Hi Folks, As a zOS syprog with 20+ years in MVS, I'm trying to find out if the products that we used to use for control/monitoring/automation back in the day, are still around now that we have gone/are going Distributed/Open Systems.
Well, not specifically if they are still around, I can see from the vendor websites that they are. I suppose I'm more interested in, are they still widely used. Do CA, BMC and other vendors of monitoring/control/automation products still have a sizeable share of the IBM Mainframe market or has Tivoli taken over? A lot of the products I used, Omegamon, Netview, OPC, etc have now all been rebranded as Tivoli so pretty much every site I come across has Tivoli. Does that mean they just have one or two products and still use other vendors? I sort of moved away from the Operational side of things and got sidetracked in DASD performance, GPDS and VSAM RLS. Now working for a software company and not the large Banking Data Centre where I used to roam, I don't have the option of just walking over the corridor and talking to the Automation Team or chatting with the Ops Shift Leader. Am I wrong in assuming that if Tivoli can monitor our application (running on WAS, USS and DB2/MQ on Z) then the appropriate CA or BMC product can too? Many thanks for any/all comments. Rob ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
