IBM Z Service Automation Suite
Automate and control a large range of system elements spanning both the hardware and software resources of enterprises in a sysplex
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What IBM Z Service Automation Suite can do for your business

IBM Z® Service Automation Suite offers a single point of control for a broad range of systems management functions. The suite provides the visibility, control, and automation of a large range of system elements spanning both the hardware and software resources of enterprises in a sysplex. It includes the automation, network management, and scheduling capabilities that you need to address business agility on IBM Z. The suite is a simply priced, easy-to-order package of the following products:
- IBM Z System Automation
- IBM Z NetView
- IBM Z Workload Scheduler
- IBM Service Management Unite
- IBM Z ChatOps
- IBM Z Common Data Provider with Kafka

Benefits
Consolidate views for quick assessment

Simplify the operation of complex workloads with a customizable management dashboard bringing mainframe management information and tasks from disparate sources into a single environment.

Automate network and systems management

Completely and easily manage your network with enhanced enterprise integration, greater business agility, and increased IT availability.

Collaborative problem resolution

Reduce problem resolution time by improving cross-team collaboration enabling ChatOps tool integrated into Slack®, Microsoft® Teams™, or Mattermost®.

Optimize efficiency and availability

Get compelling management capabilities through automation and scheduling integration for improved business resilience. Reduce outages and delays as well as meantime to correction of complex problems.

Improve resource utilization

Automate the execution of batch and near real-time workloads and activities that are running in support of business services, thus improving personnel interaction for better synergy and efficiency.

Stream data using a common event architecture

Leverage the embedded event architecture to stream data to a variety of endpoints, such as analytics engines or web-based dashboards.

Key features of IBM Z Service Automation Suite
Management dashboards

IBM Service Management Unite is a web-based and highly customizable dashboard user interface that brings mainframe management information and tasks from disparate sources into a single environment. It visualizes and consolidates information from your automation, monitoring, network management, and scheduling environment, in a single interface enabling next-gen IBM Z operators to quickly identify, isolate and resolve problems. You can also interact directly with the systems, issuing commands and viewing results without going to a different console.

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Network and systems management

IBM Z NetView® provides automation and network and systems management to address your requirements for business agility on IBM Z. Key capabilities and advanced functions include networking and automation, enhanced enterprise integration, customer time-to-value, and ease of use.

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Integrates with Z ChatOps

ChatOps is a model that integrates people, tools and processes into a collaboration platform so that teams can efficiently communicate and easily manage the flow of their work. IBM Z ChatOps provides support for Z environments by including a chatbot that gives users access to information from Z systems management tools directly into Slack®, Microsoft® Teams™, or Mattermost®. Easily notify the IT operations team about alerts from IBM Z applications. ChatOps also integrates with IBM Service Management Unite for broad access to IBM Z data to enable chat users to drill-down into web-based dashboards with additional information. With Z ChatOps, accelerate incident resolution and enable faster onboarding of next-gen IBM Z operators.

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Workload scheduling

IBM Z Workload Scheduler provides the infrastructure to help automate the execution of batch and near real-time workloads and activities that are running in support of business services.

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System automation

IBM Z System Automation provides a policy-based, self-healing, high-availability solution to optimize efficiency and availability of critical systems and applications. It is designed to reduce administrative and operational tasks, customization and programming effort, and automation implementation time and costs associated with Parallel Sysplex® automation and policy-based automation.

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Increased efficiency

The suite will enable you to improve resource utilization and personnel interaction for better synergy and efficiency. You will also be able to reduce outages, delays and the meantime to the correction of complex problems.

Event Integrations

IBM Z Common Data Provider with Kafka enables the following integrations:

  • Stream IBM Z Workload Scheduler data and distribute it to a variety of analytics engines, such as Splunk, IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics, or Elasticsearch
  • IBM Z System Automation can use the Kafka infrastructure to distribute events to IBM Service Management Unite and other consumers
Resources IBM Z System Automation

IBM System Automation for z/OS in IBM Knowledge Center.

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IBM Z NetView documentation

IBM Z NetView information in IBM Knowledge Center

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IBM Z Workload Scheduler

IBM Z Workload Scheduler in IBM Knowledge Center.

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IBM Service Management Unite

IBM Service Management Unite in IBM Knowledge Center

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