Macro 4, the UK`s largest developer of systems software, has announced a new version of its INSYNC Fault Management solution. The latest release, version 3.1, announces a host of new features designed to make the task of S/390 Fault Management even faster and easier.
INSYNC is an advanced file and data management utility for program development and file-record maintenance on all types of data supported under OS/390. INSYNC is particularly valuable to organisations who must get their IT systems back on-line in the minimum amount of time.
Tony Sudworth, product marketing manager at Macro 4, said; "OS/390 applications and data are the backbone of today`s drive for e-business. INSYNC is a full-featured, cost effective solution for controlling that data on the OS/390."
Researchers IDC estimate that organisations such as a credit card company can stand to lose as much as $2.3 million per hour in the event of an application failure. Forty minutes spent rectifying the problem with manual methods can cost the company as much as $1.5 million dollars.
Using INSYNC, companies can reduce this downtime to as little as five minutes - which, at a cost of $191,000 represents a saving to the organisation of as much as $1.3 million.
Macro 4`s INSYNC also helps organisations plan their medium to long term mainframe software costs more accurately, by offering site licenses that afford customers the flexibility to upgrade their systems in line with their business requirements. This is achieved with a flexible, managed approach for containing software costs.
New Features
Key to this release of the software is the introduction of full support for IMS; including on-line and batch support, DL/1 and BMP access, static and dynamic PSBs as well as physical, logical and secondary index support.
INSYNC IMS functions are available to users in both on-line and batch modes. This allows the user to verify on-line that a particular change to a database is valid, and then use the batch facility to automate changes to the complete database.
INSYNC provides users with both DL/1 and BMP access to the IMS systems: DL/1 for when all programs and databases reside in the same MVS space; BMP for situations where programs and databases are in a separate IMS-owned MVS address space.
IMS Program Specification Blocks (PSBs) can be predefined or created dynamically by INSYNC - allowing users to select the type of PSB most appropriate for their program.
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