Boole & Babbage announces immediate availability of CMF MONITOR 5.2; new release provides high performance, low-cost alternative to IBM's RMF.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 10, 1995--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), a provider of enterprise automation solutions for distributed computing (1) The use of multiple computers networked throughout a wide geographical area, or the world via the Internet, in order to solve a single problem. See grid computing. (2) The use of multiple computers in an enterprise rather than one centralized system. , today announced immediate availability of 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. An 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. performance monitoring software product, CMF is the only rival to the widely installed 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) (1) 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 ) and offers a powerful alternative to managing MVS systems in a Parallel Sysplex IBM's System/390 clustering architecture. It allows multiple System/390 computers to work together as a single system. It supports data sharing with guaranteed integrity, extensive resource sharing and sophisticated workload balancing. environment as well as the traditional Mainframe environment. CMF MONITOR 5.2, a component of the MainView(TM) for MVS solution, is built on 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. Facility (BBI BBI Blockbuster Inc. (stock symbol) BBI Berlin Brandenburg International (Airport) BBI Broadband-Interactive BBI Browser-Based Interface BBI Best Brains Inc. (TM)) architecture -- the same technology selected by IBM for its CICSPlex System Manager (CICSPlex SM) product. BBI provides CMF MONITOR with the strategic advantages of Single System Image, simultaneous multi-system display, data summarization and SQL-like data filtering. CMF MONITOR furnishes a comprehensive array of views and functions to help operators and systems programmers pinpoint workload bottlenecks and resource contentions in their MVS enterprises. The Boole & Babbage CMF MONITOR offers more than 40 comprehensive Single System Image views for MVS Version 4 or above. IBM's RMF, on the other hand, is limited to only three such displays and furnishes those only on MVS Version 5 systems. Furthermore, while CMF MONITOR offers a complete suite of Coupling Facility The hardware and software that turns an IBM mainframe Base Sysplex system into a Parallel Sysplex. It is made up of special microcode built into the machine, and the CFCC operating system (Coupling Facility Control Code). displays for viewing online performance data, RMF provides no such views. "This release strengthens our competitive advantage over RMF," said Mike Bunyard, director of large systems product marketing for Boole & Babbage. "Single System Image, for example, is extremely important to customers moving towards a Parallel Sysplex environment because the number of objects to manage multiplies exponentially with such a move. Users will need to group systems, workloads, resources and jobs into Single System Images to effectively monitor them, rather than attempt to monitor them individually." "CMF MONITOR 5.2 provides our shop with features and facilities that far exceed RMF's limits," said David Lipson, senior MVS operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. specialist for Reliance Insurance Co. "We have two MVS LPARs, and with CMF MONITOR Online's Single System Image function, we can view information from both systems in one display window. Additionally, RMF/SMF records are truly compatible, and CMF's records provide data that would take hours to gather using other products. We've also found that CMF's batch reports provide immediate information to our performance staff that is not as easily available using RMF reports." This announcement highlights the Boole & Babbage commitment to same-day support for IBM MVS/ESA See MVS. MVS/ESA - Multiple Virtual Storage 5.2 and RMF 5.2 scheduled to be available later this year. Boole & Babbage is a worldwide leader in enterprise automation software for distributed systems. The company is committed to supporting open systems and the growing client/server market to help IS organizations reduce costs and increase systems availability. Boole & Babbage maintains strategic alliances with industry leaders to ensure its customers the most powerful, efficient solutions. Founded in 1967, Boole & Babbage sells more than 40 products in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia and Latin America. -0- Product Comparison Note: Boole & Babbage cites the features and functionality of CMF MONITOR, demonstrated in the following chart, to illustrate its strength as an RMF competitor: -0- Feature or Function RMF CMF Produces Type 70-79 SMF records X X CPU, channel, device and storage reports X X Workload Manager and Coupling Facility reports X X Job, resource and workload displays X X Additional user records for CSA, cache, TSO activity and head movement X Integrated cache reports X Simultaneously view multiple systems on one screen X Sophisticated point-and-shoot technology X Menu-driven customization of all online views X Historical recording for all online views X Single System Image support for all views X Coupling Facility online views X Online data set activity view X Shared devices online display X Optional workstation GUI X-0- Note to Editors: Boole & Babbage and CMF are registered trademarks of Boole & Babbage Inc. BBI and MainView are trademarks of Boole & Babbage Inc. All other trademarks used herein are the property of their respective owners. (1) Indicates a trademark or registered trademark of International Business Machines Corp. CONTACT: The Weber Group Sharon Zovod or Nancy Donegan, 415/325-8300 |
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