Industry Leader in Mainframe Software...

Industry Leader in Mainframe

Software Products

Introduction

Senior Director of American Sales and Global Alliances for Syncsort’s Big Iron business unit.

Executive Sales Management career spanning 20+ years IBM, Syncsort, and several emerging marketing technology companies.

Manage alliances with key partners including IBM (OEM relationship) and Splunk

Led Syncsort’s introduction to Big Data thru partnerships with Splunk, Cloudera, Hortonworks, & Dell.

Interests include NY Rangers, Hitting golf balls not in the fairway, Traveling to places no one else would

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Agenda

Why Customers Choose Syncsort

Syncsort Mainframe Product Line

– MFX for z/OS®

– ZPSaver Suite

– Ironstream®

– DL2/VS2

– ZEN

– Cogito for DB2 Perf Tuning

Q&A/Next Steps

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Do You Know Syncsort?

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• Syncsort provides fast, secure, enterprise-grade software spanning “Big Iron to Big Data”

• 50% of all mainframes run Syncsort software

• Real-time MF Log data to Splunk - Ironstream

• DB2 transparency migration solutions

• Real-time network management and security software

• Fastest sort technology in the marketMost trusted 3rd party mainframe software

• Over 45 years of innovation:25+ issued & pending patents

• Large global customer base

12,000+ deployments in 85 countries and serving 87 of the Fortune 100

1,500 mainframe customers

Our customers realize ROI and get the best customer service in the world, every day!

Key Partners


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Addressing Today’s Mainframe Challenges

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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 securely access &

distribute mainframe data?


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Syncsort MFX for z/OS: The Best of Sorts

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Syncsort MFX for z/OS is a transparent replacement for DFSORT, providing you with superior performance and more value!

No Changes To JCL

No Changes To Sort Control Statements

No Changes To Sort Exits

No Changes To Program-Invoked Sorts

Transparency

Performance

Innovation

Ease of Management

Application Efficiency

Support


History of Product Innovation

Syncsort MFX for z/OS has a commitment to innovation with 45 years ofconsistent product leadership

Syncsort Feature Year DFSORT Lag

zHPF Exploitation

Create & E-Mail PDF, RTF, HTML Files

2014

2011

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zIIP Exploitation 2008 ✖

MIDAW Exploitation 2006 ✖

JOIN Processing 2004 2009 5 Yrs

PAV Exploitation 2001 ✖

Direct DB2 Access 2001 ✖

PARASORT 1999 ✖

Horizontal Arithmetic on OUTREC 1999 2003 4 Yrs

XSUM 1996 ✖

PipeSort 1994 ✖

Global DSM 1992 ✖

Data Space Exploitation 1989 1992 3 Yrs

SAS PROC SORT Replacement 1989 ✖

Variable/Fixed Conversion 1989 1995 6 Yrs

Incremental DYNALLOC 1985 ✖

SYNCINIT 1985 ✖

Multiple Output 1983 1991 8 Yrs

Report Writing 1983 1995 12 Yrs

MAXSORT 1979 ✖

IEBGENER Replacement 1979 1987 8 Yrs

INREC 1979 1983 4 Yrs

INCLUDE/OMIT, SUM, OUTREC 1977 1983 6 Yrs

COBOL Exits 1976 1985 9 Yrs

EXCPVR 1975 1988 13 Yrs


Syncsort MFX: The Fastest, Most Efficient Sort. Period!

Syncsort MFX for z/OS:

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%

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Total CPU Time Elapsed Time

Performance Comparison

DFSORT Syncsort MFX

Syncsort MFX Customers Achieve Significantly Faster Sort Performance and System Throughput at Lower Costs


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• Significantly reduced TCB CPU time

– up to 90%

• Offload CPU cycles to zIIP engines

• Reduce Elapsed time – up to 25%

Shift Critical Sort, Copy & Compression Workloads to zIIP Processors

Syncsort ZPSaver Suite

Offload COPY Processing to zIIP

Shift COPY processing to zIIP Engines

Reduce Copy-related TCB CPU time by 99%

Achieve up to 25% faster elapsed times

PLUS…

Completely Transparent to users and

existing COPY applications

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0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

TCB CPU Time Elapsed Time

COPY in zIIP vs. MFX Copy

MFX Copy COPY in zIIP


Offloading SMS Compression to zIIP

Compressing mainframe data is critical to

contain costs BUT…

Compression can be VERY expensive too!

CPU costs vs. Storage costs

ZPCompress 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

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20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

CPU Time Elapsed Time

Comp on CP Comp with ZPCompress


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

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0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

TCB CPU Time

Sort in zIIP vs. MFX Sort

MFX Sort Sort in zIIP


Get More Value from zIIP Engines with ZPSaver Suite


Sub-capacity Pricing

Hardware upgrades

MSU-capped LPAR

Hosting / OutsourcingChargeback

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

• Migrate IMS Segments to DB2 tables

without making any application changes

• Eliminate IMS DB and 3rd party IMS

support tools

• Reduce overall application maintenance

tools

• Move application maintenance to SQL

and DB2

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Unleash The Power of IMS & VSAM Data

Syncsort DL/2

DL/2 - Transparent Data Migration from IMS to DB2®

Migrate IMS segments to DB2 tables without making anyapplication changes

Eliminate IMS DB and 3rd party IMS support tools

Reduce overall application maintenance costs

Move application maintenance to SQL and DB2

Syncsort DL/2 is not a replication tool, it is a replacement for IMS DB

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• Reduce annual network costs. Full

stop

• Replace NetView® & NetMaster®

• Minimize project time, costs and risk

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z/OS cost saving technology for reduced annual costs with improved network management functionality

Meet Syncsort ZEN Product Suite

Alerts

Console

Reports

Tools

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ZEN componentsZEN

OSA MONITOR

History

EE MONITORRexx

LINUX MONITOR

SNA

LINUX

APPLICATION

GATEWAY

ZEN: Cost Saving Technology

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Database Optimization for DB2 and CA IDMS

• Workload-Centric SQL Tuning for DB2

• Unique, Cost-saving Approach to DB2 Performance Optimization – Ask Us How!

• Best-in-Class Tools for CA IDMS

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Meet Syncsort EZ-DB2 and EZ-IDMS

Why EZ – DB2?

EZ-DB2 is a performance management

suite for DB2 on z/OS platform

Assists DB2 users in improving

performance and reducing resource

utilization by identifying “problematic”

SQL

Customers could be running tools such as

Query Monitor, Detector, AppTune

Still value with EZ-DB2 • Captures high value information : not just the biggest

queries but queries w/biggest impact on performance

• Low overhead: Customer sometimes can’t run

existing Solutions because of overhead or concern w

DB2 crashing

• Less expensive

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• IT Operational Intelligence/ITOA:

Got SLAs? Stream critical DB2, CICS, IMS,

MQ to meet improve performance

• Enterprise Security & Compliance/SIEM:

Extend Splunk’s leading SIEM solution to

include your entire enterprise

• IT Service Intelligence/ITSI:

Complete service-centric visualization,

analytics, troubleshooting

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Splunk Access to Critical z/OS Big Iron Data

Syncsort Ironstream®

Ironstream® Architectural Considerations

Ultra Light Weight

Minimal MIPS impact even for

billions of SMF records

Non-intrusive

Collect data from critical system

Zero impact to throughput

Fast

Collect data in real time

Secure and Reliable

Error recovery

Security

Load balancing


Ironstream® Architecture Overview

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Value of an End-to-End View, Inclusive of Mainframe

Extend What Splunk Does Already, to the Other ~40%-80% of IT Processing

– 360ᵒ Degree View: Make the Splunk View of the Enterprise Complete

– Same Splunk Dashboards, Bigger, More Complete Data Sets; Free Apps

Security and Compliance/SIEM- Ensure Audits Passed

IT Operational Analytics/ITOA-Ensure Ops SLAs Met

IT Service Intelligence/ITSI-Ensure Services Health

Syslog Dashboard


Syslog Dashboard - Continued


Job Monitor for SLA Tracking: SMF 30


CICS Transaction Monitoring


Transaction Rates CPU Usage by Transaction

Transaction Response Time Transaction Failures

Working with VICOM

Why Customers Choose Syncsort

Syncsort Mainframe Product Line

– MFX for z/OS®

– ZPSaver Suite

– Ironstream®

– DL2/VS2

– ZEN

– Cogito for DB2 Perf Tuning

Q&A/Next Steps


For More Information Or To Buy IBM TADDM Please Contact…

Len Santalucia, CTO & Business Development

Manager

One Penn Plaza – Suite 2010

New York, NY 10119

212-799-9375

[email protected]

About Vicom Infinity

• Account Presence Since Late 1990’s

• IBM Premier Business Partner

• Reseller of IBM Hardware, Software, and Maintenance

• Vendor Source for the Last 4 Generations of Mainframes/IBM Storage

• Professional and IT Architectural Services

• Vicom Family of Companies Also Offer Leasing & Financing, Computer Services,

and IT Staffing & IT Project Management

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