, making the data more accessible for recovery.
Support : MVS
Product type : MVS - DB2 - Log packer
- PATROL Management Suite
Nothing in the industry can compare with the PATROL Management Suite. PATROL products reduce the complexity of managing distributed systems. But it's not just what they do that makes PATROL tools the preferred choice. It's how they do it. It's their open architecture. And it's the heterogeneous environment that they cover. PATROL products reduce the complexity by adhering to two methods, management by exception and management by objective.
Support : OS/390, Unix, Windows NT, OS/2, OpenVMS
Product type : OS/390 / MVS - automation - distributed systems management
- POINTER CHECKER PLUS
Validate, analyze and repair IMS databases fast and with full data integrity using the POINTER CHECKER PLUS product. Two methods for pointer validation are provided: Full Checking executes stand-alone verification up to 10 times faster than the IMS utility; Hash Checking validates pointers during every image copy, adding less than a 5% increase in elapsed time.
Support : MVS
Product type : MVS - IMS - Database checker
- PREFIX RESOLUTION PLUS
The PREFIX RESOLUTION PLUS product is the fastest way to resolve logically related IMS databases and perform the prefix update -- up to 10 times faster than the IMS utilities. I/Os are reduced up to 90% and CPU consumption up to 50%. Additional resource savings come in work space reductions of up to 40% and less time spent in JCL changes.
Support : MVS - IMS
Product type : MVS - IMS - prefix resolution
- Q:MANAGER IMS
The Q:MANAGER IMS product increases IMS/TM availability by decreasing outages due to message queue problems. This is the industry's fastest message requeuing product, running up to 12 times faster than the IBM IMS/VS Message Requeuer.
Support : MVS - IMS
Product type : MVS - IMS - message queue management
- Q:MANAGER IMS EP
The Q:MANAGER IMS EP product prevents IMS outages caused by message queue overflows. It builds on the functionality of Q:MANAGER IMS to completely automate the IMS queue management process.
Support : MVS - IMS
Product type : MVS - IMS - message queue management
- QUICKSTART for MVS
The QUICKSTART for MVS product provides a complete application restart solution, so that abended batch applications can be automatically restarted from a checkpoint rather than having to be restarted from the beginning of the job.
Support : MVS
Product type : MVS - batch jobs - abend recovery - restart
- R+/CHANGE ACCUM
The R+/CHANGE ACCUM product is a productivity enhancement for RECOVER PLUS. It provides an alternative to frequent image copies, thereby increasing availability.
Support : MVS - DB2
Product type : MVS - DB2 - recovery
- R+/RESOURCE MAXIMIZER
The R+/RESOURCE MAXIMIZER product, an enhancement for RECOVER PLUS, offers a unique way to recover data needed for recovery of a dropped object. It translates the old object ID for the image copies and logs to the new object ID, then combines the copies and log records to recreate the object. In addition, this product utilizes recovery resources in a variety of ways.
Support : MVS - DB2
Product type : MVS - DB2 - recovery
- RECOVER PLUS for DB2
The RECOVER PLUS product recovers table spaces and index spaces two to four times faster than the DB2 V4 utility and reduces CPU time by up to 70%. RECOVER PLUS also includes operational improvements such as partial recovery keywords.
Support : MVS - DB2
Product type : MVS - DB2 - recovery
- RECOVERY MANAGER for DB2
The RECOVERY MANAGER product automates the entire recovery process for the DB2 environment, regardless of the size of table spaces, complexity of structures or frequency of backups. Supporting both local outages and remote disaster recoveries, it eliminates the manual procedures associated with determining the source of the problem, identifying which applications or DB2 objects are affected and locating a common point of consistency from which to recover. During a stressful recovery or recovery test, DBAs are provided automated procedures, JCL generation and a recovery that reduces the risk of human error and speeds the job.
Support : MVS - DB2
Product type : MVS - DB2 - recovery
- RECOVERY MANAGER for IMS
The RECOVERY MANAGER product automates and simplifies the recovery process for the IMS environment and determines what, when and how to recover. Data gets back online in the fastest, most efficient way possible. It eliminates the manual procedures associated with determining the source of the problem, identifying which applications or IMS objects are affected and locating a common point of consistency from which to recover. The product reduces recovery time by finding additional recovery points. During a stressful recovery or recovery test, DBAs are provided automated procedures, JCL generation and a recovery that reduces the risk of human error and speeds the job.
Support : MVS - IMS
Product type : MVS - IMS - recovery
- RECOVERY PLUS for IMS
The RECOVERY PLUS product recovers DL/I databases and Fast Path DEDBs up to four times faster than the IMS utility. Critical IMS data is available sooner and users are productive quicker when the recovery is the fastest possible.
Support : MVS - IMS
Product type : MVS - IMS - recovery
- RECOVERY PLUS for CICS/VSAM
The RECOVERY PLUS (RPCV) product provides a single recovery management tool for both batch and online environments. Recovery is three times faster than with IBM's IDCAMS utility, providing greatly improved availability. RECOVERY PLUS is automated, easy to use and provides total data integrity.
Support : MVS
Product type : MVS - batch/cics - VSAM recovery
- REORG PLUS for DB2
The REORG PLUS product increases DB2 data availability by performing database reorganizations up to four times faster than the IBM DB2 utility. Additionally, the REORG PLUS product significantly reduces CPU consumption. With REORG PLUS there is more efficient allocation of resources and less chance of reorganization failure.
Support : MVS - DB2
Product type : MVS - DB2 - reorg
- REORG PLUS for VSE
The REORG PLUS for VSE product is available with or without the SECONDARY INDEX FEATURE. The base product unloads and reloads DL/I databases two to six times faster than the DL/I utilities. With the SECONDARY INDEX FEATURE, it additionally re-builds secondary indexes three to four times faster than the DL/I utility.
Support : VSE - DL/I
Product type : VSE - DL/I - reorg
- SECONDARY INDEX MAINTENANCE/DB
The SECONDARY INDEX MAINTENANCE/DB (SIM/DB) product has high-speed secondary index utility functions that create and maintain IMS secondary and primary indexes up to 83% faster than the IMS utilities it replaces. The complex six-step IMS procedure is reduced to a simple, one-step process for creating a new secondary index or rebuilding an existing one.
Support : MVS - IMS
Product type : MVS - IMS - maintenance - secondary index
- SECONDARY INDEX UTILITY
The SECONDARY INDEX UTILITY product creates, maintains and rebuilds secondary and primary indexes up to eight times faster than the IMS utilities. The utility provides processing options for versatility and features that reduce the cost of creating and maintaining secondary indexes.
Support : MVS - IMS
Product type : MVS - IMS - maintenance - secondary index
- SECONDARY INDEX UTILITY/EP
The SECONDARY INDEX UTILITY/EP product is a high-speed performer -- up to 40% faster than BMC Software's SECONDARY INDEX UTILITY product for IMS. It replaces the six native IMS utilities required to build secondary indexes and builds the primary and secondary indexes in the same job step.
Support : MVS - IMS
Product type : MVS - IMS - maintenance - secondary index
- SESSION PERSIST
SESSION PERSIST reduces the time required to get users back online after an outage. Although recovery occurs in two steps following an outage — correcting the failure and reconnecting the sessions — it is the latter that can take the longest to execute and holds up the return to full availability.
Support : MVS - VTAM
Product type : MVS - VTAM - session recovery
- SmartBatch for OS/390 from IBM Corporation
Developed through a joint technology agreement between IBM and BMC Software, IBM's SmartBatch for OS/390 product integrates BMC Software's DATA ACCELERATOR and BATCH ACCELERATOR product technologies with IBM's BatchPipes, BatchPipeWorks and BatchPipePlex parallel processing software. SmartBatch enables users of MVS version 4.3 and higher to exploit parallel processing, thereby addressing the time constraints, resource constraints, and workload balancing challenges associated with batch job processing. SmartBatch can significantly reduce the elapsed time for processing batch jobs or job streams. Elapsed time is further reduced when SmartBatch is used to minimize I/O resource usage and automatically route job steps to available processors in a Parallel Sysplex.
Support : OS/390
Product type : OS/390 - reduce time for processing batch jobs or job streams
- SNAPSHOT COPY for VSAM
The SNAPSHOT COPY for VSAM product is a stand-alone component of BMC Software's EXTENDED BUFFER MANAGER (XBM) product that allows customers to better meet 24x7 application availability needs. It enables the creation of point-in-time backup copies concurrent with business-critical batch and online processing activity. SNAPSHOT COPY for VSAM minimizes the outages required to perform routine file maintenance, thereby allowing customers to shrink their batch windows to accommodate growing online requirements.
Support : MVS - VSAM
Product type : MVS - VSAM/IMS/DB2 - snapshot copies
- SNAPSHOT UPGRADE FEATURE for Parallel Sysplex Support
Improves DB2 availability in a Parallel Sysplex environment
Extends capability for non-disruptive maintenance to a DB2 data sharing environment
Exploits IBM Coupling Facility to enable online read-write access to shared data during maintenance routines
Provides extensive monitoring of Coupling Facility utilization and performance
Better enables customers to leverage benefits of CMOS processing technology
Support : MVS - VSAM
Product type : MVS - VSAM/IMS/DB2 - snapshot copies
- SQL-BackTrack for Informix
SQL-BackTrack for Informix is a comprehensive, flexible database backup and recovery product designed to simplify backup and recovery of Informix databases.
Support : MVS - Informix
Product type : MVS - Informix - database backup and recovery
- SQL-BackTrack for Oracle
SQL-BackTrack automates many database administration tasks, speeding the backup and recovery process and reducing errors. It enables a safer, more reliable and efficient backup routine.
Support : MVS - Oracle
Product type : MVS - Oracle - database backup and recovery
- SQL-BackTrack for Sybase
SQL-BackTrack automates many database administration tasks, speeding the backup and recovery process and reducing errors. It enables a safer, more reliable and efficient backup routine.
Support : MVS - Sybase
Product type : MVS - Sybase - database backup and recovery
- SQL-BackTrack OBSI Modules
The SQL-BackTrack OBSI Modules provide transparent support for sending database backups to various storage management systems and backup devices. This allows you to leverage your investment in backup hardware and standardized procedures, and permits database backups to go to tape or optical jukeboxes — for true "hands off" backup. The modules integrate the backup and recovery features of the SQL-BackTrack product with the storage management services of these systems.
Support : MVS - OBSI
Product type : MVS - OBSI - database backups
- SQL RECALL
SQL RECALL speeds the execution of complex and repetitive SQL queries against DB2 databases, increasing CPU capacity and throughput without hardware upgrades. CPU savings of up to 70% can be realized.
Support : MVS - DB2
Product type : MVS - DB2 - speed the execution of SQL queries
- TRIMAR FAST RECOVERY UTILITY
The TRIMAR FAST RECOVERY UTILITY dramatically reduces the required time for recovering all DEDBs and MSDBs. Typically, system availability is restored in less than seven minutes.
Support : MVS - IMS
Product type : MVS - IMS - reduces time for recovery
- TRIMAR RESTART CONTROL FACILITY
The TRIMAR RESTART CONTROL FACILITY product ensures the integrity of IMS Fast Path databases and critical system data sets during the restart of an IMS control region. It provides a comprehensive, automated restart mechanism for the Fast Path environment.
Support : MVS - IMS
Product type : MVS - IMS - reduces time for recovery
- ULTRAOPT/CICS
The ULTRAOPT products are the ultimate data stream optimization solutions for VTAM-based communications subsystems such as CICS, IMS, TSO, TN3270 and session managers. The products reduce the length of outbound data streams up to 95% and inbound data streams up to 90%. Demand on the network is reduced, resulting in improved response time, better network utilization and lower costs.
Support : MVS - CICS
Product type : MVS - CICS - reduce the length of data streams
- ULTRAOPT/IMS
The ULTRAOPT products are the ultimate data stream optimization solutions for VTAM-based communications subsystems such as CICS, IMS, TSO, TN3270 and session managers. The products reduce the length of outbound data streams up to 95% and inbound data streams up to 90%. Demand on the network is reduced, resulting in improved response time, better network utilization and lower costs.
Support : MVS - IMS
Product type : MVS - IMS - reduce the length of data streams
- UNLOAD/DB
The UNLOAD/DB product completes the longest part of the IMS reorganization, the unload, up to 65% faster than the three IMS utilities it replaces. UNLOAD/DB makes the unload process simple, fast and reliable.
Support : MVS - IMS
Product type : MVS - IMS - quick unload of databases
- UNLOAD PLUS for DB2
The UNLOAD PLUS product is up to seven times faster than the DSNTIAUL IBM utility and four to eight times faster than conventional SQL-based applications. It significantly reduces elapsed time, CPU cycles and EXCPs, increasing the availability of DB2 data and lowering costs for unloading data. By unloading data directly from DB2 data sets, SQL overhead is eliminated.
Support : MVS - IMS
Product type : MVS - IMS - quick unload of databases
- UNLOAD PLUS for IMS
With the UNLOAD PLUS utility, the longest part of the IMS reorganization, the unload and scan, can be completed up toseven times faster than using the IBM IMS utilities with up to 10 times less CPU and I/O. Data integrity is enhanced through several features including the abilities to verify backward pointers and rebuild broken PTF/PTB pointer chains.
Support : MVS - IMS
Product type : MVS - IMS - quick unload and scan of databases
- UNLOAD PLUS/EP for IMS
The UNLOAD PLUS/EP utility is up to 20% faster than BMC Software's UNLOAD PLUS product, which already is up to seven times faster than the IMS HD Reorganization Unload utility. UNLOAD PLUS/EP features self-tuning buffer management, which in effect optimizes its own performance without the need for manual intervention.
Support : MVS - IMS
Product type : MVS - IMS - quick unload and scan of databases

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