As the diversity of data grows, IT professionals need to manage data quickly and easily, regardless of platform or data type. Addressing this requirement, Compuware Corporation has released File-AID/CS 3.0, a key component of its enterprise test-data management offering.
According to Phil Ledwaba, team leader mainframe solutions at Compuware Corporation SA, File-AID/CS 3.0 delivers the broadest range of data type and platform support available, helping IT professionals save time by reducing the level of complexity required for managing and preparing data for testing.
"This technology provides a comprehensive solution to managing data on multiple databases and platforms, including Microsoft Windows, Unix and Linux. IT organisations will immediately recognise cost and time savings using File-AID/CS in their testing, development and operation processes," he explains.
Analysts at Meta Group note that diverse data sources pose a considerable challenge for effective management within IT-centric businesses. "It is clear that IT organisations are increasingly burdened by the breadth of data sources to be managed," says Doug Laney, Vice-President and Director, Enterprise Analytic Strategies at the research organisation.
"Our clients report that managing the variety of data they have is twice the challenge that either the volume of data or velocity of data are. While vendors and consultants are busy hyping scalable data management solutions, they are ignoring the more pressing issue of how to manage the burgeoning range of data environments," adds Laney.
To address the growing number of data types with which users are required to work, File-AID/CS 3.0 includes a data conversion utility that converts and transforms multiple data types through a graphical interface-including direct access to data residing in OS/390 and z-Series environments.
"File-AID/CS 3.0 includes an improved related-extract and load that allows users to subset related data from one database and load the data into another with minimal database expertise," continues Ledwaba.
Further, users can run this process at the server level for better performance in addition to applying data transformation. This enables users to develop test data that reflects the original production environment but with smaller volumes, better test data and reduced testing time.
File-AID/CS 3.0 also contains an enhanced compare facility that enables users to validate results across heterogeneous data environments from a single point-of-control, resulting in more accurate testing, quicker time-to-market and reduced deployment errors. Support is now expanded to include stored procedures, triggers and XML.
"With the many data types and databases present in most organisations, things can get complex very quickly. With File-AID/CS, users cut through unfamiliar technology to test better without having to be familiar with each data environment they support," says Ledwaba.
File-AID/CS supports Oracle, DB2 UDB, Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase, XML, Access, Excel, VSAM, IMS, DB2 UDB for z/OS, QSAM and ASCII and runs on Microsoft Windows, Unix and Linux platforms, and is available immediately.
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