We installed TADz as POC. It was easy to install, easy to run, and easy to clone among sysplexes. AFAIK it requires DB2 on every system you want to monitor.
Then Corporate policy turned to BMC DISCOVERY in part because it had already been established on other platforms. DISCOVERY uses what I call 'MAINVIEW Infrastructure'. If you currently run MAINVIEW the product or one of the other infrastructure exploiter products, then you already have in place much of what's required. Not all BMC products are exploiters. APPTUNE happens to be one; there are many others. MAINVIEW Infrastructure is complex, requires several started tasks, and requires oodles of TLC (and vendor help) to clone among sysplexes. It does not require DB2 but does require some kind of off-platform server to pull data from the mainframe via TCP/IP and a SAF userid with appropriate READ authority. . . JO.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile jo.skip.robin...@sce.com From: Nathan J Pfister <npfis...@aessuccess.org> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU, Date: 01/17/2014 06:56 AM Subject: TADz Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> List; Are there any other good alternatives to TADz for z/OS asset discovery? Thanks; Nathan Pfister zOS Systems Programmer AES\PHEAA - Tech Services ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
