Enterprise Executive • 2024: EE Issue 5 • Dino Software

BACKUP & RECOVERY SOLUTIONS, CAPACITY PLANNING SOLUTIONS, DISASTER RECOVERY SOLUTIONS, DYNAMIC VSAM BATCH PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION, ENTERPRISE Z/OS STORAGE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENT SOLUTIONS, HSM HEALTH MANAGEMENT, ICF CATALOG MANAGEMENT, STORAGE SOLUTIONS, SYSTEM MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS, VIRTUAL TAPE SOLUTIONS

Dino-Software Corporation develops enterprise-wide solutions for the management, analysis, protection and repair of complex z/OS mainframe environments. Dino has long been acknowledged for its superiority in integrated catalog facility (ICF) catalog management, VSAM I/O tuning, and expert technical support, helping organizations ensure their business-critical assets remain online and recoverable in the event of a disaster.

T-REX is a lightning-fast, comprehensive and superior management tool for the core asset of a business—the integrated catalog facility. Authored by original developers of Catalog Solution®, T-REX, with proprietary burst technology, provides reporting, diagnostic, reorganization, repair, and disaster recovery utilities needed to simplify management of catalogs and tape subsystems at the fastest rate possible while also providing the critical backup and recovery capabilities to protect data during minor problems or major disasters. T-REX ensures optimum catalog availability and provides REORG-while-open, helping eliminate downtime, safeguarding business continuity and resiliency, and supporting the 24x7 data center. Modern GUI interface optionally available.

Universal Data Manager (UDM) is a unique, powerful, easy to install SRM solution for managing an organization’s z/OS storage at an enterprise level:

z/OS object management is simplified with dynamic, automated policy-based monitoring and reaction to console messages or conditions. UDM provides centralized, realtime and historical reporting on z/OS storage subsystems using SQL filters, thus allowing a consolidated view into the status of storage groups across the enterprise. The pleasant GUI experience eases the burden of routine, cumbersome tasks and provides immediate ROI (see Figure 1).

VELOCI-RAPTOR (VR) is an intuitive, fully integrated VSAM batch performance optimization tool to improve system performance by dramatically reducing application I/O processing overhead. VR automatically minimizes data access time by utilizing proprietary analysis and intelligence gathering during OPEN processing and I/O requests to any VSAM or non-VSAM (QSAM, BSAM and EXCP) dataset. More effective than any manual tuning effort, helping shrink batch windows and allowing users to defer or eliminate costly CPU upgrades while meeting SLAs. No code changes to applications or JCL required, and Conversion Assist enables effortless migration from old, stagnant products to the most sophisticated technology available.

HSM Adminisaurus (HSA) is a consolidated DFSMShsm management tool for the novice or the expert that provides extensive reporting, comprehensive auditing, in-depth processing analysis, and simplified administrative functions to help you establish and maintain a healthy HSM environment. HSA allows proactive management to maximize storage utilization, optimize physical resources, and conserve time to ensure HSM availability and business continuity.

TERADON is a z/OS utility for moving BCS entries from one ICF catalog to another without an outage. This functionality is similar to IBM’s REPRO MERGECAT but with exponentially faster runtimes and many more options. TERADON provides the capability of moving entries for files that are currently OPEN or closed.

Learn more about Dino-Software and its modern z/OS mainframe solutions or request a free software trial at dino-software.com.