La Cics Tools Overview April 2009

Palestra do Latin America CICS Roadshow

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CICS “SIX” Tools Overview
Ted Caffarelli
Product Line Manager, CICS Tools
April 2009

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Agenda
I/T Business Requirements
IBM Investments in CICS Tooling
CICS Tools Overview
Leveraging the CICS Explorer
Information Resources

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Common I/T Business Demands
Improve Business Responsiveness
Modernize critical/strategic mainframe platform to support SOA and Web services
Develop and deploy new workloads that provide highest levels of RSA and security
Renewed interest in System z leadership capabilities
Respond to changing market dynamics and skills gaps
Drive I/T Optimization
Reduce total cost of ownership
Growing system complexity
Meet demanding Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
Need for Governance and Compliance
Regulatory and corporate compliance
Data integrity also applies to VSAM managed data (not just DB2)
Protect sensitive data outside production environment
Control and audit access to protected data and system functions

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CICS Tools Investments – 2003 to 2009 Evolution
Increase “ease of management” of CICS TS
Reduce time, effort, and risks associated with CICS TS V2V
Simplify management of CICS TS regions
Assist in modernization and reuse of current applications
“Exploitation and Integration” with CICS TS
Increase business value of being on the latest releases of TS
Speed-up customer deployment of strategic CICS functionality
Leverage tooling to help mitigate declining skills on z
Lower “total cost of ownership” of CICS TS
Provide cost affordable solutions to installed ISV tools
Offer functional equivalence
Leverage OEM providers to minimize investments

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CICS VSAM Transparency (VT)
Enable VSAM to DB2 migration without changes to existing applications
CICS Interdependency Analyzer (IA)
Collect active application inventory for efficient resource understanding
CICS Configuration Manager (CM)
Administrating and maintaining CICS resource definitions
CICS Performance Analyzer (PA)
Batch performance reporting/analysis for tuning and capacity planning
CICS VSAM Recovery (VR)
Automate the recovery of lost VSAM data
IBM Session Manager (ISM) and CL/SuperSession (CL/SS)
Access to multiple z/OS applications from a single terminal
CICS Batch Application Control (BAC)
Manage state of file resources from a batch program
CICS OTTO (OTTO)
Optimize outbound 3270 data streams to improve performance
CICS Tools – Overview
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Tools Mapping To Common I/T Business Demands
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Governance
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√Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS
√√Fault Analyzer for z/OS
√Debug Tool for z/OS
√√File Manager for z/OS
√Optim Move
√√Workload Simulator for z/OS
√√CICS Configuration Manager
√√CICS Interdependency Analyzer
√CICS Online Transmission Time Optimizer
√IBM Session Manager
√CICS Batch Application Control
√CICS VSAM Recovery
√√CICS Performance Analyzer
√√CICS VSAM Transparency
IT Service
Management
Business
Flexibility
Opportunity
Solutions
CICS Tools PD Tools

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Business Flexibility

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CICS Interdependency Analyzer
What is it?
A discovery tool that identifies resource
interdependencies in your CICS systems
What’s its value?
Automates detection of your CICS
runtime relationships
Records data in a DB2® database and
helps you analyze the collected
information for use in your daily
processes.
How it enhances the management of CICS?
Captures CICS application relationships:
 Resources used by a transaction - Programs,
Files, TSQs, TDQs plus DB2, MQ, IMS plus
Web services
 Identifies non-threadsafe programs
 Transactions with affinities and their type /
lifetime
 API changes between CICS versions /
releases
 Unused resources
 Sequencing of transactions within an
application
Query facility is now a powerful Eclipse-
based user interface
What are the strengths?
Use CICS resources more efficiently
Balance application workload for continuous
availability
Improve the speed and reduce cost of
application maintenance
Reduce time of problem resolution
Improve CICS CPU consumption
Minimize the impact of routine application
maintenance for the end user
What does it cost?
$1650/VU
Why is this tool important to CICS customers?
Reduce both time/resource required in
understanding active CICS application
inventory for efficient maintenance and reuse.
A manual and error prone process today.
Why do customers buy?
Reduce both time/resource required to
monitor, document, and isolate CICS
applications dependencies.
They want to employ threadsafe programming
and reduce CICS CPU consumption by up to
15%

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CICS VSAM Transparency
What is it?
CICS VSAM Transparency enables the
migration of data from VSAM to DB2
without modification to the CICS or
batch VSAM application programs.
What’s its value?
Lowers risk of migration and better
sharing between online, batch and
distributed applications.
Improved availability (24/7) and
scalability and ability to use DB2 tools
for maintenance and reorganization.
How it enhances the management of CICS?
Migrate VSAM files to DB2 without
changing application programs
Single copy of the data
CICS and batch programs access data in
DB2 under the control of CICS VT
Data migrated to DB2 can be accessed
natively by new programs
Existing programs enhanced using SQL
Lower risk migration strategy
What are the strengths?
Access a single source of production data
Migrate individual VSAM files, as required
Enable new applications to be fully DB2
technology-based
Preserve investments in legacy applications
What does it cost?
$3500/VU
Why is this tool important to CICS customers?
24x7 availability
Integration with new applications based on DB2
technology, such as online and e-business
systems
Running ad hoc queries
Ability to perform data analysis
Creating visual information, such as executive
dashboards
Exploitation of database maintenance tools
Why do customers buy?
CICS VT enables the migration of data from VSAM
files to DB2 tables.
It ensures continued access to the data in DB2,
without modification to the CICS or batch VSAM
application programs.

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IT Service Management

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CICS Performance Analyzer
What is it?
A tool to provide ongoing system
management and measurement reports on
all aspects of CICS application performance
What’s its value?
Reduce both time/resource required to
analyze off-line performance data (usually
massive) for tuning and capacity planning
purposes.
CICSPA is IBM’s strategic SMF reporter for
CICS. It compliments Omegamon XE for
CICS (on-line tool).
How it enhances the management of CICS?
CICS Performance Analyzer for ‘Offline’
Analysis
Provides ongoing system management and
measurement reports on all aspects of CICS
application performance
Enables deep-dive CICS performance
analysis and understanding of usage trends
Aids capacity planning and tuning
Helps quickly identify and eliminate trends
leading to online performance problems
What are the strengths?
Comprehensive Performance Reporting and
Analysis for CICS
Including DB2, WebSphere MQ, and MVS System
Logger
Extensive Tabular Reports and Extract Data Sets
Historical Database (HDB)
Trending and Capacity Planning
Comprehensive reporting of CICS Statistics data
What does it cost?
$900/VU

Why is this tool important to CICS customers?
Plan capacity to reduce MIPS cost
Proactively analyze performance trends to
reduce down time and increase customer
satisfaction
Reduce cost of outages
Reduce risk of missing service level
commitments
Reduce time and cost of managing system
performance and availability
Why do customers buy?
CICS customers need predictable and reliable IT
infrastructures for availability and thruput
Capacity planning is critical to meet peak
performance levels required by e-business
transactions

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IBM Session Manager
What is it?
Secure and user-friendly method of
accessing multiple z/OS systems from a
single 3270 terminal - SNA and TCP/IP
What’s its value?
Users access the information they need
without having to know where the
applications are or what system they run
on, helping to reduce system-
administration time, providing faster access
to a variety of applications while minimizing
training requirements.
How it enhances the management of CICS?
Password-protected menu gives access all
applications in network
Log-off procedures, security checking,
audit logging and centralized
administration, operations, and monitoring
Benefits to helpdesk and operations
personnel via the ‘Spy‘ function
Benefits in training staff – ‘Demo’ function
Centralized user ID admin and the ability to
broadcast messages to end users
Session recovery across the Sysplex
What are the strengths?
High application availability
Near-continuous operations
Workload balancing and shared
configurations
User customization
What does it cost?
$2500/VU
Why is this tool important to CICS customers?
ISM is a VTAM or TCP/IP session manager
that offers secure and user-friendly access
to multiple z/OS systems from a single 3270
terminal or equivalent.
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Why do customers buy?
It gives users a single secure sign-on, and
allows controlled access to all of their
applications from multiple concurrent
virtual sessions using a wide range of tools
and facilities.

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Governance and Risk Management

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CICS Configuration Manager
What is it?
CICS Configuration Manager simplifies CICS
resource-definition administration and
maintenance, while at the same time offering
comprehensive reporting and optional change-
management control facilities.
What’s its value?
Simplified and controlled management of CICS
application resources. Aids systems
administration, lowers costs, reduces risk of
downtime due to user errors and speeds
version to version migration
How it enhances the management of CICS?
Create, Update, Delete, Copy, Replicate CICS
resource definitions
Provides change management through the life-
cycle stages
Create customized reports to identify
redundant definitions, show resource
relationships and change management history
Audit, back-out and change authorization
capabilities
What are the strengths?
Reduce both time/resource in gaining tighter
control over CICS CSD administration and
enhance compliance with change
management policies.
Generate audit reports to simplify effort and
costs associated with compliance
What does it cost?
$900/VU
Why is this tool important to CICS customers?
Accurate CICS resource definitions are
essential to maintain the high availability
expected of CICS. With tens, or even
hundreds, of CICS regions across the
enterprise, each containing hundreds or
thousands of artifacts, maintaining potentially
millions of definitions can be challenging.
Why do customers buy?
Reduce both time/resource in gaining tighter
control over CICS CSD administration
Enhance compliance with change
management policies.
 Generate audit reports to simplify effort and
costs associated with compliance

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CICS VSAM Recovery
What is it?
CICS VR recovers CICS and batch VSAM
data from physical or logical corruption
What’s its value?
Helps automate recovery of damaged or
lost VSAM data sets, caused by
catastrophic hardware failure, software
failure, or human error
Supports CICS, batch, or combined
environments
Enhances environments where availability
and VSAM data integrity is vital
Delivers an ISPF panel interface and
automates the construction of recovery
jobs
How it enhances the management of CICS?
Key features of CICS Recovery are:
Change accumulation
Export and Import commands
Batch support including logging
NOTIFY support for IBM and non-IBM
backups
Supports backups created by Backup-
While-Open (BWO)
Automated recovery
Provides authorization management for the
panel interface
Provides test-only forward recovery and
backout
What are the strengths?
Helps recover from errors quickly
Reduce need for offline processing
Improves availability of your online CICS
systems
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What does it cost?
$1372/VU
Why is this tool important to CICS customers?
CICS VR recovers CICS and batch VSAM
data from physical or logical corruption
Can be integrated into a customer
Resiliency Initiative
Can play a major role in disaster recovery
initiatives
Why do customers buy?
 No manual record keeping
 CICS VR is notified of all necessary recovery
information and stores it in a central repository
Less possibility of user errors
 CICS VR automatically builds an appropriate
recovery job requiring minimal user intervention
Drastically save time
 CICS VR uses known recovery information to
quickly build an appropriate recovery

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New Integrated CICS Eco System
CICS Interdependency
Analyzer
CICS Explorer
(Available to CICS TS V3/4 users)
Task features (plug-ins) for
CICS Transaction Server V3/4
CICS Performance Analyzer
CICS Configuration Manager
CICS Interdependency Analyzer
Standalone… Integrated…
CICS Configuration
Manager
CICS Performance
Analyzer
CICS TS V3.2
What is the CICS Explorer?
A new user interface to reduce the skills required to develop, deploy
and manage CICS applications. The CICS Explorer will be
incorporated in current and future releases of CICS Transaction
Server as a strategic point of integration between the run-time and
add-on tools, extensible by IBM, business partners and clients.
Powerful, intuitive, eclipse-based user interface
Runtime
Config Management
Discovery
Performance

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CICS Communities and Information
CICS Transaction Server V4.1
http://ibm.com/cics/tserver/v41/
CICS Explorer home page
Remember this link ibm.com/cics/explorer
CICS Explorer Forum
http://tinyurl.com/68bndw
IBM developerWorks forum with FAQs, Links and resources, ISV
Contributions, etc. Ask questions, suggest improvements, report
problems, chat
Twitter
Subscribe to the IBM_System_z channel to get CICS Explorer
news flashes
CICS Blog
Comment and opinion at TheMasterTerminal.com
CICS eNews
Subscribe for news about CICS and related products
YouTube channels
CICS Explorer - Videos, demos and other cool stuff
CICSFluff - Other CICS videos
CICS Explorer Public Forum
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