Vision Director 8.0. Accelerate Performance, Automate Optimization for your IBM i Environments. Name Title

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1 Vision Director 8.0 Accelerate Performance, Automate Optimization for your IBM i Environments Name Title Leaders Have Vision visionsolutions.com 1 visionsolutions.com 1

2 The Value of Systems Optimization The difference in cost between an unmanaged and a well-managed computer system can be as much as 36 percent. Leaders Have Vision visionsolutions.com 2 visionsolutions.com 2

3 Accelerate Performance, Automate Optimization Analyze Information Report & Recommend Gather Information Take Action Stay in Control! Proactively, Monitor, Manage & Optimize Your IBM i Servers Leaders Have Vision visionsolutions.com 3 visionsolutions.com 3

4 Improve Performance, Automate Administration, Reduce Costs Innovative, Automated Systems Management Advanced system optimization without introducing downtime Improve efficiency for novice and experienced administrators Maximize Storage Utilization Clean and optimize DASD, without additional downtime Proactively manage and intelligently plan for additional DASD Improve Application Performance Improve batch & interactive performance Easily investigate and take action to resolve application and database problems Enhance System Resilience Reduce Planned Downtime Improve Hardware and Application Upgrades (migrate only necessary data) Improve HA and DR (replicate only necessary data) Monitor, Manage and Report Meet Service Level Agreements Health Dashboard Director s Health Report demonstrate SLA compliance Leaders Have Vision visionsolutions.com 4 visionsolutions.com 4

5 Vision Director & Vision Director Enterprise RWM - Vision RWA Mirrored - Utility Formerly known as itera RWA. Now included with Vision Director Enterprise v8.0 at no extra cost. Still available as a stand-alone utility. Can be added to Vision Director v8.0 at extra cost. Alternative file re-organization approach to the existing RIP utility. RWM has advantages in ultra high transaction volume environments New! DSH health dashboard CLN clean-up ARC archiving JBT job tracking RWM RWA mirrored IFS Integrated File system SEC security Vision Director v8.0 Vision Director v8.0 offering comprises of a subset of utilities which have been identified as most essential for SMBs. These utilities can be pre-configured by a support provider and help keep system(s) optimized automatically. Minimal in-house technical knowledge required. Vision Director v8.0 is priced significantly lower than Enterprise and therefore offers an ROI advantage for SMBs EXP exit point control PGM program & performance ISR iscore report TSK task scheduler CEQ customized enquiries JOB active job analysis PER performance SPL spool file management SAV save & restore ACG Job accounting SPA Real-time break down of spools DXR Dynamic Cross Ref. OPR operations DOM domains & change history EVT event manager OPT optimization CFG configuration Vision Director Enterprise v8.0 The full set of utilities including on-going additions of advanced utilities driven by the worlds largest System i users aimed at larger enterprises with inhouse technical resource and advanced system optimization needs. Vision Director v6.4, v7.0 & v7.1 customers who upgrade to v8.0 automatically qualify for Vision Director Enterprise at no extra cost CAL calendar & schedule RIP RWA in place OBJ object enquiries TMP temporary storage monitor FIL file enquiries HLR Health Report Leaders Have Vision visionsolutions.com 5 visionsolutions.com 5

6 Vision iscore Report New! Download and run with no license key Quickly estimates health score of a system and optimization potential Report can be sent back to your BP for more detailed analysis. No IBM i technical expertise required Self evaluate your systems and LPARs Rapid evaluation of systems not yet running Vision Director Leaders Have Vision visionsolutions.com 6 visionsolutions.com 6

7 Innovative, Automated Systems Management Leaders Have Vision visionsolutions.com 7 visionsolutions.com 7

8 Save Operator and Management Time Data collection and object monitoring are fully automatic Managers save time on scheduling and corrective action Factory defaults based on years of experience Runs in the background 24x7x365 Built-in exception rules Executes tasks that many operators don t have access to Executes tasks that many operators don t have time for Does not lock objects Consume very limited resources Easily tuned parameters provide flexibility Director contains every task a systems manager is required to execute or comment on News/400 Leaders Have Vision visionsolutions.com 8 visionsolutions.com 8

9 Improve Efficiency Without Director Manual ad-hoc maintenance procedures can introduce risks to your systems and data Manual maintenance procedures are rarely tested on multiple IBM i versions and systems Operators rarely have access to Rochester technical staff to help understand complex maintenance procedures Operators with unrestricted access to the command line can accidentally cause damage With Director Director helps eliminate these risks because maintenance procedures are robust. Director is subject to high level of testing and quality control on multiple systems and IBM i versions Vision works closely with technical staff at Rochester to ensure maintenance recommendations are correctly implemented Director helps eliminate the need for unrestricted access to the command line Leaders Have Vision visionsolutions.com 9 visionsolutions.com 9

10 Improve System Performance Database runs more efficiently IBM i runs more efficiently Less disk space consumed Benefits Improved response times Faster lookup and update Faster batch run time Faster bulk read Faster tape backups Less to backup to tape Lower latency for High Availability Optimize before you mirror Recommended for every IBM i environment Leaders Have Vision visionsolutions.com 10 visionsolutions.com 10

11 Optimize Storage Leaders Have Vision visionsolutions.com 11 visionsolutions.com 11

12 Improve DASD Utilization 20% Free Space Before Director 30% Physical Files After Director 27% Physical Files 5% IFS 39% Free Space 5% OS/400 10% Objects 12% Logical Files 10% Programs 20% Logical Files 5% IFS 5% OS/400 8% Objects 4% Programs Typical Disk Reduction By Object Type Physical Files 18% Logical Files Programs Objects 20% 40% 60% Maximize your disk investment! Leaders Have Vision visionsolutions.com 12 visionsolutions.com 12

13 Vision Director Temporary Storage Monitor New! Real time monitoring of temp storage. Identify performance bottlenecks before they become a problem Sends alerts to operators. Keeps history by user, job and program. Possible to analyze by domain E.g. BPCS Real-time monitoring of temp storage. Temp storage impacts performance. Gathers and maintains history by user/job TMP temporary storage monitor Leaders Have Vision visionsolutions.com 13 visionsolutions.com 13

14 Enhance System Resilience Leaders Have Vision visionsolutions.com 14 visionsolutions.com 14

15 Replicate, Manage & Migrate Only Necessary Data Reduce Planned Downtime Improve HA & DR, System & Application Upgrades Cause of Down-Time Solution Technology Unplanned Planned 20% Disaster Unplanned event Daily backup to tape Application maintenance Hardware maintenance High Availability itera HA MIMIX HA ORION Solutions 80% IBM i Housekeeping Database housekeeping File re-organization While-Active Maintenance Object analysis Archiving While-Active Active-Maintenance reduces planned downtime Leaders Have Vision visionsolutions.com 15 visionsolutions.com 15

16 Monitor, Manage and Report Leaders Have Vision visionsolutions.com 16 visionsolutions.com 16

17 Vision Director Health Dashboard Current iscore Graphical view of most critical system information. Real time information in an easy to digest form Portlet based UI allows sticky view (custom view) Technical expertise not required Portlets can be sized and moved Rapid drill down to more detail by clicking on each portlet All new real-time graphical dashboard showing system status. Portlets include overall health score, optimization history much more drill down to get more detail. DSH health dashboard Leaders Have Vision visionsolutions.com 17 visionsolutions.com 17

18 Vision Director Health Report full report is over 20 pages. Detailed report summarizing full analysis of system Easily compare system snapshots and quickly see emerging trends Over 70 GUI-based reports with flexible sorting and display capabilities Presented in an easy to read form with graphs, tables and text (xls or pdf) Great for executive updates Helps support SLAs Huge time saving HLT health reports Leaders Have Vision visionsolutions.com 18 visionsolutions.com 18

19 Vision Director Job Accounting Comprehensive resource accounting and costing for the purposes of cross billing Allows you to define sites and divisions and capture resource usage How much, storage, CPU, memory Set up a pricing table More functional than many competitors stand alone offerings and is included with Vision Director Enterprise Create a cross-charge sheet to bill for resources used ACG Job accounting Leaders Have Vision visionsolutions.com 19 visionsolutions.com 19

20 Vision Director - Event Manager User configures which events are monitored. E.g. ASP growth, CPU usage, held jobs more Looks for events that exceed a threshold or match a status or predicts rapid growth Sends alert and includes supporting data and other info to allow a good and fast decisions Multiple escalation levels Can hold jobs automatically Automatically issues informative (graphical) alert s based on thresholds and growth rates of user selected resources EVT event manager Leaders Have Vision visionsolutions.com 20 visionsolutions.com 20

21 Vision Director - RWA Mirrored* Always Active 1 Production Physical File File is journaled and a copy (with indexes) is made. The copy re-organizes the data and removes Deleted records. It s kept in sync. Mirrored copy Solves the limitations of IBM RGZPFM by creating a mirrored copy of the file. First a copy of the file and indexes is made with users online. During the copy data is reorganized and deleted records don t get copied. Active records Deleted records Duplicate copy of file 2 When users off the file and indexes are swapped Back to production (doesn t introduce much down time) The copy remains synchronized with production using journal based mirroring. When users are off-line file and indexes get swapped back to production (doesn t take long) Allows large always active files to be re-organized using a copy and mirror technique * formerly itera RWA RWM RWA mirrored Leaders Have Vision visionsolutions.com 21 visionsolutions.com 21

22 Vision Director - RWA In Place Deleted records get shuffled to 1 the bottom of the file while users stay on line Done over time you can start and stop this Production Physical File Works directly on the live file in place Always Active First deleted records get shuffled to the bottom over time, users stay on line. Shuffle can be started and stopped as you wish. Active records Deleted records 2 Deleted records get truncated Users off for a few minutes When shuffle is done you schedule a truncate with users off-line (takes a few minutes only) Allows large always active files to be re-organized using a shuffle in-place technique RIP RWA in place Leaders Have Vision visionsolutions.com 22 visionsolutions.com 22

23 Vision Director - Spool File Analysis Builds real-time repository of spool file (reporting) info. across users and account codes. Allows historical analysis of spool files by account, domain, output queue, spool size, user Analyze spool growth and set thresholds Automatically gathers and builds a real time repository of information about spool files & allows analysis SPA Real-time break down of spools Leaders Have Vision visionsolutions.com 23 visionsolutions.com 23

24 Vision Director - Clean-Up Cleans: system journals, distribution logs, out queues, job message queues, problem logs, history logs more Integrated with TSK task scheduler to run autonomically at off peak times View history of cleanup in a portlet in real time Set policy and forget it View history in portlet Makes performance predictions Collection of utilities which automatically perform a range of important housekeeping tasks. CLN clean-up Leaders Have Vision visionsolutions.com 24 visionsolutions.com 24

25 Vision Director - File Enquiries Improves programmer productivity Helps design applications with efficient I/O Checks for best practices Collection of enquiries related to files by deleted records, by activity and more FIL file enquiries Leaders Have Vision visionsolutions.com 25 visionsolutions.com 25

26 Vision Director Task Scheduler Sun Mon Contains built in calendar and schedule that allows autonomic optimization Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Built in job scheduler which runs jobs based on peak/off peak times and includes sequencing. OK to run optimization Limited optimization Don t run optimization jobs Optimization and cleanup jobs get scheduled to run only when the calendar says it s safe, avoid peak times Contains sequencing capabilities, e.g don t run job B until job A has finished but you can run C in parallel TSK task scheduler Leaders Have Vision visionsolutions.com 26 visionsolutions.com 26

27 Accelerate Performance, Automate Optimization Analyze Information Report & Recommend Gather Information Take Action Stay in Control! Proactively, Monitor, Manage & Optimize Your IBM i Servers Leaders Have Vision visionsolutions.com 27 visionsolutions.com 27

28 Customers Believe in Director With Vision Director, I know exactly what my programmers are doing: I can get information easily and efficiently on what jobs were run at what times and I can see the size of system objects and libraries. We re saving storage space and avoiding problems like latency issues and application hold-ups. - Mike McLaughlin, Director of Operations, Norcal Waste Systems Vision Director is an invaluable tool for delayed system reporting. Using the Advanced Option module, it is both quick and easy to group libraries into data sets and report size and growth periodically. Fischer-Rosemount Vision Director is a low overhead, dynamic and automatic tool which we reference daily. It provides a complete analysis of our systems, lets us forecast what needs to be done and provides a wealth of problem determination data both online and via reports. Christian Salvesen Leaders Have Vision visionsolutions.com 28 visionsolutions.com 28

29 Hundreds of Production Customers Leaders Have Vision visionsolutions.com 29 visionsolutions.com 29

30 Vision Director 8.0 Question and Answer Session Name Title Leaders Have Vision visionsolutions.com 30 visionsolutions.com 30