GEICO has also been using the CA-MSM beta version and my co-worker who
installed Compliance Manager with it after I gave him a very short
introduction said it was "amazing". Another team member installed a few
PTFs in about 2 minutes when I asked him to do so over the phone from
another office for our security team. His comment "that's it?" almost
couldn't believe he had just done the same SMP/E work that normally took
him several jobs and more time. I guess a he had expected to fumble
around quite a bit more not having been the original installer of the
product he was being asked to service but it just wasn't that hard with
MSM.
You need one z/OS savy person to setup CA-MSM that can perform or
coordinate network, security, USS setup, etc. Once done everyone else
get use of a very time efficient tool to handle installation and service
without needing to individually do any setup. They are still in full
control and deployment for now is done just as it always has been. This
just gets the SMP/E RECEIVE, APPLY, ACCEPT parts of the work out of the
way quickly so they can move on to deployment and
customization/configuration where they actually get to add value to our
business. It is real standard compliant SMP/E under the hood and all
the SMP/E processing output being run for you is saved and exposed
through drill downs for the curious or anyone who needs to see the
detail.
I also allocated a hefty sized central zFS filesystem for shared
workspace and CA-MSM itself.
So far our teams are very impressed.
Best Regards,
Sam Knutson, GEICO
System z Performance and Availability Management
mailto:sknut...@geico.com
(office) 301.986.3574
(cell) 301.996.1318
"Think big, act bold, start simple, grow fast..."
-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Patrick Loftus
Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 10:44 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: CA Mainframe 2.0
We've been using MSM beta version, and we're very impressed at this
early stage.
As an example, it took me about 2 minutes work to get VTAPE installed
(not
configured). Elapsed time longer obviously, due to downloading and
SMP/E
batch work, but you can put your feet up whilst you wait, or
alternatively
find some other work to be doing. Click, click, click, click, and it's
done.
You'll need a reasonable amount of filesystem space though.
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