Best Mainframe Management Software

What is Mainframe Management?

Mainframe Management refers to the processes and tools used to oversee the operations of mainframe computers (typically Z Series or “legacy” systems).

Mainframe Management includes monitoring and reporting on mainframe configuration, results of data protection instances, including backup software, storage systems and the inventory of those resources. The benefits of outstanding Mainframe Management saves money by aligning budget and resources to optimize performance.

Mainframes continue to be popular in certain industries, such as finance and government. In their main use cases, competing distributed system alternatives cannot typically match their performance, reliability, throughput, and security. As a result, though their “retirement” has been predicted for decades, they continue to thrive in many organizations. Where they endure, mainframes need rigorous management.

PeerSpot’s IT specialists expect Mainframe Management to be agile and easy to use and configure. Mainframe specialists aspire to provide their internal and external customers with a seamless, transparent experience and the ability for continuous fine tuning of mainframe components. In the application world, it is important to be able to manage the evolving needs of intricate, underlying structures with well-informed support.

Mainframe Management can automate mainframe systems and speed up delivery of services. Technology targets problem resolution and tracks analytics, enabling better development and delivery, enhancing collaboration across platforms and identifying continuous improvement for different platforms, from mainframe to mobile.

PeerSpot key opinion leaders use certain criteria to assess the best Mainframe Management options, including optimal customer experience, agile complex infrastructure to manage applications within the mainframe and support of new revenue stream. IT professionals are provided with more efficient access to mainframe data for application developers, big data analytics departments, and system developers.

A successful Mainframe Management system would base its ROI on maximizing already existing resources, while integrating business services and being able to instantly act on critical insights, perhaps by reallocating mainframe assets towards strategic initiatives when instances are identified. Being able to immediately take action and fix a problem brings peace of mind and a better, overall business service budget.

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IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON

IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON Performance Management Suite for z/OS is designed to provide real-time and historical performance and availability management. It offers these capabilities for IBM z/OS operating system, networks, storage subsystems, Java runtimes, IBM DB2, IBM CICS, IBM IMS, IBM MQ for z/OS and IBM WebSphere Application Server for z/OS in a single package. Optimize the efficiency and effectiveness of managing z/OS environments with a powerful, integrated tool set. OMEGAMON Performance Management Suite for z/OS is available as part of IBM Service Management Suite for z/OS. IBM Service Management Suite for z/OS includes IBM Service Management Unite—a service management dashboard that brings mainframe management information and tasks from disparate sources into a single environment.

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BMC MainView

To keep your business running smoothly, you need mainframe management that does more than just monitor and display. BMC MainView gives you the power to diagnose problems, minimize risk, and cut costs. Lower costs with more efficient monitoring. Find and fix problems early to prevent costly outages and slowdowns. Improve availability and productivity by automating and simplifying performance tasks. Streamline application performance tuning using BMC's seamless integration with Compuware Strobe.

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ASG TMON

The ASG-TMON family of products offer a range of software products for the IBM z Systems platform. Power your critical business applications across the z/OS and z/VSE enterprise with ASG-TMON providing comprehensive products that monitor and manage the health, availability and performance of your system and subsystem resources. Each Performance Management module provides affordable, pragmatic options for ensuring that your business’s application investments continue to return value. Innovative integration between tools facilitates greater efficiencies for improving Mean Time To Resolution, MTTR. (https://www.asg.com/en/Products/Performance-Management.aspx)

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Rocket Software Mainframe

With solutions focused on data management, performance optimization, catalog and system management, disaster recovery, storage management and security, the largest companies in the world rely on Rocket mainframe solutions to support their payroll processing, timely healthcare diagnoses, banking transactions, mutual fund deposits, flight reservations, billing transactions and more.

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SYSVIEW Performance Intelligence

CA SYSVIEW Performance Management offers new levels of visibility into critical business transactions that provide 24x7 monitoring for complex application environments. This real-time visibility is a critical asset to simplify mainframe performance management by monitoring against alerts, drilling down for intuitive problem identification, and basing automation on performance intelligence. Instead of using different tools, processes and people to support each environment, now there's an enterprise-wide solution that monitors the real-time performance of mainframe subsystems, providing additional integrated data.

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OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence

z/OS, its subsystems, databases, middleware, applications, and software generate thousands of event messages daily. IT professionals need a tool to filter, prioritize, and respond quickly to these events before they impact availability and threaten business processing and associated service level agreements. CA OPS/MVS EMA automates processes, enabling you to resolve problems as they arise. It also automates more routine tasks, simplifying IT management and operations.

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Model9

A Single Complete Solution Backup, restore, archive and recall all z/OS data sets and volume types, including UNIX files, space management, encryption, reporting and bare-metal recovery in one solution. Modern Architecture All functions are offloaded to zIIPs, utilize the latest zEDC and CryptoExpress speciality cards, and transfer data over OSA cards, while using trusted standard DFDSS data mover capabilities. Flexible Storage Choices Eliminate tape and virtual tape architecture dependencies on proprietary hardware and networking by storing backups and archives directly on modern storage systems, including object storage on-premise and in the cloud, NAS and SAN. No lock-in Data is stored using standard DFDSS dump format and can be recovered with standard mainframe tools on any mainframe system, anywhere. Cloud native Leverage the scale, reliability and cost-effectiveness of object storage for your mainframe data. Backup and archive directly to private or public cloud storage solutions or use cloud storage as a low-cost storage tier for long term data retention. Secure Your data is always protected with mainframe-controlled, end-to-end encryption. All user management, authentication and authorizations are verified against your trusted mainframe security software (e.g., RACF, TSS, ACF2). Regulatory compliance and recovery assurance Assure you can recover data wherever and whenever you need it, via automatic recovery test functionality, and comply with backup test regulations. Better understand and plan your storage requirements with backup analytics and graphical reports sent right to your mailbox. Quickly detect errors with real-time alerts and an easy-to-use user interface. Easy to Use Designed for the next generation of mainframe administrators, the solution can be up and running in one day, seamlessly integrating with existing SMS backup and space management policies. Manage and monitor operations with an intuitive web user interface. Quickly find and restore data sets with Google-like search functionality. Run operations from a range of APIs or by using existing schedulers using JCL.

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BMC Automated Mainframe Intelligence

BMC helps customers run and reinvent their businesses with open, scalable, and modular solutions to complex IT problems. With unmatched experience in IT management, we support 92 of the Forbes Global 100 and have earned recognition as an ITSM Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader for five years running. Our solutions offer speed, agility, and efficiency to tackle business challenges in service management, automation, operations, and the mainframe.

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Mainframe Operational Intelligence

The next gen of the machine age is upon us. Everything is getting smarter. Data analytics are part of our everyday shopping experience. Netflix learns our preferences and makes real-time suggestions. Cars are on the cusp of driving themselves. In short—machine learning is the next big thing, and Broadcom is bringing it to the mainframe with embedded operational intelligence to help you deliver outstanding customer experiences, improve efficiency and drive down overall IT costs.

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IntelliMagic Vision for zOS

IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS unlocks the full potential of SMF and RMF infrastructure measurement data to enhance availability and performance across the z/OS infrastructure, including Systems, CICS, Db2, MQ, Network, WebSphere, Disk & Replication, and Virtual Tape. IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS provides great visibility and proactive intelligence for your z/OS infrastructure to help prevent outages, resolve availability and performance issues, optimize your infrastructure, and elevate the effectiveness of your staff. Prevent potential risks to availability and performance with built-in artificial intelligence automatically assessing more than 700 key z/OS metrics and using thresholds derived from built-in expert domain knowledge.

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Precisely MFX

Leading the way with a sort, copy and join utility that uses cutting-edge mainframe technology to slash CPU costs and increase your mainframe’s overall efficiency.

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athene ES1

athene ES/1 provides analysis of current and recent system performance activity, It identifies problems as they are reported and uses expert system techniques to recommend what courses of action are required to restore service levels. Severity level reporting and tuning hints enable attention to be focused where it is needed. Detailed drill down facilities are available to analyze problems, plot trends and report on the most important metrics of all z/OS subsystems. athene ES/1 provides a fully automated performance reporting system, requiring no user management or specific technical expertise to operate. Information is delivered as required - on the mainframe, workstation or browser. The power of athene lies in its ease of use and ability to present complex data as relevant, graphical, and up to date reports - for performance analysis, reporting and "what if" models for capacity planning. It provides a rapid, consistent, and confident means of predicting how systems will perform in a variety of changing business conditions. Use athene ES/1 to tune your z/OS system for optimum performance today and plan future capacity requirements based on accurate, objectively acquired data.

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CA Librarian

CA Librarian provides advanced, general-purpose library management services for mainframe environments. Its Change Control Facility (CCF) offers automated control features and procedures for manipulation of these libraries. It uses self-reorganizing, highly compressed file formats for efficient use of online storage and enables both parallel and concurrent development. CA Librarian offers change management to enable you to manage software modules on and across multiple mainframe platforms. It also provides a collection of service facilities to help simplify application management. This change management solution has powerful capabilities that offer: Reporting, performance monitoring, security, archiving and recovery to manage applications Comprehensive tracking and control for source code development

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CA Mainframe Resource Intelligence

Digital enterprises are made not born. In this journey, business and IT leaders in mainframe organizations are looking to optimize their core infrastructure and transform—at the same time. Daunting? Perhaps. Achievable? Yes. CA Mainframe Resource Intelligence is an assessment tool revealing the as-is state vs. desired outcomes for opex, security, process and performance.

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Tone Mainframe Management

Tone Software delivers strategic Mainframe Management software solutions that directly benefit IT management and support teams, and provide significant productivity and cost savings benefits to their overall organizations.

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BMC Mainframe MLC Cost Management

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ASG-Zebb

ASG-Zebb handles reruns automatically with precision and accuracy, all without changes or modifications to Job Control Language (JCL). ASG is proud to offer the generational restart functionality as a main feature of ASG-Zebb. This industry exclusive capability allows accurate reruns of previous jobs regardless of whether or not that job occurred several days, or several cycles, ago. By eliminating manual intervention, ASG-Zebb ensures that jobs will use correct datasets and will be completed virtually error free. ASG-Zebb automatically recognizes when an abended job is being rerun. It provides the user with precise information and then efficiently determines the most logical restart point – usually at the point of failure. In addition, ASG-Zebb works seamlessly with other job scheduling tools, such as ASG-Zeke, to restart jobs.

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Dynamic Capacity Intelligence

Capacity management that empowers IT to better manage service level agreements through automated dynamic capacity optimization.

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CA Database Administration Suite for z/OS

CA Database Administration Suite for Db2® for z/OS® automates routine administrative tasks while keeping complete control of the database environment in your hands. It helps reduce costs, simplifies Db2® Object Schema and data management and helps provide for the integrity of your Db2® environments. This solution increases database availability through automation, and helps you to easily perform complex database administration tasks.

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zWorkload Reporter

With strategic Mainframe optimization, you can eliminate the compromise between performance and cost. Optimize your resource utilization and effectively manage your workload costs with zGuard. This powerful Mainframe solution extracts WLM, LPAR, processor, and other topology data from all LPARs every minute, encrypts it, and sends it to a central server for a comprehensive overview. zGuard is an industry-leading product that offers exceptional capabilities in the z/OS domain, specifically in terms of resource optimization, cost management, and mainframe capping.

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