Now on the mainframe you have the opportunity to manage your IT spend more effectively and expand the use of your existing mainframe environment without substantial cost impact. CA helps you scale IT capacity and performance with products that exploit mainframe specialty engines, enabling you to add workloads to your existing mainframe infrastructure. Maximize ROI, lower your Total Cost of Ownership, and improve overall performance with better resource utilization and strategic workload deployment – all while avoiding or delaying costly general processor upgrades.
zAAP and zIIP Products
Many of CA’s comprehensive set of products leverage the features and functionality that the mainframe specialty engines offer.
For the zAAP (System z Application Assist Processor) and the zIIP (System z Integrated Information Processor), we offer real-time and historical reporting and visibility, using solutions that include:
CA Insight Performance Monitor for DB2 for z/OS
CA MICS® Resource Management
CA SYSVIEW® Performance Management
Any CA product that uses Java or XML on the mainframe is a candidate for benefiting from the zAAP, including:
CA NetMaster File Transfer Management
CA NetMaster Network Automation
CA NetMaster Network Management for SNA
CA NetMaster Network Management for TCP/IP
We offer a growing set of software that is able to bring significant benefit from using zIIP, including:
Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL) Products
For the IFL, we have a full range of z/VM and Mainframe Linux management offerings:
Linux for Mainframe
Featured Articles
Article: Getting Value from IBM’s Specialty Engines
FAQ: CA Datacom®/DB r12 and zIIP Frequently Asked Questions (153 KB PDF)
FAQ: CA IDMS™ r17 and zIIP Frequently Asked Questions (154 KB PDF)