IBM z/OS Management Facility

Welcome to the new face for z/OS. The IBM z/OS Management Facility (5655-S28) is a new product for z/OS that provides support for a modern, Web-browser based management console for z/OS.

Who should use the z/OS Management Facility? Everyone. The z/OS Management Facility is intended to enable system programmers to more easily manage and administer a mainframe system by simplifying day to day operations and administration of a z/OS system.

More than just a graphical user interface, the z/OS Management Facility is intelligent. Automated tasks can help reduce the learning curve and improve productivity. In addition, embedded active user assistance (such as wizards) guides users through tasks and helps provide simplified operations

The z/OS Management Facility supports the following system management tasks:

• Incident Log - Simplified capture, packaging, sending of SVC dump diagnostic data
• Configuration Assistant for z/OS Communication Server - Simplified configuration and setup of TCP/IP policy-based networking functions
• Workload Management - creation, editing, and activation of WLM policies
• Resource Monitoring and System Status - single view of sysplex and Linux® performance status. Dynamic real time metrics
• Software Deployment - Clone z/OS images, deploy software more easily and consistently
• Capacity Provisioning - simplified monitoring of CP status for domains
• Classic ISPF Task integrates existing ISPF into z/OSMF to launch to ISPF functions directly