Optimized Operations Management

Maximize Your Batch Window

ASG Operations Management solutions streamline challenging tasks to improve business reliability and to optimize IT resources. Further, ASG products automate actions and repetitive tasks to cut costs and reduce outages caused by manual errors. ASG products also enforce standards and automate conversions, resulting from mergers or other mass consolidations. ASG products used to optimize IT resources include the following:

ASG-JCLPREP for comprehensive JCL management

• Automates JCL changes, standards enforcement, conversion, and tuning
• Improves the quality of JCL and reduces downtime by eliminating errors
• Increases the productivity of applications programming, production control, operations, systems programming, quality assurance, and other JCL users

ASG-Zara for online automated tape management

• Automated MVS tape management to monitor, manage, and record tape processing while providing online, real-time access to all tape management data
• Identifies and tracks the location and status of every volume in your library - including transient and off-site tapes through online displays and hard copy reports
• Protects important tapes and data from untimely expiration or costly overwrites
• Provides sophisticated audit and recovery as well as comprehensive vault management

ASG-Workload Mapper for Workload Understanding and Efficiency

• Provides in-depth impact analysis capabilities for source Job Control Language (JCL) and scheduling systems
• Organizes information that is automatically updated as changes are made
• Presents information in several formats, including lists and graphical models
• Provides extensive cross-reference capabilities, customizable by users

ASG-Outbound for managed file transfer

• Allows fast and efficient bi-directional data transfer between disparate platforms
• Initiates transfers from a scheduler or an application program according to prearranged schedules or as data becomes available, optionally compresses data (providing up to 90% size reductions)
• Provides checkpoint/restart capability to rescue data transfers from point-of-failure
• Secures file transfers with an interface to external security products, such as RACF
• Provides issue commands from one platform to another — to manipulate files and directories