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Operations Management
Solutions Overview
ASGs Solutions Make the Most Challenging IT Environments Easier to Manage

ASG provides a comprehensive portfolio of market-leading product solutions in all key facets within
operations management. ASG solutions simplify both the complex day-to-day and longer-range
operational tasks for operations decision-makers and IT administrators in both the mainframe data
center and distributed IT environment.

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ASG Operations Management Solutions
Multi-Platform Workload/Scheduling Automation
Simplify cross-platform
workload scheduling and
management to lower costs
Solution Components:
ASG-Zena - for Distributed
Workload Management and
Process Automation
ASG-Zeke - for z/OS and VSE
Enterprise Event Scheduling
ASG-Zeke Agents - for Extending
the Power of ASG-Zeke to the
Enterprise
ASG-Zebb - for Automated Job
Restart/Rerun System
ASG-OpsCentral - for Centralized
Management of Enterprise
Scheduling Workloads
ASG-Outbound Enterprise - for
Multi-Platform Managed File
Transfers

IT is constantly asked to do more with less, falling victim to budget cuts and restraints;
meanwhile, business continues to grow, new applications are being added all the time,
technology continues to change, and you find it increasingly difficult to keep pace with
it all. Todays dynamic enterprise presents enormous IT management challenges as IT
continues to increase in complexity due to the proliferation of applications and platforms
including virtualization and Cloud technologies. As a result, effectively scheduling,
managing, and monitoring workloads across the enterprise is resource-intensive, often
involves multiple scheduling tools, and provides little coordination and insight into the
real-time activities happening across the business.
ASGs Multi-Platform Workload Automation solutions make the most complex and
challenging IT environments easier to manage. Our solutions help customers eliminate
errors, automate processes, and simplify the complex day-to-day operational tasks that
are performed in IT organizations across the globe.
In addition, our Multi-Platform Workload Automation solutions contain a dynamic, multiplatform, managed file transfer facility that enables you to transfer files of any recordor block-sized combination between disparate platforms. This enables you to get the
data where you want it, in the format you want, when you need it to address the data
requirements of your automation scenarios.
ASGs Multi-Platform Workload Automation solutions enable a business-centric
approach to managing the flow of work on multiple systems. By responding to business
events rapidly and randomly, mapping workload processes to service level agreements,
allocating resources based on infrastructure status, and proactively managing
performance, it supports your ability to reduce time-to-market on new business
functionality and operational costs.

JCL Management and Workload Enablement

Manage and automate critical
mainframe resources and
tasks
Solution Components:
ASG-JCLPREP - for Analyzing JCL
and Enforcing JCL Standards and
Syntax
ASG-JOB/SCAN - for
Comprehensive Production JCL
Management
ASG-PRO/JCL - for Advanced
Production JCL Management

Maintaining the Job Control Language (JCL) throughout its lifecycle is vital to any IT
operation, but it is especially important when running mission-critical mainframe
applications. With the high demand for continuous availability of resources, web-based
applications, and online transaction systems, the batch-processing window in most
organizations continues to be constrained. Due to these diminishing opportunities,
it is important for you to accurately manage JCL assets so that production JCL batch
processing operates error-free.
Consistent JCL formats that adhere to organizational standards help improve
productivity and efficiency. When JCL statements across all JCL members are consistent,
programmers and production control analysts have a common basis to help them to
quickly identify and resolve any problems that arise.
ASGs JCL Management solutions are a widely accepted, full-featured, and easy-touse set of tools for JCL validation and standards enforcement. They are specifically
designed to help any data center operate an error free production environment. With
ASGs JCL Management solutions, the user can eliminate costly reruns, meet service
level agreements, automatically enforce site standards, reduce backlog at production
turnover, and improve the overall JCL maintenance cycle.

Console Automation and Tape Management

Manage and automate critical
mainframe resources and
tasks
Solution Components:
ASG-Zack - for Automated
Systems and Event Management
ASG-Zack/VSE - for Automated
Console Management
ASG-Zara - for Automated Tape
Management

The processing power of todays enterprise demands higher availability, service, and
automation. To meet this challenge efficiently, solutions must reduce or eliminate manual
intervention as well as automate complex systems. z/OS, its subsystems, databases,
middleware, applications, and software generate thousands of event messages daily. IT
professionals need a tool to filter, prioritize, and respond quickly to these events before
they impact availability and threaten business processing and associated service level
agreements.
ASGs Console Automation solution helps you lower total cost of ownership (TCO) by
improving system resource and user efficiency through automation. It manages the
availability of critical z/OS resources and maintains the optimal conditions of your
mainframe systems by managing daily operations according to defined business policies,
replacing the need to manually react to console messages and write to operator
messages. By automating complex user-specified conditions, automation staff can shift
their focus to creating new code that meets the requirements of the business.
In addition, most organizations rely on a cost-effective, online tape management system
that secures, audits, and monitors valuable IT data in a z/OS environment, while providing
real-time access to tape management data.
ASGs Tape Management solution automatically monitors, manages, and records all
tape processing while providing online, real-time access to all tape management data. It
protects critical data through retention, interactively tracks data for administration and
reporting purposes, offers real-time robotic support, and provides sophisticated vaulting
functions.

Workload Planning and Analysis

Predictive Analytics for
Complex Scheduling
Solution Components:
ASG-Workload Analyzer - for
precise workload analysis
ASG-Workload Planner - for
graphically presenting complex
scheduling details
ASG-DOCU/TEXT - for
comprehensive production JCL
documentation
ASG-INFO/X Enterprise - for
comprehensive production asset
management

Workload planning and analysis is the key to a seamless and productive scheduling
lifecycle. Does your data center staff have the ability to better understand complex
schedules from a variety of mainframe scheduling systems? Are they able to forecast
their future scheduling performance? In addition, can they track and analyze processing
performance, detect problem areas, and present all the results in an easy-to-understand
graphical format?
ASG-Workload Planner takes complex information contained in a scheduling system
database and translates it into interactive graphic flowcharts. Forecast information, also
collected from the scheduling system, is used to create a series of graphs that predict
the performance of scheduled processing.
Implementing ASG-Workload Analyzer in your data center can completely change the
efficiency of your business operations. This innovative solution offers graphical tools
that allow you to quickly and precisely track your processing performance. With ASGWorkload Analyzer, you can scrutinize, measure effectiveness, recognize problem areas,
and do something about the way you handle your data processes.
To complete the workload planning and analysis puzzle, we offer ASG-DOCU/TEXT and
ASG-INFO/X which allow for comprehensive JCL documentation and asset management
across your LPARs.

ASG Software Solutions connects sophistication and experience with agility and technological efficiency through its vendor-agnostic
cloud, content and systems solutions. ASG helps companies solve todays most pressing business issues including reducing operating
costs, enhancing workforce productivity, and ensuring regulatory compliance. More than 70 percent of global Fortune 500 companies
trust ASG to optimize their existing IT investments. Founded in 1986, ASG is a global company headquartered in Naples, Florida, USA.

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