Enterprise Executive • 2024: EE Issue 5 • Enterprise Systems Associates, Inc. (ESAi)

CICS SOLUTIONS, DB2 SOLUTIONS, PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENT SOLUTIONS, TEST DATA MANAGEMENT

ESAi markets products that use automation and artificial intelligence to enhance the value of IT staff members by reducing tedious labor-intensive tasks and freeing them up to address critical issues. Technicians perform many routine, problem solving and environment management tasks in maintaining IT infrastructure. A good part of their workload is focused on Db2®, CICS®, and other databases on mainframe and distributed systems. Our products offer immediate staff augmentation benefits without long ramp-up training delays and allow new hires to become productive in a much shorter time. Labor statistics show that between 2011 and 2017 the experienced IT baby boomers as full time employees dropped from 51 percent to 25 percent. This drop in available experienced workforce places major corporations in a difficult place. The situation is further exacerbated because the IT environment has been evolving over the last couple of decades at an accelerated rate and has become highly complex.

ESAi’s products have accompanied this evolution and provide innovative solutions to meet the challenges these changes present. A key differentiator for vendor products is the level of support offered to its users. In this respect, the products offered by ESAi are backed by one of the best technical and customer service teams in the industry.

“I can’t thank you enough for your extraordinary work. Our company stresses customer service, and you have certainly taken customer service to a new level. Your knowledge of Db2 internals is awesome. Again, thank you so much for your efforts.”

“We brought in BCV5™ and a competing product for evaluation. We took our time and installed BCV5. It took 45 minutes. With a few hours of testing and a few answers from support, we were able to complete our first refresh on day one. It took less time to install, configure and execute a refresh with BCV5 than it took to get the competing product installed. ESAi support is the best I have experienced in my 37+ years in IT. Support responds quickly and always has a solution for any little bump we experience. Support setup several webinars on short notice to help us get the most out of the product. They not only explained how the software works, but also spoke to DB2 internals. They take great pride in their products and it shows.”

The products support the latest OS/ Database releases in a timely manner to allow the technical staff to take advantage of the emerging features. The AI engines adhere to best practices and provide solutions and suggestions that shorten the time needed by DBA’s and systems programmers to take proper corrective action when needed. The automation engines allow system and application programmers to optimize the use of their time by performing labor intensive tasks and eliminating manual errors that will occur from time to time.

ESAi helps organizations to meet today’s challenges and maintain high levels of service. Excellent value, outstanding support and an attractive cost benefit ratio…that’s ESAi.

Test Data Management—Provision/ Refresh Data, Create Clones, Mask Sensitive Fields

BCV4™/BCV5™/XDM™ is a flexible test data management suite that automates data provisioning, masking and cloning. It supports Db2 z/OS, Db2 LUW, Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, IMS, VSAM, etc. BCV5 automates copy/migrate/refreshes in an error free benchmark setting time. process (1/10th the normal manual effort, CPU and runtime of the unload/load based solutions). Sensitive data fields can be masked in place or during refresh. Test data selection capabilities facilitate precise creation of test scenarios.

Protect sensitive data with real-time comprehensive reporting, alerting, and/ or blocking of accesses to Db2 tables. All without the overhead of audit tracing or log processing.

BPA4DB2™ (buffer pool advisor) and SQLQC™ (SQL performance tool) improve Db2 for z/OS efficiency and throughput. They replace dated vendor solutions with a new level of expert analysis based on collecting systems data and recommends optimum performance solutions for a more responsive Db2 system.

ICPU™ easily identifies faulty code causing costly CICS performance issues. Unlike other tools the resource usage is un-impacting. ICPU’s low overhead allows it to be used in production and test environments. All technical staff are able to resolve challenging problems quickly and reduce impacts.

ULT4DB2™ is a powerful log analyzer for auditing data changes, propagating changes to other systems, backing out errant updates and generating reports. ULT4DB2 simplifies most tasks associated with the Db2 Log.

Audit, alert, report, & block accesses to sensitive Db2 data. NO audit trace or logs required!

Improve performance with real time APM in production and Test environments and identify application code level issues.

Log analyzer, auditor, and data propagator that makes handling the Db2 Log an easy task.

These products and others found on our website provide IT with state-of-the-art infrastructure tools. Designed for hands-on staff, they offer ease of use and performance enhancement with a solid value proposition. Intelligent automation and AI capabilities enable IT to do more with less and meet SLAs.