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E-GEN iCAN

The Global solution to Collect, Audit and Navigate in the Information Systems

© ISC Software 2011 - Page 2

About ISC

• European Software Company

• Founded in 1986 in Brussels (HQ)

• Over 100 large customers

• Over 250 product instances

• Leader in Production Repositories

• Technological partnerships with

BMC, CA Tech, HP, IBM

• Consulting partnerships with

Sogeti, Aubay, Prodline…

• IBM “z/OS & LINUX Partners in

Development”


ISC Product Line


Why continue wasting money ?

IT environments are like a large puzzle:

If you miss a piece

you can loose a lot of money


Z/OS Environments' Shortcomings

Separate items lack: Links between each other

An Op’s central repository

Customized User objects

Up-to-date Run books

…

User needs :

A global view of information

A structured Navigation

An easy user request facility

Multiple output possibilities

…


E-GEN iCAN – The Global solution


iCAN Concept

iCAN

- Centralize all IT and User information in a central repository

- Manage all xref’s between components

- Customized User Data Model

- Powerful functionalities

- to display

- to audit

- to request

- to generate

- To document


iCAN Client logon ( Windows)

Select the iCAN scope


User Interface

• Intuitive and easy-to-use

• Multiple display modes: graphical, text (structured / flat ), 3270…

• Hyperlinks on objects, whichever the display mode

• Cross References

Previous / Next

Display Mode

Selector

Cross References :

Uses / Used by

Job Documentation &

Run Book Generation

Object Explorer /

Selector


ISC Graphical Interface

Predecessors /

Successors

Object under

analysis

• Each node is a hyperlink, allowing you to navigate


GraphViz Interface Horizontal mode

Predecessors

in red

Object under

analysis


Successors

in green


GraphViz Interface Vertical mode

Predecessors in red

Object under

analysis


Successors in green


Graph to VISIO Interface with MS-Visio


Run Books

• Generate an HTML Run Book, with hyperlinks

A click on any job directly opens

its detailed description.

Every object in the detailed

layout is an active link.


3270 Interface

• Each item in red is a hyperlink, allowing you to navigate

• Procedures can be unfolded by clicking on '+'


Cross References

• Cross references are available for any repository object, in any display mode

Procedure

IKJEFT01 is

"Used by"

Procedure

IKJEFT01

"Uses"


Structured Text Interface

Predecessors

Each name in red

is a hyperlink,

allowing you to

navigate


Flat Text Interface

• Even in Flat text mode, each element name (Step card, DDname, DSN…) is a hyperlink, allowing you to navigate.

Each object name is a

hyperlink, allowing you to

navigate


Request Engine

Search (example):

• Find all jobs that have a RUNTYPE clause

• Among those, find the ones that are governed by TWS Rules (RUNTYP=R) and fetch the rule


Request selection from iCAN Object Map


Request user interface

This request searches all NAME parameter values in JCL collected objects

and store the result in a flat file

In this example, the user needs to know all the NAME

parameter values used in his collected Z/OS environment.

After the request process, the flat file, in Z/OS, Unix or

Windows, contains all the Names values used in the Z/OS

environment.

Global information's are coming from JCL collected

objects.

If the administrator wants , he can decide to create

customized User objects instead of flat file.


• Define your audit criteria, including non-keywords, i.e. free text strings

• Launch the audit

Audit – Define your own criteria

Search criteria:

Analysis of all existing

values for the DISP

parameter

Each value in red is a hyperlink, allowing

you to list all the concerned JCLs

Result:

All existing values,

with statistics


Collectors

ADABAS / NATURAL CA-IDMS JES3NET

APM / HS5000 CA-JOBTRAC LISTCAT

ASG-CORTEX PDB CA-SCHEDULER MQ SERIES

ASG-ZEKE CA-TNG RSD/EOS

ASSEMBLER CFT SMF

BETA 42 CICS TWS / OPC

BETA 92 COBOL XML

BETA 93 DB2 … BMC / CONTROL-D HDC

BMC / CONTROL-M

BMC / CONTROL-O IAM

BMC / ECS IMS DB/DC (DL1)

CA7 ISMF/VTOC

CA-AUTOSYS JCL

CA-DISPATCH JCL GCOS8

Our R&D dept. can

create any custom

collector, on request


Create your own collector !

• Integrate any type of structured data into the repository, regardless of

their origin (z/OS or not), in the shape of flat files

o .TXT

o .CSV

o .XML

• Read those flat files, and aggregate them into the iCAN repository

o Collect the data and assign them to new data objects

o Create links between the new objects and previously existing ones

• The requests / procedures used to select and/or to generate the user

oriented data with your custom request.

• The newly aggregated data can be queried, viewed, charted, and you

may run an audit against it, just like for any other data in the repository.


• Server installed on Unix / Linux

• ISC-made repository on the

Unix/Linux server (license-free)

• Collector batch jobs collect local flat

files that have previously been

extracted and transmitted from the

Host

• Communication with workstations via

TCP/IP

• Link with LDAP

z/OS Server

Unix / Linux Server

Windows Server

• Server installed on the Host (STC)

• Repository in a VSAM KSDS

• Collectors run as batch jobs


TCP/IP

• Link with RACF / TSS / ACF2

• z/OS Server is mandatory for DB2

collection

• Server installed on Windows

• ISC-made repository on the Windows

server (license-free)

• Collector batch jobs collect local flat

files that have previously been

extracted and transmitted from the

Host


TCP/IP

• Link with LDAP

Windows Client • Client installed on Windows workstations

• iCAN administration for all server types

• Ad-hoc collector batch jobs are launched

from Workstations or in batch mode

• Communication with servers via TCP/IP

• User interface for all users

iCAN Architecture


Easy to implement

The entire process takes less than one day:

• Install the iCAN server on

o z/OS or

o Unix or

o Windows

• Install a client on one or more Windows workstation(s)

• Define one or more collect(s) configuration

• Start the desired collect (Batch process )

o From Windows

o From z/OS

• iCAN is operational, the results are ready for browsing


ROI & Added Value

• The ROI is less than 1 year in any case

o The purchase price of E-GEN iCAN is +/- that of one resource/year.

o The maintenance fee corresponds to +/- two months salary of one resource.

• Examples of indirect savings:

o Simply extract z/OS files and send to iCAN Unix / Windows server for collection and analysis MIPS/MSU savings

o Run Book generated from collected objects always up-to-date; time savings on data entry, less errors due to obsolete documentation or data entry errors

o Add any type of structured data to the repository and audit / search / x-ref it flexibility; may eliminate the need for yet another tool

o Audit / Query on any repository object estimated time savings of 5' to 10' per query query without tool (i.e. using REXX, ISRSUPC…)

o All the information inside E-GEN iCAN (e.g. Run Books), can be made available to any person (e.g. Ops, Dev) via Intranet or via native iCAN Client savings on time / data entry / update

o Unlimited number of servers and users for a given geographical site

o No upgrades for any reason – no hidden clauses nor small print


QA – Quality Assurance

E-GEN iCAN allows you to verify any kind of element:

o Against any internal or imported reference (list, table, catalogue…)

o Via an ad hoc procedure, which verifies the compliance with an existing norm or rule

• Sample verifications :

o JOBNAME Composition: e.g. the 3 first JN characters = App Code

o Intra-Step / Intra-Job / … file naming convention

o Search for unused files (dead ; only created but never reused…)

o FORMS names used in the JCL external correspondence table of usable EOS Forms

o Allowed / forbidden values

o Inventory

o …


iCAN Roadmap

iCAN is a live product – following are some upcoming features:

• New types of graphs in the GUI (new graphical optimization algorithm)

o Over 20 formats available (bmp, gif, jpg, png, svg…) and exportable

• Support for any type of Excel graphs automatic Excel start in graphical mode

• Dynamic analysis / audit of external flat files, WITHOUT importation into the repository


Install

Populate

Understand

Use

Manage

Produce an immediate ROI

Benefits

In a single word EASY to


The best tool for Z/OS Op’s People


Questions?

Contact us !

• www.iscsoftware.com

• [email protected]

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