Tivoli® System Automation for z/OS® enables high availability for critical business applications through policy-based self-healing capabilities and provides a single point of control for a full range of systems management functions. Users can define a desired state of the system, and the software will monitor and launch the appropriate response in case the system deviates from that desired state. Plug and play policy modules for many IBM and non-IBM middleware and applications, such as IMS, CICS®, DB2®, WebSphere®, GDPS® and mySAP Business Suite, are included to provide immediate out of the box value. Customers can also create, or customize, policies to meet specific business or IT requirements. Tivoli System Automation for z/OS help customers with single z/OS systems and Parallel Sysplex® clusters to: - Reduce the frequency and duration of incidents that impact IT availability
- Improve productivity with reduced scripting requirements
- Address high availability shortcomings with policy modules based on best practices
- Ease management of complex infrastructures with a single point of control for multi-site enterprises
- Move the IT organization from reactive error correction to preemptive service protection
- Automates the z/OS system's Input/Output, processor and systems operations
- Free operators from low-level tasks so they can focus on higher value activities
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Enhanced integration with IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON® XE, System Automation for Multiplatforms, Workload Scheduler for z/OS, and System Automation for Integrated Operations Management help you: - Proactively manage availability and performance through performance-driven automation
- Integrate z/OS into end-to-end automation of complex applications spanning multiple platforms using IBM Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms
- Reduce manual intervention by allowing batch workloads to issue commands that automatically stop and start resources
- Improve the speed of problem resolution with automated alert notification and escalation
- Create availability and recovery time reports that can be used to determine the total IPL or shutdown time and for trend analysis
| Recent enhancements to help improve performance and user productivity include: - Support for user commands based on the status of another resource
- Improved CICS monitoring using the CICSPlex® SM events
- New sample policies, including HYPERSWAP, IBMCOMP (IO-Ops), ITM product family, and TBSM
- Nested class support reducing the policy definition effort
- TCPIP support within IO-Ops enabling customers to depart from SNA
- Smarter group behavior to help reduce application down time
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Single Point of Automation for Parallel Sysplex Environments With Tivoli System Automation for z/OS, you can automate a Parallel Sysplex application as a whole-no matter how many resources it consists of or where they reside. Resources with complex dependencies can be started as required and moved to other systems. Tivoli System Automation for z/OS helps you handle cross-system dependencies, minimize complexity, maximize availability, optimize operations and model your configuration. You can make automation of true Parallel Sysplex applications a reality by leveraging: - An advanced manager/agent design
- Grouping of resources and definitions of business applications
- Powerful dependency support for modeling a configuration
- Goal-driven automation
Tivoli System Automation for z/OS allows you to also establish a single point of automation for Sysplex-wide processor operations including IPL (initial program load), configuration, recovery and shut down of all servers, processors and images. It also allows you to automate processor operations based on schedule and workload goals such as LPAR weights and defined capacity. Enable Performance-Based Automation
Tivoli System Automation for z/OS factors performance-related information from IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON® monitors into your automation processing framework. This allows you to proactively inform system administrators, terminate jobs or move workloads from one system to another, depending on the appropriate course of action, ahead of an impending outage for optimized system performance. The SA z/OS V3.2 performance-driven automation uses a two-way interface with OMEGAMON XE to: - Obtain and filter installation-defined exceptions
- Query OMEGAMON performance metrics at regular intervals
- Issue any OMEGAMON command to help resolve the performance problem
- Receive unsolicited events from OMEGAMON so that automated corrective actions can be taken
Tivoli System Automation for z/OS has enhanced integration with IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler that allows TWS user to issue any SA/NetView command as part of a TWS operation - eliminating the need to change automation policy and SA z/OS and TWS proactively manage critical paths to meet strict scheduling deadlines. Enhanced Out-of-the-box Policy Modules Tivoli System Automation for z/OS ships with over 40 plug and play automation policy modules for major IBM and non-IBM middleware and applications, reducing the installation effort. Policy module structures have been developed based on best practices, including customer experiences and sophisticated knowledge of each application. Tivoli System Automation for z/OS also includes a policy module import feature that provides dynamic, mass import of policies into existing, already running configurations for even easier and quicker implementation for new or existing applications. Easier Message Management Out-of-the-box automated message management is included for many commercial applications and z/OS components. This requires minimal effort in setup, and helps ensure high quality installation. Included also are customizable single action message management. The required z/OS and NetView message definitions are automatically generated. The powerful message policy supports different automation for different start types or message codes. Advanced Disaster Recovery Capabilities Designed to work with your z/OS environment, Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex® (GDPS®) offerings are business continuity solutions from IBM Global Services that allow you to manage and streamline disaster recovery processes. GDPS automates the recovery of critical applications and workloads for planned and unplanned outages to provide near-continuous availability. With GDPS, you can have total confidence that your key business applications will be up and running when your employees, partners and customers need them. Tivoli System Automation for z/OS enables GDPS to manage the remote copy configuration and storage subsystem, automate Parallel Sysplex operational tasks and perform failure recovery from a single point of control, thereby improving application availability. It includes plug’n play automation policy modules for even faster setup, implementation and operation with GDPS. The Tivoli System Automation portfolio is essential for comprehensive high availability in a heterogeneous environment, providing the ability to gain scale advantages and use similar management and policy definitions for consistent, enterprise-wide application automation. Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms integrates with Tivoli System Automation for z/OS, allowing you to more effectively automate your composite applications and increase availability. By helping to deliver a Web-based single point of high availability across z/OS, Linux®, IBM AIX® and Windows, Tivoli System Automation allows you to: - Display aggregated and detailed status of application components
- Start or stop application components on all platforms with a single action in the right order
- Increase application availability by helping you resolve cross-platform dependencies like recycling your Web application when DB2 software is down
With Tivoli System Automation for z/OS and Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms, you can simplify applications problem determination and resolution and enable IT staff to protect IT services that span heterogeneous environments. The Tivoli System Automation family of products is the only solution for high availability of mission critical applications that can span your z/OS and distributed environments and those who have adopted it are well-positioned for the future! Features, advantages and benefits| Features | Advantages | Benefits |
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| Parallel Sysplex Application Automation | Allows for sysplex-wide grouping of resources, dependencies, and goals that make Parallel Sysplex automation a reality | Manage any number of stand-alone systems and clusters from a single point-of-control, even from an easy-to-use Java-based GUI | | Policy-Based Self-Healing | Reduces complexity, implementation time, coding, and support effort through an automation policy that can be shared or cloned across the enterprise | Builds policy more easily using more cloning variables and more predefined and self-configured message rules | | Integration | Integrates with Tivoli products including IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console, IBM Tivoli Business Systems Manager, IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON and IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler | Provides seamless automation of both system and network resources | | mySAP High-Availability Automation | Provides a high availability management solution for mySAP and its related components | Combines the concepts of automation, high availability, and transparent failover |
Product requirements
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z/OS (5694-A01) V1.3, or later
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IBM Tivoli NetView for OS/390 R4 (5697-B82)
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IBM Tivoli NetView for z/OS (5697-ENV) V5.1, or later
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