Dump/Abend Analysis and Debugging Tools

XRAY - XRAY is a cost effective, easy to use source level debugging tool for OS/390 and z/OS Batch programs. It enables fast effective maintenance and testing of Batch applications, improving programmer productivity and encouraging the coding of more resilient programs to vastly improve the reliability of production systems.
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 VSAM2DB2  - Fully automated conversion from VSAM to DB2 !!. The ONLY product of it's kind available on the market today !!!. Your CICS and BATCH programs continue normal processing without any modification or recompilation. No JCL modification required either. High performance is guaranteed by use of static DB2 statements and low overhead. The only tool able to fully migrate VSAM environment of individual files. All existing VSAM programs continue to believe they are accessing VSAM files while they are processing DB2 tables through our transparency engine.

BCHCF  - Batch checkpoints handling and control facility for IMS and DB2.

BUFFER POOL TOOL - DB/2 Buffer pool Analysis and Reporting. The ONLY product that can PREDICT the effect of Pool tuning changes.

BUFFER POOL TOOL FOR IMS- BUFFER POOL Tuning for IMS under OS/390. The only tool that can PREDICT the effect of pool tuning changes.

CACHE/XTender - Optimises the use of Dasd Control Unit cache memory for datasets for subsystems such as DB2, IMS/DB, IMS/DBCT, CICS, VSAM etc.

CARES For DB2  - Offers effective management of DB2 and gives a much clearer picture of what is happening in constantly growing DB2 systems by getting rid of many tedious but important availability checks so sites can focus on critical and important database issues and tasks.

CATEX - DB2 catalog explorer.

CLAMP for DB2- Quickly and Easily shows your object and Index Usage.

DASD/Xpert for DB2 - DB2 tuning tool. Locate DASD performance problems EASILY.

DB2CMF  - DB2CMF simplifies and assists database administration and modification of DB2 objects, privileges and data. 

DB2ICF - DB2ICF Controls DB2 related restart and recovery functions and assists operations and database administration with DB2.

DBICF  - DBICF simplifies and automates the use of DBRC in all IMS, CICS/DLI, IMS batch with and without data sharing environments.

DB/IQ - Improve performance and reliability with Automated Quality Assurance for SQL in DB2 environments at all stages of development. .kk

GENDB2 - GENDB2 simplifies and automates the DB2 MVS, OS/390, z/OS recovery process. This software will benefit both the DB2 DBA's and Systems Programmers. Simplifies and Automates DB2 Disaster Recovery.

SmartProduction for DB2 - SmartProduction® for DB2 is an innovative software product that will  dramatically reduce your batch window and will increase your system online time, by reducing run time and resource consumption of DB2 batch jobs and applications. SmartProduction® for DB2 identifies production Batch problems related to job flow and application resource consumption and provides solutions. SmartProduction® for DB2 can detect a wide range of production inefficiencies (over 60) which, when resolved, can dramatically reduce system resources utilization (e.g., CPU and I/O) and significantly cut job elapsed run-times.

IDMS / CICS PRODUCTS

OCA-Commit - Enables IDMS to participate in the two phase commit process from CICS. A great tool if you need 100% integrity between both databases.

OCA-DB2 - Enables CA-IDMS programs to directly access IBM DB2 databases using standard SQL requests.

OCA-EXCI - Allows IDMS programs to directly invoke CICS programs.

OCA-MQSeries - From within IDMS, programs can use MQSeries directly and communicate across platforms using standard MQSeries programming.

OCA-Syslink/DC/CICS - Take advantage of all the computing resources available, move workloads across any machine in your Sysplex.

OCA-TCP/IP - IDMS programs have the ability to access IDMS TCP/IP from MVS services from within IDMS. Application programs can share data with partners executing on any platform on your network, Intranet or the Internet. .

SYSTEMS / OPERATIONS PRODUCTS

DumpMarvel - DumpMarvel is a low cost ISPF-based dump formatter and analyser that helps you analyse an MVS program dump quickly. MVS dump analysis becomes a breeze because you can find your way around the dump more quickly, locate the storage areas you are looking for and ignore irrelevant control blocks. For new programmers, it provides a more logical and less daunting view of a program dump. For experienced programmers, it increases the amount of information that can be obtained from a complex application or system software dump.

$AVRS - Automates accumulation, viewing, archival and retrieval of JCL.

EASYXCF  - EasyXCF allows better control and administration of a parallel Sysplex environment with Data Sharing.

FASTGENER - High Speed replacement for IEBGENER. Performs 50-90% faster than IEBGENER.

HSMSCF- HSM/SMS control facility.

JCLPLUS - JCL syntax checking, standards enforcement, JCL formatting and maintenance for total JCL management.

MVS Source Recovery - Recover lost Source Code on IBM MVS, VSE and VM.

PDSFAST - High speed DASD Management, PDS Management and IEBCOPY Replacement.

SmartProduction - SmartProduction is an innovative software product that will dramatically reduce your batch window and will increase your system online time, by reducing run time and resource consumption of batch jobs and applications. SmartProduction identifies production Batch problems related to job flow and application resource consumption and provides solutions. SmartProduction can detect a wide range of production inefficiencies (over 300) which, when resolved, can dramatically reduce system resources utilization (e.g., CPU and I/O) and significantly cut job elapsed run-times.

XREF/Plus - JCL documentation and cross referencing tool with over 40 easy to read reports and flow charting features.

XREFPLUS!DB - Online JCL  cross reference Database utility. Using ISPF you can browse a listing of all the datasets named in your JCL or PROCLIBS and generate custom reports.

CIM - (Catalog Information Manager) ICF Catalog Online Reporting, Maintenance, Analysis, Diagnosis, and Catalog Backup and Recovery. Please add in the zSeries section.

VIM - (VSM Assist) Avoid zSeries Data Loss with VIM.

CSM - (Cross Sysplex Manager) Synchronised Data Processing across multiple z/OS Systems.

DSO - (DASD Space Optimiser) - Optimise z/OS Disk Space.

AUTOMATION / TAPE / DASD MANAGEMENT / FILE EDITING

 FileMarvel - Dataset viewer and editor for OS/390 and z/OS. You can use FileMarvel to look at and maintain any kind of dataset - VSAM, SAM or source, JCL etc in a PDS. Even tape. Some of the things you can do to your datasets using FileMarvel include browsing, editing, changing the layout, copying, sorting / merging, printing and allocating datasets. Displays can be formatted in a number of ways including hex, character and, of particular interest to application programmers, copybook formatting for COBOL and PLI..

 OVERRIDE - VSAM is critically important to most mainframe installations, yet it is rarely used optimally. One consequence, is that jobs that access VSAM files almost always run longer than necessary. OverRide is a product which is designed to significantly increase the performance of VSAM in EVERY installation. It does this in a way which is transparent to the programs involved, does not alter any VSAM files and does not make any mods to VSAM itself. While each installation is different, many sites have shown potential savings to be astounding. In fact the performance benefits can be so significant that it has been possible to delay the purchase of new hardware!

 DATA/MINER - Data/Miner is an easy to use, general purpose I/O interface utility designed to simplify and standardise access to VSAM files. Data/Miner provides full VSAM access from programs written in many fourth generation languages such as NATURAL and Focus. Data/Miner also provides a more powerful, easier and efficient way of accessing VSAM from programs written in 3rd generation languages such as PL/I or COBOL.

 VSUM - VSUM provides powerful design, monitoring and tuning capabilities for VSAM data sets and catalogs. VSUM provides five major functions, which will simplify many of the routine and complex tasks necessary for effective VSAM data set design and management. VSUM can be executed in eithe3r TSO/ISPF or batch mode.

 VSHARE - VSHARE allows multiple programs to update the same VSAM file simultaneously. To accomplish this, VSHARE intercepts batch VSAM requests and ship the requests to a CICS region. CICS then updates the file on behalf of the batch jobs. By giving the batch jobs the ability to update files within CICS, VSHARE makes CICS the VSAM data manager.

SmartAnalyzer for DMS - is a powerful software product specially designed to address the issue of on-site application backup. SmartAnalyzer identifies exposures and inefficiencies in the way your business data is backed up. SmartAnalyzer provides comprehensive auditing capabilities for data centers employing the DMS (CA-Disk) disk management product. SmartAnalyzer supports all DMS environments, regardless of the level of DFSMS data policy implementation, local backup standards and methodologies used.

SmartAnalyzer for HSM - is a powerful software product specially designed to address the issue of onsite application data backup and migration. SmartAnalyzer identifies problems and inefficiencies in the way your business data is managed. SmartAnalyzer provides comprehensive auditing capabilities for data centers employing the HSM (DFSMShsm) disk management product. SmartAnalyzer supports all HSM environments, regardless of the level of SMS data policy implementation, local backup standards and methodologies used.

FDSO - Fast Dataset Organiser for VSAM, Sequential and PDS datasets. Organises and maintains datasets on DASD volumes.

ODDS/MVS - Lights out automated operations.

TAPE/2000 - Automated tape library media Management for complete protection of tape media under MVS.

ZELA - Maximises tape media usage for manual and robotic environments and seamlessly integrates with Virtual Tape Library Solutions.

ZELDA - Provides automated media management by freeing wasted DASD resources for future processing.

SECURITY/AUDITING/DISASTER RECOVERY

DR/VFI - Identify, Backup and Recover files vital to mission critical applications related to Disaster Recovery.

MEGACRYPTION - Software based Data Encryption.