Boole & Babbage Announces MainView Same-day Support for IBM OS/390 At Share Conference.SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 23, 1999-- MainView customers enjoy fully integrated performance management and automation for the standalone enterprise server, plus no additional costs when transitioning to Parallel Sysplex clustering technology Boole & Babbage(R), Inc. (Nasdaq:BOOL), a leader in application service level management for distributed systems, today announced at the SHARE Technical Conference, an international gathering of IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) information technology users, that its MainView(R) performance management and automation solution provides Same-Day Support for IBM(a) OS/390(a) Version 2 Release 7, announced today by IBM. MainView performance management products supporting OS/390 Release 7 include CMF CMF Christian Medical Fellowship CMF Compressed Mortality File CMF Content Management Framework CMF Council of Michigan Foundations CMF Congressional Management Foundation (Washington DC, USA) CMF Code Monétaire et Financier (R) MONITOR 5.2.3, MainView for OS/390 (formerly known as MainView for MVS (Multiple Virtual Storage) Introduced in 1974, the primary operating system used with IBM mainframes (the others are VM and DOS/VSE). MVS is a batch processing-oriented operating system that manages large amounts of memory and disk space. ) 2.4.5, MainView AutoOPERATOR(TM) 5.1 and MainView Explorer 1.1. CMF MONITOR 5.2.3 together with MainView for OS/390 provides Single System Image and Single Point of Control for all OS/390 images and extended online reporting for the Workload Manager and Coupling Facility. MainView for OS/390 is specifically designed to meet the challenges of performance management in the standalone enterprise server environment and in a Parallel Sysplex(a) cluster. MainView AutoOPERATOR 5.1, the automation component of the MainView product family, fully supports OS/390 Release 7, and provides complete automation for all OS/390 middleware such as MQSeries(a), IMS (1) See IP Multimedia Subsystem. (2) (Information Management System) An early IBM hierarchical DBMS for IBM mainframes. IMS was widely implemented throughout the 1970s under MVS and continues to be used under z/OS. (a), CICS (Customer Information Control System) A TP monitor from IBM that was originally developed to provide transaction processing for IBM mainframes. It controls the interaction between applications and users and lets programmers develop screen displays without (a) TS and DB2(a). MainView AutoOPERATOR can immediately and automatically eliminate more than 75% of OS/390 console messages, transforming systems management into simple push-button (electronics) push-button - A roughly fingertip-sized plastic cover attached to a spring-loaded, normally-open switch, which, when pressed, closes the switch. Typical examples are the keys on a computer or calculator keyboard and mouse buttons. operations. MainView Explorer 1.1 enables companies to proactively manage their OS/390 applications from a web-based graphical user interface graphical user interface (GUI) Computer display format that allows the user to select commands, call up files, start programs, and do other routine tasks by using a mouse to point to pictorial symbols (icons) or lists of menu choices on the screen as opposed to having to , transforming the data it collects into easily understood information, accessible from any simple web browser. MainView Explorer further offers seamless interoperability between Boole & Babbage product lines. All of these MainView products as well as MainView for IMS, MainView for CICS, MainView for DB2, MainView Vista Point(TM) and InTune(TM) now offer Same-Day Support for the new release of the IBM operating system. In addition, all MainView products concurrently support Parallel Sysplex, meaning that a company transitioning to a Sysplex environment now or in the future will need no additional Boole & Babbage products nor incur any additional costs. "Boole & Babbage has a long history of providing products compatible with new releases of OS/390, the flagship operating system of the S/390 Parallel Enterprise Server A family of S/390 (System/390) mainframes from IBM that are air cooled and use CMOS-based microprocessor technology (CPU on one chip). Introduced in 1994 as the 9672 series, Parallel Enterprise Servers rapidly replaced the earlier water-cooled, bipolar machines that were considerably ," said Richard Michos, director of ISV (Independent Software Vendor) A person or company that develops software. It implies an organization that specializes in software only and is not part of a computer systems or hardware manufacturer. Marketing and Technical Support for the IBM Server Group. "Products like MainView can offer IBM S/390 customers an alternative for system management and automation capabilities, whether they are operating standalone enterprise servers or IBM Parallel Sysplex In computing, a Parallel Sysplex is a cluster of IBM mainframes acting together in a single system image, usually with z/OS. A Parallel Sysplex combines data sharing (typically using Peer to Peer Remote Copy) and parallel computing to allow a cluster of up to 32 computers to share technology clusters." "OS/390 is the strategic operating system for our MainView customers, so we have continued to make same-day support a top priority, " said Chris O'Connell, senior director MainView product marketing for Boole & Babbage. "We continue to deliver the high-end, integrated performance management and automation solutions that allow our customers an easy transition from a standalone enterprise server environment to a Parallel Sysplex environment. This is one reason we're seeing such a large influx of new customers replacing their existing systems management tools with the MainView solution." About MainView MainView provides application- and workload-focused performance monitoring, helping system programmers to control service levels. MainView online monitoring provides point-and-shoot navigation, concurrent multi-system access, and Single System Image for viewing data from multiple processing regions or a Parallel Sysplex as a single entity. MainView has embedded capabilities that allow it to support and exploit parallel processing environments without modification. MainView products for OS/390, MQSeries, CICS TS, IMS, DBCTL DBCTL Data Base Control and DB2 are fully integrated systems management tools that can concurrently support Parallel Sysplex and standalone enterprise server environments. About Boole & Babbage Boole & Babbage is a worldwide leader in application service level management for distributed systems. Its Enterprise Automation product lines provide a management solution for the entire IT enterprise that encompass systems, applications, middleware, databases and Web technologies. The Boole & Babbage set of solutions is currently used by large manufacturing companies, domestic and international government agencies, the majority of the world's largest financial institutions, airlines, IT outsourcers and utilities to improve service levels and reduce IT management costs. Founded in 1967, Boole & Babbage is the oldest publicly traded independent software vendor in the systems management industry and today is approximately a $225 million company with 930 employees in 43 offices in 26 countries. Corporate headquarters are located in San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. . For more information, visit us on the Web at www.boole.com, or call (800) 544-2152. Boole & Babbage, Inc. is a Tivoli (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :IBM) premiere partner, a Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HWP) premier partner, an IBM (NYSE:IBM) BESTeam Member, and a Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT MSFT Microsoft (stock symbol) MSFT Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore (Italy) MSFT Multi-Stage Fitness Test MSFT Master of Science in Family Therapy MSFT Macalester Students for Fair Trade ) Solutions Developer. Boole & Babbage, CMF and MainView are registered trademarks of Boole & Babbage, Inc. and AutoOPERATOR is a trademark of Boole & Babbage, Inc. (a)Indicates a trademark or registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. All other trademarks used herein are the property of their respective owners. |
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