On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:07:54 -0700, 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: <screen_data_snipped> >> > >Internally we may look at moving the data into a DB2 database on MVS and put a web front-end on it and use it that way. So, we are looking for something that would be low cost and follows the KISS way of doing things. > > >Thanks, > > >Mark T. Regan, K8MTR, <>< >CTO1 USNR-Retired (1969-1991) > IBM / Tivoli acquired SoftAudit which had some years back started moving away from "systems" to more "enterprise application" asset discovery, with various OPEN hooks and an SMF data-capture type agent running on z/OS. Most any called, linked program is revealed in the generated data, with job, task, transaction, application-environment identification data. For many years, SoftAudit kept updated "systems" software identification inventory data and kept their clients aware of the mainframe software side -- asking an enterprise to take the time to inventory, document, estimate corporate value and/or business relevance, and determining age or whether source code exists, can be quite an undertaking. CA has entered this space in the past year with its own z/OS discovery agent CA CMDB Connector for z/OS, feeding this data to the more encompassing EITM framework for asset tracking, management, cost recovery/allocation, and enterprise resource management. Their addition of a z/OS agent filled a much-labored gap, although I don't have first-hand information about its merits. Another software product like SoftAudit I have heard about is P-Tracker, from vendor ESAI - link http://esaigroup.com/products/ptracker.htm and it also generates log information about program-level accesses. Scott Barry SBBWorks, Inc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
