ASG-Zebb is an automated restart system that monitors jobs on single, or multiple, mainframe computers. It evaluates and logs the execution steps within jobs and provides automated restart and recovery capabilities. ASG-Zebb significantly reduces the amount of manual work required to restart or rerun jobs in Z/OS environments — increasing productivity and dramatically reducing the possibility of human error.

• Improves productivity by automating and streamlining restarts
• Prevents common data set errors and protects system-critical data sets, specifically unsurpassed handling of generation data groups (GDGs)
• Tracks error causes, including restart tracking, reload and recovery of jobs, execution statistics, and facilitates administration with report writing capabilities, such as DSN cross-referencing
• Makes operations seamless by eliminating service interruptions caused by archival or database backups
• Provides simulated views of jobs for online approval prior to rerun
• Simplifies setup through an automatic job definition table

Resources

• ASG-Zebb datasheet (PDF)

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• ASG-Zara for tape management
• ASG-JCLPREP for analyzing JCL and enforcing JCL standards and syntax
• ASG-Outbound for mainframe and open-platform file transfers