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Realize the full potential of your CICS systems and increase the value of your investment with a convenient way to purchase IBM CICS Tools for z/OS
IBM® CICS® Optimization Solution Pack for z/OS® gives you a convenient way to purchase IBM CICS Tools for z/OS at a reduced, inclusive price. It helps you quickly achieve performance tuning of CICS systems and applications to increase the value of your investments in CICS products. The pack includes IBM CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS, IBM CICS Deployment Assistant for z/OS, IBM CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS and IBM CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS, plus integrated plug-ins for IBM CICS Explorer that simplify use for new staff and increase the productivity of experienced users.
Benefits
| Simplify procurement | Purchase IBM CICS Tools for z/OS in a convenient package at a reduced, inclusive price that recognizes previous purchases and includes a reduction in the aggregate product price. |
| Gain valuable insight into CICS activity | Combine CICS tools for a wealth of insight into activity within CICS to help reduce CPU consumption, improve response times, plan capacity and reduce administrative costs. |
| Increase productivity | Simplify use for new staff and increase the productivity of experienced users with plug-ins that deliver an integrated solution for all technical roles in your enterprise. |
| Enhance DevOps collaboration | Adopt a collaborative DevOps approach by helping your teams work more closely together to plan, design, build, test, deploy, manage and optimize CICS applications. |
| Optimize for future demands | Prepare now for the growth of mobile and service-enabled workloads. Take advantage of the latest capabilities in the CICS tools to make the most of your IBM Z® systems investment. |
IBM CICS Optimization Solution Pack key features
| Convenient, cost-effective purchase option | Purchase multiple key products under a single product ID to simplify procurement. Inclusive pricing recognizes previous purchases and includes a reduction in the aggregate product price. |
| Automated deployment processes | Create an effective DevOps pipeline by automating your deployment process based on the outcomes of your process flow. CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS allows you to customize and transform attributes, compare system definitions to highlight differences easily across environments and capture change package creator ID for enhanced audit capabilities. |
| CICS environment topology management |
Use the included IBM CICS Deployment Assistant for z/OS to better understand and visualize your CICS environment topology. Create, customize and discard CICS regions to enable elastic scaling and the creation of test regions based on production systems. These processes can be integrated within your automated DevOps pipeline using new API commands and extension points.
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| Complementary tools | Use the complementary tools to make analysis and optimization of CICS systems and applications faster and easier. |
| CICS application relationships and dependencies management |
Understand CICS® application relationships and dependencies with the included IBM CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS®. Scenario-based collections allow you to easily collect information to control and manage changes to your business applications.
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| Cloud enablement to improve efficiency | Reduce costs and improve operational efficiency with cloud enablement capabilities such as policies and application multi-versioning. Use IBM CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS to discover entry points and dependencies, create required CICS bundles and deploy them as a CICS cloud application. |
| Historical performance reporting and analysis |
Enable historical performance reporting and analysis of CICS systems and applications, identification of performance problems, trend analysis and capacity planning with IBM CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS. Capabilities include predefined report sets based on performance problem or project scenarios, batch reporting for complex statistics data and searchable report forms.
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