Batch Magic
Batch Magic is a powerful application for tape and batch window tuning and capacity planning.
It enables you to understand all aspects of your z/OS tape workloads so that you can make wise tape hardware investments, optimize the use of your tape libraries, and monitor the load on your virtual tape systems.
It also enables you to model the performance of your workloads on VTS hardware (IBM only).
Tape remains an important medium to store large amounts of information. With virtualization, tape storage becomes easier and more economical to use, and you can now maintain a secondary copy on a remote site without having to transport tapes. Newer options for FICON attached virtual tape systems can provide throughput capabilities well beyond what ESCON can deliver.
At the same time it has become more and more difficult to understand how to optimize your current tape environment, and which tape hardware decisions are really beneficial. This is especially true because modern tape hardware is shared across multiple z/OS images and the true picture of tape performance is only obtained by aggregating workload and tape hardware information from all LPARs.
Batch Magic efficiently consolidates information about tape usage across all your LPARs, even from several Parallel Sysplexes, providing a comprehensive overview of all tape activity. It can analyze weeks of SMF records to show you tape workload behavior and patterns over time.
Batch Magic's graphical user interface provides tabular and graphical output, allows you to change the focus of the analysis, and lets you zoom into a particular period or type of workload. There is no easier solution to understand and balance your tape and batch window operations.
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