Cybermation Enhances Performance in OS/390 Environments With Release of ESP Workload Manager 5.2.

MARKHAM, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 22, 1999--

Today the Canadian providers of integrated enterprise systems management solutions, Cybermation Inc., announced the general availability of Version 5 Release 2 of its enterprise batch workload automation and management solution, ESP Workload Manager. A number of significant performance improvements have been incorporated to enhance the management of enterprise workload in OS/390(R) operating system environments. Service bureaus, and other data centers with charge-back systems, will also benefit from new capabilities to more discretely allocate system usage costs.

Customers who have been running early release versions of this GA release have reported significant performance improvements. This release allows them to manage vast workloads across large Parallel Sysplex(R) environments. ESP Workload Manager 5.2 has moved ahead from simple co-existence in OS/390 data centers to now allow customers to exploit the potential benefits within Parallel Sysplex environments.

"Improved resource management, Parallel Sysplex support and improved charge-back functionality makes this release a crucial one for all OS/390 environments. Early users of this new version have received a visible performance upgrade at no additional cost," said Cybermation's chairman and technology architect, Ray Nissan. "And the improved charge-back ability effectively lowers data center overhead, while making client billings more accurate."

There are several significant enhancements in this release of ESP Workload Manager. Run-time resource allocation allows real-time control of the resource requirements for any given workload object, even after an application has been generated. The new resource absorption feature allows high-priority, resource-intensive jobs to accumulate resources as they become available without having to compete for them. Workload can therefore be managed based upon relative job priority and resource availability. The exploitation of IBM's cross-system coupling facility (XCF) visibly improves performance, and allows ESP users to extend full workload management capabilities into large Parallel Sysplex environments. Through the new 'enclave support', each client's work can be treated as a common collection of work whose resource usage can be independently reported, allowing for accurate charge-back.

ESP Workload Manager Version 5 Release 2 is generally available to all Cybermation customers as an enhancement release, covered under their maintenance agreements. It is also available to any other OS/390 site that wants to improve system performance.

About Cybermation

Cybermation Inc. is recognised by its many Fortune 500 customers both as the provider of best-of-breed scheduling and workload management software for distributed computing environments, and for its systems management expertise. Cybermation provides integrated business automation solutions for heterogeneous computing environments, including ESP Workload Manager(R) for enterprise-wide job scheduling and workload management (OS/390(R), UNIX(R), Windows NT(R) and AS/400(R) operating systems), ESP Workstation for enterprise scheduling from a single point of control, ESP Encore(R) for rerun and restart control, ESP Console Manager(R) for console automation, ESP Communication Server(R) for local to remote ESP communications, and DJC(R) for real-time resource control. Cybermation's customers include Hudson's Bay Company, Statistics Canada, and CN Rail in Canada, and Allstate Insurance, Nike, Deere & Co. and GTE Data Services in the USA.