By Rich Ptak
Seasons change. New technologies emerge. Next-gen solutions
proliferate. Analysts pontificate. Fads burst on the scene, then disappear. Solutions
appear for problems you never knew you had. It seems that opinions, advice and
recommendations for optimizing operations, increasing margins, attracting
productive millennials are more numerous, louder and more insistent than ever.
Log onto the internet, scan your e-mail or turn on your mobile device and
someone is there to tell you how to solve whatever problems you have.
However, for those in the enterprise and IT, the basic issues
that disrupt peaceful slumbers of managers and staff alike persist. For
mainframe (and other) IT operations, issues that just won’t go away include:
- Solutions and tools must be increasingly approachable and easy to use, as the workforce changes and technologies evolve.
- While hardware costs may drop and more economical specialty engines proliferate, operational costs continue to rise and must be controlled.
- CPU and MIPS utilization rise driving up the cost and expense of software licenses and resource consumption.
- Getting information that helps understand, manage and control mainframe software costs has been a difficult and frustrating task.
As we’ve mentioned before[1], BMC’s mainframe group has
shown itself to be especially responsive to the concerns and efforts of
mainframe users to optimize, not simply minimize, the costs and expense of
mainframe operation.
Therefore, it comes as no surprise that they took on the
challenge of making sense of the available data about mainframe software
utilization (MLC software) and resource (MIPs) consumption. The recently
shipping BMC Cost Analyzer for zEnterprise[2] uses the same data used in
IBM’s Software Cost Reporting Tool (SCRT). Familiar to mainframe management and
operations staff, SCRT software data has been notoriously difficult to use.
Until now.
BMC’s solution uses data for both MLC (Monthly License
Charge) and 4HRA (4 Hour Rolling Average) to create reports that provide
insight and information to get software costs and MIPs consumption under
control. Using models developed by BMC and minimal customer data input costs
can be determined by product, CPC as
well as average and incremental costs. Early use customers have found[3] that they can realize MLC
savings ranging from 5% to 20% (or more) based on the insight they now have
into what is driving up costs.
Based on the demonstration we were shown, it’s clear to us
that zEnterprise mainframe customers of all sizes can get immediate value from
this solution. And, the glimpse into BMC’s roadmap for the future indicates to
us that there will be even more as they move forward. We highly recommend a
look at BMC Cost Analyzer for zEnterprise to all current users.
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[1]
See commentaries and papers about BMC Capacity Optimization at http://www.ptakassociates.com/content/
[2]
See description at: http://www.bmc.com/products/product-listing/cost_analyzer_z_enterprise.html
Helping customers save on license costs with MLC cost and capacity optimization is something that ESAi and zIT Consulting have been doing for some time with its zDynaCap and zPriceManager solutions. BMC new product entry in this space further validates that need.
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