Tivoli System Automation for z/OS

The premier high availability and automation software solution for z/OS

Tivoli System Automation for z/OS is a policy-based, self-healing, high-availability solution to maximize efficiency and availability of critical systems and applications.

Reduces administrative and operational tasks, customization and programming effort, automation implementation time and costs with Parallel Sysplex® management and automation, I/O management, and policy-based automation; Integrates with Tivoli® products—TEP, TEC, TWS, TSRM, Tivoli Monitoring Suite.

  • Delivers high availability for IBM z/OS® systems and IBM Parallel Sysplex® clusters through flexible, cluster-wide, policy-based self-healing, helping to minimize the implementation, coding and support time
  • Provides advanced application disaster recovery capabilities using IBM Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex™ (GDPS®) to manage remote copy configuration storage subsystems, and provide failure recovery
  • Optimizes system health and performance by using goal-driven automation to simplify operations, minimize costs, and support business goals
  • Reduces automation implementation time and cost by proactively managing availability through performance-driven automation, improving the speed of problem notification and resolution, automated alert notification and escalation
  • Leverages powerful dependency support for modeling automation configurations, addressing dependencies, and optimizing operations
  • Integrates with Tivoli® System Automation Application Manager for end-to-end automation of multitier heterogeneous applications to increase availability and manage application components across platforms with a single action
  • Integrates with Tivoli Service Request Manager, Tivoli Netcool®/OMNIbus, Tivoli Enterprise Console® (TEC), and Tivoli Enterprise Portal monitoring workspaces, for increased visibility, control, and automation

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Tivoli System Automation for z/OS

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Features, advantages and benefits
FeaturesAdvantagesBenefits
Auto-Discovery Extracts relevant data from active address spaces and correlates to SA z/OS sample policies Quickly build policies and make them ready to use without a lot of manual effort
Job Log Monitoring Application messages written to joblog now available for automation Messages forwarded for automation without manually going thru job log
Runmodes Staged IPL or system shutdown with only subset of resources started or stopped. Can be used to switch from one environment to another, for example, from a normal mode into a disaster recovery mode or switching from a weekday configuration to a weekend configuration Eliminates need to have multiple policy databases, for example, production environment vs. disaster recovery. Maintaining just one policy can help reduce labor effort and help reduce input errors
TEP Topology Combines dependency graph with resource status to allows operators to notice odd system behavior Quickly spot problems and verify relationships
GDPS New sample policies focused on GDPS environments Help to quickly and easily set up datacenters to run GDPS workloads
zEnterprise zBX Support Manipulate zBX objects such as BladeCenters, blade servers, virtual hosts, virtual servers Discovery, querying activating, monitoring and automating of zBX components

Product requirements

The following are product requirements for IBM Tivoli System Automation for z/OS V3.3.

The target system can run in any IBM and non-IBM hardware environment that supports one of the following:

  • IBM z/OS (5694-A01) V1.9, or later

  • Tivoli NetView for z/OS (5697-ENV) V5.2, or later

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