Boole & Babbage conquers barriers to MVS application monitoring with MainView VistaPoint; new product gives mainframe users unique composite views of application service goals across multiple systems.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)--July 17, 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 leader in enterprise automation solutions for distributed systems Distributed systems (computers) A distributed system consists of a collection of autonomous computers linked by a computer network and equipped with distributed system software. , today announced availability of MainView VistaPoint, a new product that monitors applications across an entire 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. enterprise and succinctly reports on overall application or workload performance. "It's now commonplace for a corporate IS organization to run multiple versions of MVS and its relevant subsystems," said Mike Bunyard, senior marketing director, large systems, for Boole & Babbage. "This, along with the advent of IBM's new parallel processing parallel processing, the concurrent or simultaneous execution of two or more parts of a single computer program, at speeds far exceeding those of a conventional computer. technology, fuels the need for the sophisticated capabilities of MainView VistaPoint to easily determine if workload objectives are being met." VistaPoint tracks and consolidates an application's performance throughout its execution path and presents a composite view based on service goals. A VistaPoint user can see the application's performance at a glance on hierarchical displays and be linked directly to related MainView performance managers when a more detailed analysis is desired. Early users of VistaPoint comment on the product's ability to bring all resources into a single MVS enterprisewide view to monitor application performance. One customer, Robert Appelbaum, senior MVS systems programmer for Big B Stores in Alabama, stated, "My focus isn't on a specific subsystem. I need to pull all subsystems together to find out whether applications are meeting their batch and/or online workload objectives. With VistaPoint, I get one centralized view of application performance." The MainView solution is a highly integrated family of products providing mainframe system performance monitoring, management and automation through a common window interface. MainView products upport Parallel Sysplex and traditional MVS environments, as well as multiple subsystem releases, concurrently. MainView VistaPoint provides a Single System Image view of the performance of MVS, 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 , DB2, 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. , 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 application workloads running across multiple subsystems and MVS images. Availability and Pricing MainView VistaPoint is available in August 1995 and pricing starts at $17,000. 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 (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) and other industry leaders to ensure its customers with 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 800/544-2152. -0- Note to Editors: Boole & Babbage is a registered trademark of Boole & Babbage Inc. MainView and VistaPoint are trademarks of Boole & Babbage Inc. CONTACT: Boole & Babbage Inc. Shelly Gordon, 408/526-3430 or sgordon@boole.com |
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