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T-REX:
The Premier Catalog Management Solution
All IBM Mainframe Data
Centres are striving for 24*7 availability, but does system
availability guarantee data availability? An IBM Mainframe platform
is generally chosen for mission critical workloads and its 40+ year
legacy of delivering the highest levels of availability. However, if
an ICF catalog structure fails, either logically or physically, what
impact does this have on system availability, or more likely mission
critical workload operability? Traditionally daily back-ups of ICF
catalog structures was the norm, maybe supplemented by forward
recovery using SMF records. Clearly the downtime associated with
such an approach is significant, while the cost to the business,
sometimes very costly in terms of measurable lost revenue and
intangible in terms of customer perception...
T-REX has been developed by the original developers of the first
such catalog management tool, namely the VSAM Mechanic, which then
evolved into the Catalog Solution (CSL) product from Softworks.
However, T-REX architecture was conceived from square one, using an
Access Methods Services/Extended (AMS/E) approach, generating the
functionality required for delivering 24*7 ICF catalog availability,
something which the original Access Method Services (AMS) was not
designed for, regardless of Data Facility Product (DFP) evolutions,
for example, DFSMS. Suffice to say, numerous Global 1000 and ~85% of
USA Fortune 500 companies deploy catalog management technology
conceived and written by Dino-Software developers!
The T-REX product is the fastest most comprehensive catalog
management and recovery solution available. T-REX is the newest,
most comprehensive catalog management, VSAM cluster and TMC
synchronization tool on the market. It helps safeguard ICF catalog
and Tape Management Subsystem (TMS) inventory data (E.g. CA-1 TMC,
DFSMSrmm CDS) in five key areas, namely Maintenance, Diagnostics,
Reporting, Backup and Recovery.
This one tool that complements Access Method Services (AMS) provides
all of the utilities required to simplify management of catalog and
TMS structures, while providing the critical backup and recovery
capabilities required to protect data in the event of minor problems
or major disasters. T-REX supports all VSAM clusters, including KSDS,
ESDS, RRDS, VRRDS and LINEAR. As another value-added functionality
first, T-REX provides the availability conscious business with the
capability to REORG a catalog while it is open, being yet another
demonstration of T-REX providing continuous availability...
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Dino-Software and T-REX, passionate about your ICF catalog
integrity & availability! |
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