I was the former President of CIMS Lab, Inc. which owned DCAF before it was acquired by IBM.
DCAF was a capacity planning software product from System Software Alternatives in the early 1990's. I think it stood for Data Center Automation Facility but I wouldn't bet on it. It was written mostly by Russ Hatler who is a brilliant Assembler Coder, friend, and character. http://russellhatler.com/books/ I met Russ in about 1990 because I had an opportunity to replace MICS at Rolm in San Jose. The problem was that my CIMS Chargeback System only did chargeback and MICS did both Chargeback and Capacity Planning. Fortunately for us, Rolm at that time only had few Record Type 70 reports that we had to emulate and DCAF was up to the task. We partnered with Russ and since CIMS Chargeback could emulate MICS Chargeback, we won the deal. In 1995, CIMS was acquired by PLATINUM technology, Inc. I was VP of the "CIMS Lab" and convinced Flip to acquire SSA and DCAF. In 2001, we did a buyout from PLATINUM and escaped as CIMS Lab, Inc. with both CIMS and DCAF and a UNIX chargeback system called ARSAP from GEJAC right before CA took out PLATINUM. We built the companies up again and then sold them to IBM in 2006. IBM canceled DCAF shortly thereafter. CIMS and ARSAP are now the IBM Smart Cloud Cost Manager or something like that. Anyway, I am now involved with www.pacsys.com This product and/or a combination of their products should be able to help replace DCAF. http://www.pacsys.com/smf/ If I can be of any further assistance please contact me off list at: [email protected] <[email protected]> 916.947.1033 On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 5:14 PM, Lizette Koehler <[email protected]> wrote: > What id DCAF and who is/was the vendor? > > I thought maybe Coffee? > Lizette > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > > Behalf Of gsg > > Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2015 4:48 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Performance and capacity tools > > > > Looking for a alternative to the expensive Performance and Capacity > tools out there. > > Any recommendations? > > > > Also, looking for a DCAF replacement tool. I believe the DCAF product > went byebye, > > so what is everyone using now? > > > > Anything on CBT that can help? > > > > TIA > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send 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
