Tivoli Advanced Storage Management Suite for z/OS, V1.1

IBM Tivoli Advanced Storage Management Suite for z/OS, V1.1 delivers a storage management, audit, and reporting software suite that consists of:

In the future, as new releases of the components become available, Tivoli Advanced Storage Management Suite for z/OS will be updated.

This suite of components delivers capabilities such as:

Data protection for integrated catalog facility (ICF) catalogs to help increase data availability
Capabilities that can reorganize, repair, split, and merge catalogs while they are open
Virtual storage access method (VSAM) data set recovery to help recover VSAM data sets backed up by IDCAMS EXPORT or Rocket Software’s VSAM Assist
Ability to prevent, and recover from, many space-related abnormal ends (abends)
Flexible policy-based management of storage allocation controls
Monitoring and management of storage allocation issues: Multiple Data Facility Storage Management Subsystem (DFSMS) audit reports to help maintain healthy metadata environments and prevent temporary or permanent loss of data access; Conduct fast and accurate audits and diagnostics, as well as automated corrective actions to help resolve error conditions; Monitoring, reporting, analysis, and management of daily DFSMS hierarchical storage management (HSM) environment activity, including both real-time and historical trending data on usage and cost that can help optimize the DFSMShsm environment; Capability to rename, move, reorganize, or enlarge any DFSMShsm control data sets (CDSs) without the need to schedule application downtime

Planned availability date
February 17, 2012