Product Brief CA OPS/MVS® Event Management and Automation

At a Glance CA OPS/MVS® Event Management and Automation (CA OPS/MVS) gives Key Benefits/Results organizations the ability to simplify mainframe management through • Improves availability of your z/OS policy-based automated policies and the flexibility to implement business- environment, aligns IT to business specific processes. Designed to manage the availability of critical z/ needs and helps manage IT costs OS resources, the solution helps maintain optimal mainframe system • Increases operational efficiencies and conditions by managing daily operations according to defined business reduces TCO through synchronous policies, replacing the need to manually react to console messages and automation of processes write-to-operator messages. CA OPS/MVS proactively monitors and manages started tasks, online applications, subsystems, JES initiators, and • Centralizes and simplifies system management, helping to optimize other z/OS resources. the resources in your mainframe environment Business Challenge • Centralized visibility of automation Today’s dynamic z/OS environment produces literally thousands of event scripts across the entire mainframe messages every day, some critical and some merely noise. To ensure that environment the red-flag messages (those that can impact service level agreements, business processing, and performance of system resources) receive priority Key Features status, enterprises need an advanced automation and management tool • System State Manager: Provides that is available on demand, 24x7. policy-based, cross-system resource management, implementing • TCO: Customers are looking to maximize the cost reduction in their dependencies, high availability, and IT environments by working with systems that provide value across recovery. platforms and maximize efficiency of users and resources. • Mainframe Team Center-Automation: • System availability: Systems are expensive to operate, and they can Display and analyze automation prove to be even more expensive when they are down. Businesses scripts across the entire mainframe expect seamless transition in high-availability environments. environment with a modern user experience. • Scalability: Big data is only getting bigger. Any system management solutions must be scalable across many systems to support the growing • Automated Operations Facility: demand. Detects, evaluates, and responds to a wide range of system activities • Staffing: The skills and knowledge to effectively manage mainframe as they are processed at the z/OS systems is in high demand, and it is becoming more difficult to properly subsystem interface. staff. Everyone is doing more with less. • OPSLOG: Contains repository of all system events, including messages, Solution Overview and consolidates views across multiple systems to support complex- CA OPS/MVS increases z/OS system application and resource availability, wide analysis. and user efficiency through automation. It helps minimize system downtime, improve business processes, elevate levels of productivity, and • Service Management Integration: REXX interface to open incident reduce operating costs. It offers powerful capabilities that enable users to tickets with market leading service more reliably analyze system events and status and automate operations. management products and allow for quick migration between products. CA OPS/MVS provides a comprehensive audit trail of automation and system activities, robust system and resource state management, proactive • Mainframe Topology: Automatic monitoring and management of started tasks, online applications, discovery of mainframe resources and subsystems, JES initiators, and other z/OS resources. An integral part how they are connected.

CA OPS/MVS Event Management and Automation Product Brief

Solution Overview (cont.) Access to OPS/MVS Scripts Across Your Entire Mainframe Complex—Graphically Displaying Which Scripts are Referenced of CA Mainframe Operations Intelligence, CA OPS/ Within the Selected Script MVS helps manage critical resources by status across systems and includes automated applications that simplify the deployment of powerful and complex automation to manage the environment. In addition, CA OPS/MVS is a critical component for automating the disaster recovery process, ensuring high availability and end-to-end automation.

Critical Differentiators CA OPS/MVS a recognized leader in z/OS automation. It helps maximize system availability, improve efficiency, reduce errors, reduce downtime, and increase productivity. Its robust functionality provides unlimited • Inbound RESTful Web services: This feature extends scalability to manage the smallest to the largest and the interoperability of CA OPS/MVS, enabling most complex data centers. triggering of automation and event management, and querying of gathered information from non-z/OS • Modern user interface: Display and analyze rules across the entire mainframe environment. It allows environments. for quick identification of rule distribution and • Zowe CLI support: Use industry supported interfaces interconnectivity. to issue commands and get results remotely from the users desktop. • Policy-based resource management: System resources can be managed by Broadcom, best • Dynamic mainframe topology discovery: practices, or by customer-specific requirements to Automatically discover resources executing on each enable tailorable sophistication. system and display how they are connected to form business applications using a modern interface on z/ • Synchronous multiple address spaces: Use multiple address spaces to process events in parallel in the OS. address spaces that they occur. • REXX functions: An extensive library of special Related Products/Solutions functions enables you to detect address space • CA Automation Point™ and device availability, collect information on JES2, • CA Mainframe Connector for Linux on System z Sysplex and system resources, and interoperate with other CA products. • CA NetMaster® Network Management • Comprehensive Sysplex support: CA OPS/MVS • CA SYSVIEW® Performance Management manages events from your Sysplex facilities and Sysplex-specific resources in order to maintain high availability. For more information, please visit ca.com/ opsmvs. • Hardware services: CA OPS/MVS provides Hardware Management Console (HMC) automation functions including the capture of hardware events into rules processing and the ability to issue hardware commands.

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