What's New in Mainframe Solutions

Featured Innovations

• Prioritize and resolve service impacts with a mainframe-inclusive, service-aware topology.

• Automatically map and visualize across distributed and mainframe environments and prioritize problems based on their impact to business services.

• Optimize customer experiences and react more nimbly to market changes using key performance indicator (KPI) dashboards to continuously measure and improve the mainframe software delivery lifecycle (SDLC).

• Gain actionable insights to accelerate innovation by pinpointing trends that drive mainframe DevOps adoption and transformation.

• Secure your most privileged users and credentials through Privileged Access Management for any RACF, ACF2, or TSS External Security Managers (ESMs) on the mainframe. 

Accelerate innovation

Modernize and automate mainframe software development and delivery while increasing quality, velocity, and efficiency through a mainframe-inclusive DevOps toolchain. BMC Compuware zAdviser leverages machine learning to continuously measure and improve DevOps processes and outcomes. New KPI dashboards in BMC Compuware zAdviser offer actionable insights that empower development teams to:

• Measure the velocity of the development process from commit to deploy

• Drive the adoption rate and usage of a modern IDE

• Identify the percentage of developers still using manual processes and monitor the percentage of bugs escaping to production

• Optimize customer experiences and react quickly to market changes

Learn more about new KPI dashboards

Harden security

BMC AMI Security automatically detects and responds to mainframe threats, provides real-time visibility when they occur, and creates audit trails to help address growing compliance requirements. New capabilities enable users to:

• Secure their most privileged users and credentials through Privileged Access Management for their preferred ESM

• Detect anomalous activity by privileged users across multiple areas and respond accordingly

• Receive data that is enriched with indicators of compromise and tailored alerts to all ESMs

Empower resilience

BMC AMI Ops transforms mainframe operations with predictive intelligence and automated probable cause analysis to increase uptime and improve availability. New capabilities enable users to:

• Replace manual, time-consuming event correlation with automated mapping and united data from mainframe operations and distributed systems using BMC Helix Discovery for IBM^® z/OS

• Get a complete topology and color-coded map of service issues to drill down into the most critical impacts to services

• Bring mainframe data to more of your enterprise and promote collaboration on incident response by leveraging BMC AMI Ops and BMC AMI Security integrations with Splunk to create a single location for visibility of mainframe operations and security data

Optimize ecosystem

BMC AMI Data ensures infrastructure and its data is always available while empowering DevOps collaboration with advanced database change management. New capabilities in BMC AMI Data empower DBAs and developers to:

• Schedule and run Db2 Utilities when there is an open workload window

• Watch trends in IMS queue activity via BMC Compuware zAdviser dashboards

• Verify IMS checkpoints are present and inserted into programs at appropriate intervals