The result...is a single offering to customers that combines the best solution for non-disruptively moving their z/OS disk volumes with the best solution for determining where those volumes should move to...
LITTLE FALLS, N.J. -- (BUSINESS WIRE) --
Concurrent with the 2011 IBM SHARE Conference in Anaheim CA, INNOVATION Data Processing today is announcing, in conjunction with the general availability of FDRPAS V5.4 L75, a partnering with IntelliMagic that will give customers a single offering that combines the unique strengths of FDRPAS and IntelliMagic Balance; FDRPAS non-disruptively moving customer z/OS volumes to new storage systems, or relocating them to underutilized existing storage; as determined by the IntelliMagic Storage Performance Management solution Balance. The benefit to customers', over contemporary storage configuration and disk volume placement methodology, is the non-disruptive establishment of a z/OS disk storage configuration that can improve performance and reduce hardware costs, over a longer useful lifespan.
"FDRPAS/FDRMOVE V5.4 L75 is the fastest, most reliable, safest and easiest to use z/OS volume migration solution available today", says INNOVATION Data Processing, Vice President Advance Technology; Thomas J Meehan. Meehan adding; "The whole point of FDRPAS is to keep systems and applications up and running as z/OS disk volumes are being relocated. Customers are unaffected as new, more efficient disk storage moves in to support the dynamic growth we are all seeing today, or volumes are non-disruptively being relocated to more efficiently use their existing equipment, at any time of day, on any day in the week, any week of the year."
"IntelliMagic Balance reduces risk of performance problems and improves storage efficiency by identifying during all critical processing periods which logical volumes have the hottest data from a back-end hardware perspective, and giving a recommendation on how to move it to optimize balance", says Brent Phillips IntelliMagic Managing Director of the Americas. Phillips explained, "The BALANCE - FDRPAS package solution we are offering includes IntelliMagic PAS/Automation tools that will take IntelliMagic Balance recommendations and create ready to run FDRPAS JCL that will direct FDRPAS to move customer volumes to the best locations for their most efficient and highest performance potential. Balance also has the ability to determine and direct the optimal moves for migrating existing DASD storage to new high efficiency tiered storage systems." Customers seeking to take advantage of this special BALANCE - FDRPAS offering can contact their local IntelliMagic Sales Representative or "sales@intelliMagic.net".
FDRPAS Highlights
FDRPAS V5.4 L75, the latest version of INNOVATION's world class solution for non-disruptive volume migration and low impact consolidation of System z mainframe z/OS DASD includes major new enhancements. Some of the FDRPAS enhancements that are making non-disruptive volume migration safer and simpler than ever before include:
- Source Volume Checking that can now detect potential integrity issues with source volumes and warn users in advance of swapping.
- Dynamic Monitoring, in GRSplex and MIMplex environments, that can eliminate the potential for clerical errors, as PAS swap and simulation tasks will now dynamically start monitor jobs on any LPAR they detect doesn't have a monitor running and dynamically pass the addresses of the volumes the monitors are to swap.
- FDRPAS recognition of JES2, JES3 SPOOL and CHECKPOINT volumes, that eliminates the need for users to manually segregate JES volumes, allows FDRPAS to avoid potential interlocks while concurrently swapping JES volumes with each other or any number of other volumes.
- FDRMOVE Dynamic Allocation Exit business continuance improvements now allow jobs requesting data sets that FDRPAS is moving to wait until they become available, instead of failing.
- New ISPF menu enhancements allow users to quickly and easily migrate an entire controller, an SSID group or a user defined volume group, helping to eliminate the potential for clerical errors as a user now can, for example, simply specify two controller serial numbers and FDRPAS will generate everything else necessary to swap all the volumes in one controller to the other.
- Lifting the SMS Storage Group 255 volume limitation, FDRPAS can optionally sort all the volumes in a migration group by allocated space, or by remaining free space, and select target volumes that will evenly spread the allocated space across the new volumes.
About INNOVATION Data Processing
FDRPAS is a product of INNOVATION Data Processing a leading international provider of enterprise data protection, business continuance and storage resource management solutions satisfying customer business resiliency requirements and information security concerns since 1972. Combining high performance design with non-disruptive virtualization technology, easy-to-use and extremely reliable backup, recovery, data replication and privileged information protection, INNOVATION solutions eliminate business downtime while addressing data security concerns. Actively partnering with other leading storage technology vendors to ensure the technological currency of their solutions, INNOVATION is the business resiliency choice of thousands of enterprise customers and business partner professional services groups around the world, when they need to accomplish the same or a greater amount of work, in the same or lesser amount of time, using less of everything.
About IntelliMagic
IntelliMagic Balance is one of the products in IntelliMagic's Storage Performance Management (SPM) Software Suite. Our products provide full insight into storage system performance and allow pro-active and predictive performance capacity planning. IntelliMagic supports disk and tape storage systems, attached to any type of server platform. Special support for z/OS mainframe related performance data is present in all of our products. IntelliMagic's products are being used by storage vendors and by storage end-users to analyze and predict storage system performance. Our ongoing work with customers around the world and with strategic partners means that the company remains at the forefront of knowledge regarding I/O measurement and management.
Trademark:
FDRPAS and FDRMOVE are service marks, trademarks or registered trademarks of INNOVATION Data Processing. BALANCE and Software Performance Management (SPM) are service marks, trademarks or registered trademarks of IntelliMagic. All other service marks, trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
CONTACT:
INNOVATION Data Processing
Thomas J. Meehan, 973-890-7300
tmeehan@fdrinnovation.com
or
Lori Fabisiak, 973-473-6643
lori@weinrichadv.com
or
Brent Phillips, 214-432-7920
E-mail brent.phillips@intellimagic.net