IBM Advanced Storage Management Suite for z/OS V2.2

IBM Advanced Storage Management Suite for z/OS V2.2 introduces new cloud storage tier.

IBM Advanced Storage Management Suite for z/OS adds two new components, IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS and IBM Advanced Archive for DFSMShsm, which allow to exploit the economics of cloud storage with z/OS data. Advanced Storage Management Suite for z/OS is also enhanced with new releases of Tivoli Advanced Reporting and Management for DFSMShsm and Tivoli Advanced Audit for DFSMShsm.

Advanced Storage Management Suite for z/OS delivers the visibility, control, and automation to help get the most out of z/OS hardware and software storage subsystems. Two new components in this release, Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS and Advanced Archive for DFSMShsm, allow to take advantage of the flexibility and economics of cloud storage for less active z/OS data, and at the same time further reduce the cost of operation for DFSMShsm.

New enhancements to the Tivoli Advanced Audit and Tivoli Advanced Reporting and Management for DFSMShsm components will make it easier to administer, as well as adding more flexible reporting options and new reporting on hardware devices with storage tiering.

In aggregate the suite can reduce repetitive tasks for operations analysts and administrators, keeping your team out of reaction mode and helping meet key support level goals. The solution features integrated reports, views, intelligent alerts, and tooling to help maximize the efficiency of your z/OS operations and storage management personnel, hardware, and software. Components provide monitoring and management capabilities as well as specialty tools that can help simplify, troubleshoot, and optimize the more complex aspects of storage management, take advantage of flexible, cost-efficient cloud storage, and report on the new tiering capabilities inherent in today’s storage hardware – all packaged to make them more convenient and economical to acquire and use together. With these products, you can help reduce operating costs, defer or reduce new storage hardware purchases, and reduce complexity and risk in your z/OS storage environment.

Advanced Storage Management Suite for z/OS V2.2 consists of:

Tivoli Advanced Audit for DFSMShsm V2.6 is enhanced to help storage administrators prevent outages or data exposures, with new Tape-Copy-Needed audits and additional DFSMS audits to ensure that Storage Group, Data Class, and Storage Class are correct and match policy. These new releases are available either as part of IBM Advanced Storage Management Suite for z/OS V2.2, or as individually orderable offerings.
Tivoli Advanced Reporting and Management for DFSMShsm V2.6 is enhanced to provide storage administrators better visibility into their storage environment with additional reporting on storage tiering, better control over report formatting, and the ability to submit reports in either online or batch mode.
Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS V1.1 is a new offering from IBM that allows to exploit the economics of cloud with z/OS data. In addition to writing data to tape, you can take advantage of flexible, economical cloud storage environments. No new hardware gateway devices are required to connect to the cloud. Typical usage scenarios include long-term archival and flexible disaster-recovery options.
Advanced Archive for DFSMShsm V1.1 is a new offering which can make DFSMShsm more efficient by adding an archive tier governed by DFSMS policy, that is managed with less DFSMShsm overhead. With this new offering, you can also move inactive data from tape to a cloud for further flexibility.
Tivoli Advanced Catalog Management V2.6
Tivoli Advanced VSAM Manager V2.6
Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management V3.3
Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for Storage V5.3

Key prerequisites: IBM z /OS V1.13, or later.

Planned availability date: September 16, 2016