Boole & Babbage provides same-day support for IBM's MVS/ESA 5.2 and IMS/ESA 5.1.SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 30, 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) today announced that its MainView(TM) products now provide same-day support 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) MVS/ESA See MVS. MVS/ESA - Multiple Virtual Storage (a) Version 5.2 and the IMS/ESA(a) Version 5.1 made available today by IBM. 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. performance management products now supporting MVS 5.2 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, MV MANAGER(TM) for MVS 2.2 and AutoOPERATOR(TM) 3.1. MainView products offer concurrent support for Parallel Sysplex and traditional mainframe environments. 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 series records which 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)). CMF MONITOR, along with MV MANAGER for MV 2.2, provide 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 both MVS Version 5.2 and 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. Version 5.1. MV MANAGER for IMS 5.1, which provides performance management for the IMS subsystem and its applications, offers full support for IMS 5.1, including N-Way data sharing. "Boole & Babbage is providing a smooth transition for customers to make the move to Parallel Sysplex and the latest operating system releases by making Plex-ready capabilities available to our 3,000 plus MainView customers," said Mike Bunyard, Boole & Babbage director of product marketing for large systems. "As part of their ongoing maintenance, all MainView customers will receive this support at no extra charge." 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 800/544-2152 -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, 408/526-3321 Internet: sgordon@boole.com |
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