Boole & Babbage MainView Products Provide Same-Day Support for IBM OS/390 V1.1; Only Solutions Available to Concurrently Support Both Parallel Sysplex and Traditional Mainframes.SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 29, 1996--Boole & Babbage, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :BOOL), the leader in Enterprise Automation solutions for managing distributed systems, today announced that its MainView performance management and automation products provide same-day support for 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) (a) OS/390 Version 1.1, made available today by IBM. MainView products supporting OS/390 v1.1 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 MONITOR 5.2, MV MANAGER 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. 2.2, AutoOPERATOR 3.1 and MainView Desktop 1.3. MainView products are the only fully integrated systems management tools available today that offer concurrent support for Parallel Sysplex and traditional mainframe environments, as well as multiple subsystem releases. "We applaud IBM's direction with OS/390, insofar in·so·far adv. To such an extent. Adv. 1. insofar - to the degree or extent that; "insofar as it can be ascertained, the horse lung is comparable to that of man"; "so far as it is reasonably practical he should practice as it is designed to reduce customers' costs by cutting down the time and effort required to install new levels of IBM software," said Mike Bunyard, Boole & Babbage senior director, large systems marketing. "We are currently working with IBM to provide these same benefits to our MainView customers through optional inclusion in extended OS/390 product offerings." CMF MONITOR 5.2 creates SMF (1) (Standard Messaging Format) An electronic mail format for Novell's MHS messaging system. The application puts the data into this format in order to send an e-mail message. type 70-79 records that are identical to IBM's Resource Measurement Facility (RMF RMF Resource Measurement Facility RMF Rich Music Format RMF René Moawad Foundation (Hazmieh, Lebanon) RMF Rich Map Format (Worldcraft Half-Life mapping tool) RMF Relativistic Mean Field (a)). In addition, CMF MONITOR provides more than 20 unique productivity enhancements over RMF. Together with MV MANAGER for MVS, this solution provides Single System Image support and extended online reporting for the Workload Manager and Coupling Facility. AutoOPERATOR 3.1, the automation component of the MainView product family, is fully integrated with OS/390 v1.1. MainView Desktop, a workstation-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 , gives users a flexible alternative for generating reports, charts and graphs for more efficient resource usage. MainView Desktop is available for both Windows and OS/2. The MainView family of products provides large systems performance monitoring, management and automation and is an integral component of the Boole & Babbage Enterprise Automation suite. MainView products share the Boole & Babbage Intercommunication in·ter·com·mu·ni·cate intr.v. in·ter·com·mu·ni·cat·ed, in·ter·com·mu·ni·cat·ing, in·ter·com·mu·ni·cates 1. To communicate with each other. 2. To be connected or adjoined, as rooms or passages. (BBI BBI Blockbuster Inc. (stock symbol) BBI Berlin Brandenburg International (Airport) BBI Broadband-Interactive BBI Browser-Based Interface BBI Best Brains Inc. ) architecture. This advanced architecture brings a common window interface, efficiency in multisystem information gathering and flexible management capabilities to the MainView solution. Boole & Babbage is the worldwide leader in Enterprise Automation solutions for managing distributed systems. The company works in partnership with customers to boost systems availability, reduce overall computing costs and strategically automate the entire IT enterprise. Through advanced interoperability, its proven solutions let customers gain proactive control of their distributed computing environments -- from mainframe to desktop and legacy to client/server. Boole & Babbage products complement Help Desk, data center operations, network and systems administration and storage management. Boole & Babbage has 42 offices in 26 countries, including three data centers and four development labs. The company's products are available through direct channels and a worldwide network of distributors and resellers. -0- Note to Editors: AutoOPERATOR, MainView and MV MANAGER are trademarks of Boole & Babbage, Inc. Boole & Babbage and CMF are registered trademarks of Boole & Babbage, Inc. (a) Indicates a trademark or registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. CONTACT: Boole & Babbage, Inc. Shelly Gordon, 408/526-3430 sgordon@boole.com http://www.boole.com |
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