Benefits by Functional Area
| IT/Data Center Management |
- Reduces software license costs.
- Reduces relianace on scarce assembler skills.
- Improves ROI by increasing throughput & deferring upgrades.
- Improves Service Levels.
- Standardizes Platfrom Administration & Operational Controls
- Assist migrations eg dynamic JCL changes.
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| Operations Management/ Service Delivery Management |
- Online Administration of Operational Controls.
- Makes modification easier and quicker - dynamic changes, no IPLs
- Increases granularity and therefore control - control at individual user or program level.
- Improves customization of environment - e.g. different profiles for online and batch.
- Controls for extending CPU, Sysout, wait time, Job Class, etc.
- Standardizes platforms e.g. Use of Exits and Naming Standards.
- Assist migrations e.g. Dynamic JCL changes.
- Manages SLAs - e.g. Production jobs have highest priority for Recalls for DFSMShsm.
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| Technical Services Management |
- Elimination of Exits and z/OS Migration issues.
- Improves utilization of processor main storage.
- Greatly improves administration of exits.
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| Storage Management |
- Significantly reduces resource utilization
- Reduces ML1 storage pool
- Displaces ISVs
- Account codes held in catalogue for chargeback.
- Allows sharing of tape drives.
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| Capacity Planning & Performance Management |
- Improves naming standards.
- Automatic dumping of SMF datasets.
- Workload configuration at LPAR level in Sysplex
- Account codes held in catalogue for chargeback.
- Reduces resource utilization for storage management.
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| Security Management |
- Increases granularity on control of security.
- RACF changes are dynamic.
- Enhanced RACF password content.
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| Exit Management |
- Greatly improves administration of exits.
- Reports the status of all exits and the options selected for SMF, JES2, JES3, ISPF, TSO, DFHSM allocation, RACF.
- All controls through ISPF
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