SmartProduction® is an innovative software product that will increase your system online time by reducing run time and resource consumption of batch jobs and applications.

SmartProduction® identifies production batch problems related to job flow and application resource consumption and provides solutions. SmartProduction® can detect a wide range of production inefficiencies (over 350) which, when resolved, can dramatically reduce system resources utilization (e.g., CPU and I/O) and significantly reduce job elapsed run times.

Benefits:

• Up to 30% reduction in batch window time,
  providing users with increased online availability
• Reduce CPU, I/O and DASD consumption
• Save money by extending the life of current hardware investments and postponing the need for future upgrades
• Help mission-critical applications run faster
• Faster online response time
• Reduce operating costs
• Improve overall system utilization

SmartProduction® detects batch tuning opportunities in the following areas:

• Identifying jobs performing unnecessary or obsolete work.
• VSAM Data Set tuning.
• VSAM Buffering tuning (NSR, LSR in batch, BLSR optimization).
• Optimizing Sort executions (DFSORT, SyncSort).
• Optimizing Utilities executions (IEBGENER, IDCAMS, IEBCOPY, DFSMSdss ADRDSSU, FDR)).
• Optimizing Storage Management Utilities executions (DUMP, DEFRAG).
• DB2 application performance optimization and exception detection.
• DB2 Housekeeping utility executions optimization (DSNUTILB, BMC Plus series, DSNTIAUL) .
• Identifying inefficient COBOL compile options.
• Recommending Data-in-memory (VIO, LSR in batch) usage.
• Exposing the volume of Operational Delays.
• Monitoring Data Set Compression and Striping usage.
• Auditing Workload Manager (WLM) behaviour.
• Identifing DASD over-allocation.
  

Hardware and Software requirements:
SmartProduction® executes on all processors capable of running under supported versions of z/OS and OS/390.

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