z/OS Capacity Provisioning What's New

Capacity Provisioning management enhancements:

• Provisioning increments allow for faster or more aggressive provisioning
• Recurring time condition support allows to define (weekly) recurring time windows:
  •  Allows to avoid ENABLE and DISABLE commands

Control Center Enhancements:

• Support the 32- and 64-bit versions of
  Microsoft Windows 7 Professional Edition

Statement of Direction to withdraw support for the SNMP:

• z/OS BCPii is the recommend protocol

New with z/OSMF V1.13:

• Capacity Provisioning monitoring task

Capacity Provisioning management enhancements:

• CICS and IMS transaction service class may trigger provisioning actions
• Option for  “rolling PI” management for provisioning durations:
  • Better management if PIs fluctuate
• More reliable hardware control by exploiting z10 and z196 command correlation capability
• Simplified setup via sample security definitions in SYS1.SAMPLIB
• Commands to control z196 static power save mode

Control Center Enhancements:

• New install process:
  • Multiple releases can be installed in parallel
  • Support for Windows Vista ™
• Additional reports available in the Control Center:
  • Domain, Configuration and Policy Status

Capacity Provisioning CIM provider already pre-registered in CIM repository shipped with V1.11:

• Eliminates customization steps