Lizette (et al): While the SEA and ASG products are good, they are not complete. There is a suite of products from RES-IT US (www.res-it.com) that goes considerably further. Their suite includes access to the program source so that you wil be assured of accuracy across the board. It can also tell you about files that are not actually used (they may be input to a specific program or programs, but the resultant data is never used anywhere, or, a given file may be referenced, but never written to our updated, or, a JCL object (JOB or PROC level) may be found in the production libraries but they ave never executed, or, a given Job is ran on a regular basis, but the output is never viewed or used, etc. Regarding the ASG product, it was originally from DSSI (no longer in existence) and, I was the senior product support person for DSSI for a number of years.
I have been in the JCL vendor automation arena for 30 years and am knowledgeable of all the products out there. The RES Suite has no single competitor. In order to receive the benefits of the RES Suite from any competitor, a site would have to purchase 2 or 3 products, possibly from multiple vendors, to get even close and most likely, would still not get the full value and robustness available from the RES Suite. If anyone has any questions of me, please feel free to drop me an email. With Regards, Mitch McCluhan -----Original Message----- From: Lizette Koehler <[email protected]> To: IBM-MAIN <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, Jun 28, 2012 12:05 pm Subject: Re: Looking for a product > Hi everyone, We are looking for a software product that can scan our JCL libraries and roduce a list of ALL input files. Does anyone know of such a product. We use to have a product called Sunrise from Panorama Software that I think did omething pretty close. If anyone familiar with that product and know if it is till around? I couldn't find anything when I googled it, so the name may have hanged and/or the company was bought out. There is SEA Software's JCLPLUS here is ASG Software's ProJCL or INFO/X And there are probably others. If you have CA-ESP, there might be some resport process you can use for executed obs. If you have a source change management system (Changeman or Endevor) you can robably do something with that as well. izette ---------------------------------------------------------------------- or IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, end email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
