Change Management For Mainframe Systems Programmers

ChangeMan SSM - System-level Change Tracking Across z/OS

Virtually all stakeholders in the mainframe data center have a vested interest in application availability. Serena ChangeMan SSM delivers a solution that provides details about all software infrastructure changes that can impact Service Level Agreements (SLA). With ChangeMan SSM, systems administrators know who has made changes, what the changes were and when they made. Finally, systems administrators know that with ChangeMan SSM any change can be backed out reliably and quickly.

Serena ChangeMan SSM uses a unique fingerprinting technology to detect access (down to member level) and manage changes to datasets and PDS members. It reduces downtime - both planned and unplanned - by automating the distribution of changes across systems for disaster recovery, maintenance, data relocations, and consolidations.

Serena ChangeMan SSM is a single data management solution that addresses multiple IT data management challenges:

• Detects changes based on the content of a dataset or PDS member
• Provides an automated Disaster Recovery site solution
• Can identify unused loadlib members to reduce license costs
• Scans a DASD volume in minutes
• Reduces downtime for mainframe software maintenance and allows faster recovery from corruptions and disasters
• Increases communication and accountability across IT through change tracking
• Lowers ongoing storage and maintenance costs with access tracking

For additional information on ChangeMan SSM, download the datasheet.