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Your IBM® mainframe z/OS™ applications are important for your business but
so are a growing number of other applications running on a host of other
mission-critical servers. Your mainframe based job scheduler doesn't support
your goals of comprehensive enterprise-wide integration and automation and
its features and functionality are not keeping pace with your growing needs.
Integrating, automating and managing all of those business-critical
applications together can be a difficult, expensive, and time consuming
operation. Finally, there is a robust solution available, Tidal Enterprise
Adapter™ for z/0S from Tidal Software, whose focus on your needs provides
the functionality, attention and service you deserve.
Mainframe Application Automation
The Enterprise Adapter for z/OS brings the power of Tidal Enterprise
Scheduler™ application automation solution to your IBM mainframe. This
robust solution lets you easily create, manage and monitor application jobs
and job dependencies between your IBM z/OS mainframe environment and your
Windows® UNIX®, Linux®, OVMS® and OS/400® environments, while at the same
time bringing unprecedented richness in functionality to your mainframe
application environment. Mainframe application jobs can share in Tidal
Software’s rich capabilities such as exception-based management, fault
tolerance and ERP integration which are features that most mainframe job
schedulers do not offer. You gain an easy to use single point-of-control for
monitoring and interacting with mainframe application jobs even if they are
running under mainframe job schedulers such as CA-7®. Most importantly, in
today's heterogeneous environment you gain the ability to integrate your
mainframe application jobs into business workflows that involve applications
on other platforms, by setting cross-system dependencies which can be
attached to native mainframe jobs or to jobs within mainframe schedulers.
Key Benefits
- Unifies enterprise-wide application scheduling automation for z/OS, Windows,
UNIX, Linux, OVMS and OS/400 environments. That means increased productivity and
reliability, and reduced implementation and operations costs.
- Leverages and extends your existing investment in IBM mainframe scheduling.
- Simplifies integration of legacy mainframe applications with Windows, UNIX,
Linux, OVMS and OS/400 applications, with a point-and-click graphical user
interface.
- Eliminates the need to write scripts in order to set up job
cross-dependencies, saving time and money.
- Provides a single user interface to monitor and control application jobs
regardless of platform, allowing a centralized staff for business operations.
- Reduces training time and costs by providing a single solution for all your
needs.
- Rapid implementation for fast operational impact and ROI.
- Provides cost effective co-existence of mainframe processing with PC and
UNIX processing.
Key Features
- Runs JCL, MVS commands and z/OS UNIX System Services (USS) jobs.
- Supports dual directional FTP file transfers between the mainframe and
another server in the network.
- Provides a Windows-style graphical view for logs from mainframe jobs.
- Maintains a Windows-style view of mainframe job status output, and the
scanning of this output for particular values or exit codes for setting
additional dependencies.
- Makes output values available for shell scripts or other commands.
- Sets multiple, conditional dependencies on z/OS jobs, job steps or condition
codes.
- Offers a built in recovery in the event of an Adapter disruption. The
Adapter stores job information and sends it once the connection to the Tidal
Enterprise Scheduler is reestablished.
- Optimizes real-time status on mainframe jobs, job steps and job
dependencies.
- Allows the running of a mainframe job based on a File Exists condition on
another server.
- Encompasses a graphical illustration of mainframe, Windows and UNIX job
flows.
- Owns an optional fault-tolerant feature, so critical processes are not
disrupted.
- Supports a simple, non-invasive installation of the Adapter
Tidal Enterprise Scheduler allows users to quickly and easily create z/OS
dependencies for any z/OS job. Dependencies can be set on any number of z/OS
specific job conditions.
Protecting Your Investment
The z/OS platform manages many of the critical business processes essential
to the success of your organization. This platform must share data from
business processes with the other strategic systems and applications in the
environment. As your company continues to maintain and invest in a
combination of IBM mainframes, Windows and UNIX- based applications, you
require a comprehensive solution to the challenge of application automation
across heterogeneous environments. Your organization can no longer afford to
handle data sharing between these applications manually, especially in the
face of increased business demands for efficiency and competitive advantage.
To accomplish this business requirement, many organizations have turned to
Tidal Software to fill the gap between legacy mainframe job schedulers and
their Windows and UNIX environments or to increase the manageability of
their mainframe environment.
Increasing Your Capabilities
With the Enterprise Adapter for z/OS, you can define, launch, monitor and
control z/OS jobs, job dependencies and file events without making
modifications to your existing mainframe jobs or schedules. The non-invasive
Enterprise Adapter also enables you to manage critical dependencies between
existing mainframe applications or schedulers and other systems. Jobs
running on the z/OS platform can depend on the status or results of a job
running on other platforms or on processes running in other applications.
With the Enterprise Adapter, your time and labor for scheduling is reduced
and there is no need for scripting or manual intervention to coordinate job
executions across your mainframe and PC, Windows, UNIX, Linux, OVMS and
OS/400 environments.
Call Tidal Software for more information, to see a demo or to receive
a free evaluation of Enterprise Adapter for z/OS.
1-877-55-Tidal
sales@tidalsoftware.com
