Tech Talk: Five Simple Steps to a More Powerful Database Experience

Tech Talk:Five Simple Steps to a More Powerful Database Experience

Sheila Miller and Kevin Shuma

Mainframe

CA Technologies

Product Managers, CA Databases

MFT11T

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Abstract

This interactive discussion is for customers who have

recently upgraded, are currently upgrading or considering

upgrading to the most current production release. As

technology evolves, the way people work continues to

change. To make an impact, you need to think creatively and

innovate boldly. Join us to hear about five simple steps

towards a more powerful CA IDMS™ and CA Datacom®

mainframe database experience—that help to improve

performance, scalability, platform support, standards

compliance and usability.

Sheila Miller

Kevin ShumaCA Technologies

Product Managers,

CA Databases


Five Simple Steps

STEP 1: PROTECT YOUR INVESTMENT

STEP 2: MODERNIZE

STEP 3: UP YOUR PERFORMANCE GAME

STEP 4: GET MORE ROI

STEP 5: UP THE ANALYTICS QUOTIENT

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Step 1: Protect your investment with M3A service—monitor, measure, manage, alert.


CA M3A ServiceMonitor, Measure, Manage and Alert

BENEFIT

• 70% of the worlds critical data resides on the mainframe with much of it housed in traditional databases

• Growing CA IDMS & Datacom DBA skill concern as retirement is reducing available technical workforce.

• Fewer skilled employees represents a loss in the library of knowledge used to keep mission critical CA IDMS and CA Datacom systems up and running.

• CA provides a skilled remote technician to augment your current resource pool to run and maintain your environments.

• Activities include monitoring production environments, establish performance baselines to measure and track production, makes recommendations as needed around performance tuning, DB expansion and more…

• Provides a simple solution to augment and enhance customers CA IDMS & CA Datacom environments

• Flexibility—provides flexibility—various options to augment your CA IDMS & CA Datacom workforce by providing you with the resources needed to manage and maintain the mission critical systems that serve the business

• Proven experience—access to CA IDMS and CA Datacom experienced M3A technical staff and knowledge base

• Resource pool—access to a pool of resources to insure there will always be resources available to assist in a critical situation

• Remote access—a low-cost alternative to dedicated on-site resources that allows for the “partial use” of a technical resource

PAIN

SOLUTION

Augment and enhance existing resources to support your CA IDMS™ & CA Datacom® environments.


CA Datacom M3A Service

Start-up activities – Perform initial interview, inventory, performance baseline and site

report.

Daily Activities– Review current system activity, recent activity logs, recent table

activity, alert on required corrective activity and record activity.

Monthly Activities – Repeat measurement activities, update updated site report.

Quarterly Activities – Review CA Datacom maintenance availability.

Staffing – Designate primary and backup M3A technician.

Internal – Designate CA Datacom and support engineers.

External – Assign CA Datacom Partners—trained and certified by CA.

Coordination– Determine Single repository for data.

– Utilize CA Services Project Management Web site.

– Develop and support synchronized with M3A Service technicians.

Fee – Apply yearly based retainer plus T&E.

Step 2: Modernize with CA IDMS & CA Datacom Modernization Suite.


Modernization Suite—SQL and Server Options Customer Value

– SQL and server options enable modern development using today’s skills.

– Java™, Windows® and Web app dev tools access CA Datacom/CA IDMS data just like any

other relational DB.

– No rework is needed to take advantage of popular tools such as:

Business Objects, Cognos, Crystal reports, Eclipse BIRT, MS-ACCESS, MS-EXCEL, etc.

– Integrate modern apps, BI, business analytics, Web services into the app portfolio.

– FREE TRIAL: Freemium/limited usage SQL Web Connect is included in Datacom 14.0 &

IDMS 18.5.

Customer Benefits – Avoid costs.

– Improved availability to open systems platforms via server option.

– Manage mainframe data with talent you already have.

Step 3: Step up your performance game.

CA IDMS Performance Monitor CA SYSVIEW® Performance Management CA Mainframe Application Tuner


CA IDMS Performance Monitor

CA IDMS Performance Monitor provides real-time monitoring for CA IDMS– Monitor all CA IDMS systems in one LPAR—key performance measurements.– Monitor CA IDMS systems from one console.– Monitor for resource utilization, problem areas and resource contention.– Cancel “problem” tasks from CA IDMS Performance Monitor or CA SYSVIEW.

Customer Benefits– Avoid costs by detecting and correcting problem situations before they occur.– Baseline and predict future resource utilization and capacity needs.– Remotely monitor and tune CA IDMS environments.– Avoid losses due to “Production Availability.”


CA SYSVIEW® Performance Management

Customer Value– Provides real-time monitoring for your entire z/OS® environment – Ideal for customers who want to monitor a number of systems including:

z/OS system resources, Datacom/DB, IDMS/DB, CICS… and other resources

Customer Benefits – Cost avoidance by detecting and correcting problem situations before they occur– Ability to baseline resource utilization and better predict growth and capacity

needs– Improved ability for remote monitoring and tuning of CA Datacom environments

Use of CA SYSVIEW with CA IDMS requires the Performance Monitor option


CA Mainframe Application Tuner

Monitor & measure COBOL and:– CA Ideal™ for CA Datacom applications running in CA Datacom– CA IDMS ADS applications running in the CA IDMS

On demand z/OS sampling for any application

CPU execution/delay activities for program, subsystem, database and I/O

Pinpoint code and stored procedure inefficiencies to the source level

Comprehensive detail reporting for system support experts

Proactive automated measurements based historical trends or program changes

Drill-down ISPF Interface for z/OS data usable by application development, database and quality

assurance personnel which presents performance data in graphical form

Customer Benefits– Quickly measure application performance and pinpoint problems and delays.– Streamlines application life cycle management.– Enhance ability to maintain & manage business critical legacy application code.


Step 4: Get more ROI with CA IDMS /Datacom Presspack.


CA Datacom and CA IDMS Presspack

Customer Value– Data compression can result in significant savings in disk space requirements

which translates into dollar savings in monthly rentals, maintenance, floor space and channel costs.

– Help reduce backup/archival processing and improve data security.– Compression efficiency makes it an ideal tool for compressing large-volume

databases.


CA Datacom and CA IDMS Presspack

Customer Benefits – Access new ONLINE COMPRESS capability (CA Datacom only).– Fully zIIP-able means our compression utilizes the extremely efficient, low-cost

zIIP engines to compression and decompression processing. – Reduce DASD footprint by 30-70 percent—save real dollars.– Improve memory use within the database do all region.– Benchmark tests have shown that converting an uncompressed Datacom table

to compression saves enough physical IO CPU to offset CPU used to do compression—but the CPU is now zIIP which is significantly cheaper.


Step 5: Up the analytics quotient with vStorm connect data streaming for big data.


vStorm Connect Data Streaming for Big Data Customer Value:

– Customers need to “share” existing critical business data for data analytics platforms.

– Cooperative processing model with Veristorm allows CA IDMS data can be uplifted as needed to the various big data platforms.

Customer Benefits– Cost avoidance:

By allowing existing reliable systems to continue doing their work you save money.

Using big data platforms to store large amounts of data (cheaply) for consumption by analytics engines

you reduce costs.

– New analytics possible using key big data concepts such as: Point-in-time data allows a customer to see data content at some point in the past.

Fraud analysis is available.

Business compliance analysis is available.


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