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Compuware solutions for zSeries maximize the value of your IT investments

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You are probably facing the same challenges as many large organizations: you need to lower your total costs as your business expectations rise.  To best accomplish your objectives, wouldn't it be ideal if you could leverage the applications you already have to enable business change and growth? 

You need tools that you can depend on—and that keep your costs in check.  With over thirty years of experience, Compuware mainframe technology is proven to be best of breed. Our tools maximize value by reducing CPU cycles, increasing developer productivity, and shortening the learning curve-providing substantial, immediate value to your organization.

Compuware provides complete application life cycle support to help developers, QA testers and operations staff, develop and integrate applications, perform thorough quality assurance measures, ensure production readiness and manage application performance.  We take pride in supporting your new and emerging technology investments to ensure that you have the support that you need—at any stage in the lifecycle.

The following tools comprise Compuware's offering for zSeries:

Determine program abend details with Abend-AID

Abend-AID fault management tools provide a consistent and automated process to help IT organizations resolve problems effectively. Abend-AID is used to:

• view application errors from a central location with detailed graphs and problem analysis to identify trends, problem areas and root causes
• automatically notify team members when a problem occurs so they can take immediate action
• collect data at the exact time an error occurs and specify corrective action

Develop quality code with Xpediter

Xpediter reduces the time needed to resolve problems by automating the analysis, testing and debugging process within the development life cycle.  Specifically, Xpediter can be used to:

• analyze the execution of business functions with an easy-to-use graphical interface
• manage risk, making sure untested changes don't go into production and determining what percentage of an application was exercised and how often
• identify and resolve logic and data problems quickly
• assess the impact of changed code.

Confirm application quality with QACenter

With QACenter, IT organizations can reduce repetitive, time-consuming tasks and allow accurate and cost-effective testing. With QACenter, IT professionals can:

• use their business requirements to create and manage tests
• validate the functional reliability of the user interface
• completely test traditional 3270 applications
• capture and analyze the TCP/IP, LU6.2 or WebSphere MQ messages that drive the IBM zOS server
• record traffic to and from the IBM z/OS server for auditing and help desk use.

Measure application performance with Strobe

Strobe reduces the demand applications make on system resources even in complex applications that use multiple languages, databases and teleprocessing systems. With Strobe, IT operations groups can:

• measure the activity of zSeries online and batch processing applications
• produce a Performance Profile—a hierarchy of reports that details where and how time is spent during application execution
• analyze measurement data interactively via a web browser and receive performance hints with iStrobe
• pinpoint the precise lines of code, database calls or system services causing application inefficiencies

Manage data effectively with File-AID

Developers can spend up to 60 percent of their time working on data-related tasks. With File-AID tools, you can efficiently and effectively manage your data in both the mainframe and distributed environments.   File-AID is a proven solution that enables your team to focus on delivering high-quality applications instead of becoming an expert in different data types.  With File-AID you can:

• protect sensitive production data used in the application testing environment
• analyze, edit and view data regardless of where it is stored
• create intelligent and manageable test data, reducing the test cycle and producing more reliable applications
• find, fix and prevent production data problems, ensuring greater application availability
• quickly transform and convert data with dissimilar structures and types, for cross-platform application integration
• enable DBAs to spend more time maintaining databases and less time answering developers' questions
  

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