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Real-Time Systems Management

IBM’s newest z/OS* Management Facility (z/OSMF), announced on July 22, provides system programmers with a modern browser-based solution for systems management.

z/OSMF addresses the needs for a mixed-skilled workforce. It enables system programmers who are new to the mainframe to be productive by providing a modern, browser-based UI; automating tasks, thus reducing the learning curve; and embedding active-user assistance in the UI (e.g., wizards that guide users through tasks, an interactive panel and message help). z/OSMF also makes experienced system programmers more productive by simplifying manual, time-intensive and error-prone tasks. z/OS MF is optional for those who prefer traditional interfaces.

This latest release of z/OSMF, V1.12, provides an updated incident log task, updated configuration assistant for z/OS communications server task, new workload management (policy editor) task and more.

Incident Log

The incident log task helps simplify the capture, packaging and sending of supervisor call dump and related diagnostic data. It displays a consolidated list of all of the incidents in your sysplex. Today, there’s no easy way to view in one place on your z/OS system all of the dump-related incidents across all of the products and components. Now, multiple system programmers can simultaneously log into the same z/OSMF from their respective browsers and problems can be more easily addressed. You can realize tremendous productivity gain with the auto capture of key system logs along with the dump, as well as the send diagnostic data wizard that terses and FTPs the data easily from the browser-based GUI.

It [z/OS MF] can make the day-to-day operations and administration of the mainframe z/OS systems easier to manage for both new and experienced system programmers.

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