Boole & Babbage announces new MainView VistaPoint product to exploit the System/390 Parallel environment.ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 7, 1994--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) Wednesday announced MainView VistaPoint, a new performance management product for the 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) System/390(a) with special significance for the Parallel Sysplex environment. "As Boole & Babbage large systems users transition toward parallel environments, VistaPoint will enable them to exploit the power of the new systems without increasing complexity or staff," said Mike Bunyard, Boole & Babbage director of product marketing. MainView VistaPoint will monitor the performance of application workloads running in 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), DB2(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), TSO (Time Sharing Option) Software that provides interactive communications for IBM's MVS operating system. It allows a user or programmer to launch an application from a terminal and interactively work with it. The TSO counterpart in VM is called CMS. or batch on a single system or across a sysplex. For example, a user running a CICS or DB2 application with VistaPoint can combine transaction and SQL query performance data into a single indicator of workload performance. The product is based on the revolutionary 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) architecture -- designed and developed for simplifying the management and automation of distributed systems. VistaPoint offers a single system image view of an application's performance across multiple subsystems. "With the Single System Image feature of BBI-3, VistaPoint users can take advantage of the power of parallel systems today," Bunyard added. "VistaPoint runs on any processor running MVS/ESA See MVS. MVS/ESA - Multiple Virtual Storage 4.2 and above and helps position users today for workload management in a parallel sysplex environment." VistaPoint is the latest addition of the Boole & Babbage MainView Product Family. All Boole & Babbage MainView products will support and exploit the new MVS/ESA 5.2 release, the new IBM System/390 Parallel environment and related CICS, DB2 and IMS releases. These products are CMF MONITOR; the four MV MANAGER products for MVS, IMS, DBCTL DBCTL Data Base Control and DB2; CICS MANAGER; AutoOPERATOR; MainView Desktop; MainView FOCAL POINT; and DASD (Direct Access Storage Device) Pronounced "daz-dee." A peripheral device that is directly addressable, such as a disk or drum. The term is used in the mainframe world. DASD - Direct-Access Storage Device ADVISOR. VistaPoint availability and pricing VistaPoint will be available in early 1995 with first customer testing in January. Pricing will vary, depending on the processor group. Boole & Babbage is the 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 Hewlett-Packard, IBM and other 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. For more information, contact Boole & Babbage at 800/222-6653. -0- Note to Editors; AutoOPERATOR, BBI, DASD ADVISOR, FOCAL POINT, MainView, MV MANAGER, CICS MANAGER and Mainview VistaPoint are trademarks of Boole & Babbage Inc. Boole & Babbage and CMF are registered trademarks of Boole & Babbage Inc. (a) Indicates trademark or registered trademark of International Business Machines Corp. CONTACT: Boole & Babbage Jeff Yonta, 408/526-3321 |
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