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Z Asset Optimizer Overview

Are you getting the most out of your mainframe investment?

Copyright © 2019 HCL Technologies Limited | www.hcltechsw.com

Software Asset Management: Business Challenges

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▪ Maintain accurate inventory of mainframe software assets and their features, versions and maintenance levels

▪ Understand usage of software assets on each mainframe system and be ready for software auditing & compliance

▪ Plan for software upgrade to ensure production systems are running with supported version of software products

▪ Optimize software and operational cost

▪ Maintain accurate inventory of in-house programs

▪ Plan for COBOL compiler upgrade

▪ Ensure deployment and decommission of in-house programs

▪ Flexible software license to meet changing mainframe environment (eg. M&A)


Do you know what’s running on your mainframe systems?

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~50% mainframe operational cost are spent on

software related expenditures

Software

Discovery of software inventory

and usage required on every

mainframe LPAR

Analysis of data required to check

actual usage of software against

software entitlement

Accurate inventory and usage of software products give you visibility to what’s running on your mainframe systems.

Eg. Software products are deployed & retired as planned.

Tracking of inventory and usage of in-house applications are equally important to ensure your production systems are optimal.

Eg. Most frequently used programs are compiled for the platform.

Accurate software requirements give you power to negotiate a better deal with vendors.

Eg. How much software in my ELA do I really need?

Verification of software usage against software entitlement is important to avoid audit problems and identify areas to reduce software license cost.

Hardware

People

Others


Introducing Z Asset Optimizer

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▪ HCL Z Asset Optimize (ZAO) is a market leading software asset discovery product for IBM® z/OS® mainframe systems

▪ ZAO recognizes over 15,000 mainframe software products and features from IBM and other software vendors

▪ Software assets and their usage are discovered by a batch inquisitor and a real-time usage monitor

▪ Be software audit compliance check ready

▪ Optimize mainframe systems by eliminating less frequently used software and ensuring supported software is being used

▪ Plan for compiler upgrade to take advantage of new mainframe hardware investment

▪ Flexible licensing to enable usage tailored for your unique requirements

ReportingUsage

Monitoring

Batch Inventory Discovery

Accurate inventory and usage of software products give you visibility to what’s running on your mainframe systems.

Eg. Software products are deployed & retired as planned.

Tracking of inventory and usage of in-house applications are equally important to ensure your production systems are optimal.

Eg. Most frequently used programs are compiled for the platform.


ZAO Core Architecture

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Remote Mainframe Components Central Mainframe Components

All DASD

Batch

STC

TSO

Usage Monitor

Inquisitor

Usage Import

IQ Import

GKBGlobal Knowledge Base

LKBLocal Knowledge Base

Repository Analyzer

Raw Usage Data

Raw IQ Data


Discovery and Reporting of Software Inventory

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▪ ZAO Inquisitor is a batch job which discovers loadable programs in z/OS® data sets and z/OS UNIX Systems Services file systems – it locates load libraries by either scanning the VTOC of online volumes, or by searching the system catalog for relevant data sets

▪ Discovered loadable programs are identified as ‘product’ or ‘in-house program’ by matching against the information in the Global Knowledgebase (GKB) or the Local Knowledgebase (LKB)

▪ Information in the GKB is updated as part of ongoing maintenance of ZAO while the LKB needs to be populated by the user

What does it do?

▪ ZAO discovers all software assets physically available on your mainframe systems

▪ Over 12,000 products and features are recognized

▪ Compilers used to create ‘in-house’ applications are also reported

▪ See the screenshot of a sample inventory report and product trend report on the next slides:

Why is this useful?


Product Inventory Report

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Product Trend Report

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Monitoring Software Usage

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▪ ZAO Usage Monitor is a server address space that runs as a started task

▪ Invocation of programs in batch, started task and TSO are recorded

▪ Usage under CICS can be monitored

▪ Number of invocation of each program along with other accounting information on each system is reported

What does it do?

▪ ZAO reports actual usage of software assets on your mainframe systems

▪ Enables analysis of software usage for future planning to improve operational efficiency

▪ Enables planning for future upgrades

▪ Enables discovery of unexpected software usage

Why is this useful?


Product Usage Report

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Z Asset Optimizer for License Verification

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ZAO License Verification Open BETA

Accurate software requirements give you power to negotiate a better deal with vendors.

Eg. How much software in my ELA do I really need?

Verification of software usage against software entitlement is important to avoid audit problems and identify areas to reduce software license cost.

Software Inventory Scan

Software Usage Monitor

ZAO

Inventory Report

Usage Report

Software

License

Information

License Verification

Add-on

License Verification

Report

• ZAO Entitlement Verification add-on product extends the capability of Z Asset Optimizer product

• The add-on product enables users to import software entitlement information into the product

• The software usage information is compared against the entitlement to identify areas of discrepancies


Z Asset Optimizer for License Verification

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Open BETA


Z Asset Optimizer for Containers

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ZAO for Containers Open BETA

• The same benefit of ZAO except database and reporting engine are located outside of z/OS environment (i.e. no DB2 for z/OS database is required)

• ~95% reduction in CPU consumption by the product when compared to ZAO solution on a mainframe system

• Dockerized image for simple deployment – a virtual machine that resides on either a public, private or hybrid cloud environment can build and host Docker containers

• APIs with Swagger documentation to access the data and reports generated by ZAO:

• Easy to discover capabilities

• Easy to consume data & reports

ZAO for Containers

Software Inventory Scan

Software Usage Monitor

ZAO OnPrem Components

Data is exported to ZAO Containers

ZAO reports

Reports are generated from the container

Swagger documentation of ZAO APIs

ZAO data and reports are accessible via APIs

Leverage insight from ZAO!


Z Asset Optimizer for Containers

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Open BETA


Are you getting the most out of Z software investment?

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Software Asset

Management

Improve Service

Manage Risk

Reduce Cost

Improve compliance with licensing requirements

Enhance asset reliability and availability to deliver the most optimal service to the business

Avoid software over-purchases and financial impact of failed license compliance audits

▪ How are you currently monitoring your System z software

assets, usage and licenses?

▪ Do you know how many software products you have currently

deployed?

▪ Do you know what they are and what they cost?

▪ Do you know who is using those software products?

▪ Do you know how often those products are being used?

▪ Do you have a clear understanding of the multiple versions of

products installed?

▪ Do you have a clear understanding of products that may be

installed in multiple locations?

▪ Do you know if you are you over or undersubscribed?

▪ Do you know if there are any applications that are redundant,

out of date or not being used?

▪ Can any applications be eliminated or consolidated?

▪ Are all of your software licenses up to date?

▪ Would you be in legal or financial danger if you were audited?


Additional Information

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Need help?

▪ Our SME consultants can help to install and configure the product with minimal disruption of your daily tasks

▪ Recommendation based on consultation to implement the product most effectively based on your requirements

▪ Customization to ensure ISV software products as well as in-house applications are correctly reported

▪ Review product reports and assist in preparing project plan to optimize your mainframe systems

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