IBM Cloud and Smarter Infrastructure z/OS Storage Management Products

IBM Cloud and Smarter Infrastructure z/OS storage management products deliver the visibility, control, and automation to help manage and optimize the many z/OS hardware and software subsystems involved in z/OS storage and help reduce repetitive tasks for operations analysts and administrators, keeping your team out of reaction mode and helping meet key support level goals.

The products feature integration and capability to help maximize the efficiency of z/OS operations and storage management personnel, hardware, and software subsystems. They provide monitoring and management capabilities as well as specialty tools that can help simplify, troubleshoot, and optimize the more complex aspects of storage management, packaged to make them more convenient and economical to acquire and use together. These products can help reduce operating costs, defer or eliminate new storage hardware purchases, and reduce complexity and risk in your z/OS storage environment.

New offerings, enhancements, packaging, and pricing options available for the products below can help deliver greater efficiencies for administrators and subject matter experts, help improve utilization of storage devices, and help reduce Central Processing Unit (CPU) utilization, resulting in lower operating and capital costs over time.

• Tivoli Advanced Storage Management Suite for z/OS, V2.1
• Tivoli Advanced VSAM Manager for z/OS, V2.6 (new offering)
• Tivoli Advanced Backup and Recovery for z/OS, V2.4
• Tivoli Advanced Catalog Management for z/OS, V2.6
  •         Includes option for Tivoli Advanced VSAM Manager for z/OS, V2.6
• Tivoli Automated Tape Allocation Manager, V3.3

Key prerequisites

• IBM z/OS V1.13, or later

Planned availability date

• July 18, 2014: Tivoli Automated Tape Allocation Manager for z/OS V3.3.0
• September 5, 2014: Tivoli Advanced Storage Management Suite V2.1.0, Tivoli Advanced VSAM Manager for z/OS V2.6.0, Tivoli Advanced Backup and Recovery for z/OS V2.4.0, Tivoli Advanced Catalog Management for z/OS V2.6.0