Computer Associates International, today announced general availability of Unicenter Database Management r11 for IMS for z/OS, a comprehensive, integrated solution that enables IMS users to optimise database performance, reduce data centre operations costs and protect business-critical data more effectively.
In addition to supporting IMS v9, this latest version offers enhancements that help organisations safeguard database integrity, minimise backup and recovery times, and conserve CPU resources.
It also bundles functionality previously licensed separately into three core products - Unicenter Database Analyzer, Unicenter Database Organizer and Unicenter High Performance Recovery - providing even greater business value to data centre buyers. Customers will gain this bundled functionality at no charge when they upgrade to the r11 release.
New functionality includes a Control Block Validity Manager for enhanced database integrity, a Forward Recovery feature that provides a "hot backup" database in case the primary database goes down, and improved ease of use. Support for new IMS v9 features includes automatically identifying and operating on the correct data set group after the IMS v9 High Availability Large Database (HALDB) online reorganization process has occurred, and supporting compression of Data Entry Databases (DEDB) when they are opened by multiple Task Control Blocks (TCBs).
"As we pursue ongoing efforts to get more business value out of our mainframe technology investments, CA is continuing to deliver management solutions that support this objective," said Steve Potkonjak, team leader for IMS systems at St George Bank Limited, the fifth largest bank in Australia.
"The increased performance we`ve achieved with CA`s enhanced utilities has enabled us to minimise our maintenance windows so we can further maximise access to our critical IMS data."
Unicenter Database Management for IMS for z/OS is available under CA`s FlexSelect licensing programme, including Measured Workload Pricing, which bases licensing costs on measured system usage. It is offered in three integrated and interoperable solution sets - database performance management, database administration, and database backup and recovery - that are designed to improve service levels, data availability and application responsiveness across IMS for z/OS databases.
"Our customers` database environments are increasingly complex and critical to their daily business operations," said Scott Jessee, senior vice-president of Unicenter database management at CA. "That`s why CA is investing in the evolution of our industry-leading data centre management portfolio with solutions like Unicenter Database Management for IMS for z/OS."
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Computer Associates International, Inc (NYSE:CA), one of the world`s largest management software companies, delivers software and services across operations, security, storage, lifecycle and service management to optimise the performance, reliability and efficiency of enterprise IT environments. Founded in 1976, CA is headquartered in Islandia, New York and serves customers in more than 140 countries. For more information, please visit http://ca.com.
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