Mainframe Optimization in 2017

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Session Abstract and Speakers
• In this educational webinar, the heads of mainframe development and product management
from Syncsort will discuss key mainframe optimization problems, opportunities and use cases
for 2017, spanning DB2 and network management on z/OS, as well as new ways to save on
your monthly IBM MLC charges and new options for long-standing mainframe issues.
• Join us to learn:
– How the latest innovations for zIIP and sort will save you time and money each month
– How workload-centric database optimization changes the game for DB2 and IDMS
– New options for long-standing network management and IMS cost and resource issues
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Steven Menges
Director, Product Management
John Reda
Vice President,
Software Engineering

Addressing Today’s Mainframe Challenges
How to reduce software costs?
How to reduce processing times to meet SLAs?
How to save mainframe processing?
How to leverage zIIP engines?
How to optimize them?
How to manage resources?
How to defer hardware upgrades?
How to identify potential processing savings?
How to optimize z/OS databases? What about IMS?
How to best manage growing Mobile workloads?

Optimization Need: Cost and Elapsed Time
Business
Problem
1. Companies need to contain MLC costs associated with the “4 Hour Rolling Average”
or the capacity of the mainframe
2. Large SORT jobs present challenges to SLA management

• Sort Innovation
• zIIP Exploitation
• zEDC

Better Performance, Better Savings
Faster Performance
• zHPF exploitation reduces elapsed time by up to 15%
• Enhanced OPTMODES Automatically tune performance
based what is important to YOU (ET vs. CPU)
• Optimization for z13, zEC12, zBC12 and z196 models
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Higher Productivity
• More data manipulation functions such
as field type comparisons and parsed
field identification
• 64-bit addressing for exits – E15, E32,
E35 – and invoking programs

• Optimizes resource use
• Exploits advanced system functions
• Utilizes dynamic parallel processing
to reduce elapsed time
• Reduces Total CPU Time by 30 - 40%
• Reduces Elapsed Time by 20 - 40%
Total CPU Time Elapsed Time
DFSORT Syncsort MFX
Syncsort MFX Customers Achieve Significantly Faster Sort
Performance and System Throughput at Lower Costs
Performance Comparison Syncsort MFX for z/OS

• zIIP Exploitation

zIIP Engine Innovation: ZPSaver Suite
Shift Critical Copy, Compression & Sort Workloads to zIIP Processors
Offload compression
work to zIIP processors
Offload Copy processing
to zIIP processors
Offload Sort processing
to zIIP processors
Syncsort MFX 2.1 Provides the Foundation for ZPSaver Suite

• Shift COPY processing to zIIP Engines
• Reduce Copy-related TCB CPU time by up
to 99%
• Achieve up to 25% faster elapsed times
PLUS …
• Completely Transparent to users and
existing COPY applications0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
TCB CPU Time Elapsed Time
MFX Copy Copy in zIIP
COPY in zIIP vs. MFX Copy
Offload COPY Processing to zIIP

0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
CPU Time Elapsed Time
Comp on CP Compression in zIIP
Offloading SMS Compression to zIIP
OffloadtozIIP
• Compressing mainframe data is critical to
contain costs BUT…
Compression can be VERY expensive too!
• CPU costs vs. Storage costs
Compression in zIIP Can Help!
• High-performance SMS compression
running on zIIP processors
• Reduce 90% of CPU time for SORTs and
COPYs of compressed data
• No control card / JCL changes required

Offload SORT Processing to zIIP
• Shift SORT processing to zIIP Engines
• Reduce SORT-related TCB CPU time by
95%
PLUS …
• Completely Transparent to users and
existing SORT applications
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
TCB CPU Time
MFX Sort Sort in zIIP
Sort in zIIP vs. MFX Sort

Get More Value from zIIP Engines with ZPSaver Suite
Sub-capacity Pricing
Hardware upgrades
MSU-capped
LPAR
Hosting / Outsourcing
Chargeback
Reduces billable CPU and
contains overall software costs
Delays hardware upgrades
as data volumes increase
Supports more work and
frees up capacity
Results in lower fees and bills
Batch Window
Meeting SLAs & batch window
reduces risk and associated costs
to the business

Business Problem Differentiated Solution Added Benefits
1. Companies need to contain
costs associated with the
“4 Hour Rolling Average”
or the capacity of the
mainframe
2. Large SORT jobs present
challenges to SLA
management
Through superior
algorithms/optimizations,
intelligent resource utilization
and zIIP offload, MFX provides
significantly reduced CPU and
elapsed time performance.
ZPSaver will increase the zIIP
offload to reduce the CPU cost
for data processing.
MFX has a significant number
of unique data manipulation
and resource management
features. These reduce the
need for custom coding or
additional 3rd party software.

Roadmap for Sort and zIIP (MFX & ZPSaver)
Strategic Intent: Reduce mainframe costs through zIIP offload, smart resource usage and superior algorithms
LATEST PLANNED UNDER CONSIDERATION
DELIVERY V2.1 base (2016 Q2) V2.1 2016 Q4
 Improve elapsed time performance of
large sorts with compression through
increased parallelism
 Extend cost saving achievable with
ZPSaver to: OUTFIL, VSAM & invoked
sorts
 Provide culturally sensitive sorting by
supporting Unicode
 Improved resource management by
externalizing the control of the zIIP
offload percentage
 Improved SLA management through
parallel processing using Spark engines
MARQUEE
FEATURES/
CUSTOMER
VALUE
 Extend cost saving achievable with
ZPSaver to:
 JOIN applications
 SYNCTOOL applications
 Applications with Multi-volume,
compressed data sets
 Optimize performance for
applications that process zEDC
compressed data sets
 Improve performance on z/OS
release 2.2 operating systems

Reminder
Type in your questions at any time during the
presentation using the chat window.
We will answer them during our Q&A session
following the presentations or afterward.

Business
Problem
As Mainframe budgets increase organizations need to continue to provide secure,
reliable networks to support business critical enterprise wide applications via a cost
effective suite of monitoring and management tools.
Optimization Need: Network Management Cost and Ease-of-Use

ZEN: Cost Saving Technology

As Mainframe budgets
increase organizations need
to continue to provide
secure, reliable networks to
support business critical
enterprise wide applications
via a cost effective suite of
monitoring and management
tools.
Low cost, easy to implement,
browser based interface for
network management on a
component by component
basis.
Highly customizable and
feature rich tool which can
expand beyond basic network
management functions.
Optimization Need: Network Management

Roadmap: Zen Suite
Strategic Intent: Cost effective enhanced z/OS Network monitoring, management and security
DELIVERY 2016 Q2 2016 Q4
 Provide application level tracing for
greater operational control and
improved network-related problem
resolution.
 Reduce MLC costs by exploiting zIIPs for
Zen products
 Extend FTP monitoring to include secure
FTP protocols for greater operational
control and compliance.
 Support IBM Shared Memory
Communications technology to enable
better operational management and
control for z13 environments
MARQUEE
FEATURES/
CUSTOMER
VALUE
 Enables expanded operational
visibility in OSA Monitor to RoCE
devices and their activity
 Deploy IBM Communications Server
Network Management Interfaces
(NMI) across the product suite to
enable greater operational flexibility
and extensibility
 Expand secure communication
capability for Enterprise Extender
Security product to include Windows
Servers that communicate with z/OS
and Unix

Business
Problem
Businesses are faced with expensive ongoing IMS license costs and a diminishing skills
base needed to maintain legacy applications with ‘locked in’ data. Against this
backdrop they need to modernize these legacy applications and free the data to
distributed and mobile access.
Optimization Need: IMS Database Migration

DL/2 and VS/2: Transparent Data Migration to DB2®
• Migrate data to DB2 without
making any application changes
• Make previously “locked-away”
data securely available to the
entire enterprise
• Reduce overall application
maintenance costs

What Do We Mean by Transparent Data Migration?
• No modifications, compiles, recompiles, link-edits of existing application
programs
• Migrate at your own pace – one file at a time, multiple files
• Environmental changes for batch JCL and CICS can be made in non-disruptively
in advance
• Simple switch between IMS/VSAM and DB2 for application testing
• Fallback capability
• Easiest and fastest route to DB2 and value deliver
Lowest risk migration approach – proven time and time again

Optimization Need: IMS Database Migration
Businesses are faced with
expensive ongoing IMS license
costs and a diminishing skills
base needed to maintain legacy
applications with ‘locked in’
data. Against this backdrop
they need to modernize these
legacy applications and free the
data to distributed and mobile
access.
Minimize risk by migrating the
data on a case by case basis
with no application changes.
Gain new insights from
opening the data to various
business analytics tools.

Roadmap: DL/2
Strategic Intent: Increased value and accessibility to IMS legacy data through migration to DB2
DELIVERY 2016 Q2 2016 Q4
 Continue to identify improvements to
the mapping, data migration and
application testing process to enable
increased value and robust verification
for product implementation
 Investigate partner options around
technology to isolate IMS
database/application relationship and
provide targeted cost effective
application testing
 Package DL/2 with SMP/E
MARQUEE
FEATURES/
CUSTOMER
VALUE
 Enhanced application migration
features direct from customer
implementation experiences
 Improved Mapper tool with
increased database design coverage
and comprehensive migration test
processes
 Further application migration
changes for ease of use and
extended functionality

Business
Problems
DB2 for z/OS database administrators worry about three things: (1) application
response times, (2) throughput, and (3) mainframe CPU utilization — not necessarily in
that order.
And they have to keep those parameters at reasonably optimal levels.
Optimization Need: DB2 Database Management

Introducing Syncsort EZ-DB2 Suite (formerly Cogito EZ-DB2)

DB2 for z/OS database
administrators worry about
three things: (1) application
response times, (2) throughput,
and (3)
mainframe CPU utilization —
not necessarily in that order.
And they have to keep those
parameters at reasonably
optimal levels.
A versatile toolset to optimize
management of your DB2 for
z/OS, including:
• Trace / Cache
• Index Analyzer and
Optimizer
• Impact Analyzer
• Alerts
• Stats
• Production Simulation
Works in concert with the IBM
DB2 Optimizer; provides
insight into the workload
activity for STATIC and
DYNAMIC SQL
Learn more at:
Syncsort.com/ez-db2
Optimization Need: DB2 Database Management

Business
Problems
Difficult to continue to meet mission-critical needs for CA IDMS database
administration
Optimization Need: IDMS Database Management

Optimization Need: CA IDMS Database Management

EZ-IDMS (Cogito tools for CA IDMS®)

Difficult to continue to meet
mission-critical needs for CA
IDMS database administration
A versatile toolset to optimize
management of your DB2 for
CA-IDMS, including: Re-org,
restructure, synchronization
and sharing, testing, and more.
Work closely with CA
Technologies to ensure
compatibility and look for
further opportunities to
innovate
Optimization Need: IDMS Database Management

Questions and More Information
Questions for John and Steve?
Questions on DB2 or CA IDMS tools for Clive?
For More Information:
syncsort.com
blog.syncsort.com/
Comments/Other:
Steven Menges: smenges@syncsort.com
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