One of our users has been running McKinney DP Manager for years, but I think that they also have a full blown, more expensive version of the product. We have the cheaper one.
New York City has spent tens of millions of dollars or more on an atrocity known as 'REMEDY', which is basically just a change management, problem reporting, inventory tracking system. This system cannot even replace portions of the prior system that was running (also costing millions of dollars), known as 'IWISE', some of which still has to be run and which had replaced another multi-million dollar system known as 'ASYM' that ran on the mainframe and ate up most of the cpu cycles. These systems do not even come close to the hundreds of millions of dollars spent so far on the Employee Time Management system known as 'CITYTIME' - this atrocity is currently being outed by several expose'ing columnists in the local newspapers and is naturally being touted by the AH$$$ known as the 'MAYOR' as a wonderful enhancement and wise use of taxpayer money which the city is fast running out of. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jim McAlpine Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 12:20 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Any tools for managing z/OS system software products inventory? On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Mark T. Regan, K8MTR < [email protected]> wrote: > For almost 20 years we've been using a homegrown application that runs on > one of our z/VM LPARS to manage the inventory of the various z/OS > system software products we have installed. Since it looks like z/VM may be > going away at my site in a few years, except for the ones used to manage our > various Penguin farms here, we are looking for something to replace it. > Our internal tool has screens that collect information like this from the > system programmer: > > I don't know anything about the product, but mackinney.com has something called DP Manager. Their products are not expensive and their support is very good. *DP Manager* is an integrated CICS-based system that provides the tools needed to manage the DP shop more efficiently. DP Manager provides these tools with four major subsystems: - Hardware Inventory Tracking (HIT) - Software Inventory Tracking (SIT) - Problem Report Administration (PRA) - Change Request Administration (CRA) For shops on IBM maintenance, DP Manager satisfies the record keeping requirement for the Corporate Service Amendment. HIT and SIT keep track of hardware and software. PRA and CRA allow systems, operations and applications staffs to spend time on problem resolution, maintenance, and development rather than trying to keep up with the stack of change requests and problem reports. Jim McAlpine ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
