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Document Author: Additional Author(s):	Valerie Spencer Shawn Lundvall		Document ID:	PRS5132
Doc. Organization:	WSC IBM Z		Document Revised:	01/07/2019
Product(s) covered:	z Systems; z/OS

Abstract: zBNA is a PC-based productivity tool designed to provide a means of estimating the elapsed time for batch jobs solely based on the differences in CPU speeds for a base processor and a target processor, the number of engines on each system, and system capacities; data sharing is not considered. zBNA provides powerful, graphic demonstration of the z/OS batch window.

Important: Any previous version of zBNA must be uninstalled prior to installing the new version (1.7.0) that supports Java V8. This is necessary in order to preserve Windows Registry integrity with respect to this tool. Product Name: zBNA Product Version: 1.8.4 Operating System: Windows 7/8/10 64-bit Change Date: January 4, 2019 Approximate Size: 169MB Click to download the zBNA install package which includes the required IBM CPS Java V8 zBNA requires an independent version of the IBM CPS Java Runtime Environment v8 64-bit, which is packaged with the tool. Obtain the CP3KEXTR program CP3KEXTR runs on a System z processor under z/OS. It reads the SMF records to produce an Enterprise Data File (.edf) that contains the SMF Type 70's & 113 data and a (.dat) file, which contains the Type 14, 15, 30 (4) (5), 42 (6) data as input to zBNA. Access the CP3KEXTR materials. What's New in zBNA A summary of what has changed in the latest zBNA release. zBNA Basics zBNA User's Guide Navigating around zBNA. zBNA Education Hands-on Labs Documents Step-by-step instructions to help familiarize with zBNA's functions. Data files for hands-on labs Data to use for the zBNA hands-on labs. zBNA Presentation and Demo Files From the August 2015 "Open Mic" FAQ Forum session describing the latest update at that time plus a demo. zBNA Presentation and zEDC Demo From the February 2014 "Open Mic" FAQ Forum session, which mainly focused on estimating zEDC. Live Demo ***requires Adobe Flash Player*** zBNA demo from the Washington Systems Center 2013 System Z Techcast. The demo starts at minute 36:40. Installation of zBNA on Windows Support and Contacts Please send questions/comments to zpcr@us.ibm.com.

Classification:	Hardware	Category:	Performance
Platform(s):	IBM System z Family	S/W Pillar(s):	IBM System z Software
O/S:	z/OS	Keywords:	zBNA, Batch Network Analyzer, batch, batch window