Optimizing the Cost of Mainframe Operations

John Whittle
Sales Specialist

BMC and the Mainframe

BMC
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One of only two companies who have never believed that the mainframe is going
away

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Heres why

Dr Howard A. Rubin The Internal Combustion Mainframe www.rubinworldwide.com July 2010

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Expectations have never been higher

Optimize IT Costs
How do you get the most out of every person, asset, or project,
and make better resource allocation and sourcing decisions?

Demonstrate Transparency
How do you track cost and activities in your organization and
share that with stakeholders?

Increase Business Value

How do you ensure IT investments and operational decisions
are aligned with business priorities?

Manage Risk
How do you define and control risk in a dynamic, rapidly
changing organization and IT environment?

Assure Quality of Service

How do you meet performance goals across physical, virtual,
and cloud-based resources?
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BSM is a unified platform for running IT

Incident
Management

Knowledge
Management

Service Request
Management

Problem
Management

Demand & Resource

Management

Identity
Management
Asset
Management

Supplier
Management

Change & Release

Management

Service
Catalog

Application
Automation

Service Level
Management

Financial Planning &

Budgeting

Server
Automation

Service Cost
Management

Network
Automation

CMDB / CMS
Dashboards &
Analytics

IT Controls &
Policy Management

Discovery &
Dependency

Event & Impact

Management

Client
Automation

Mainframe
Automation

Capacity
Management

Enterprise Scheduling &

Workload Automation

Storage
Management
Data
Management

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Application Problem
Resolution
Performance &
Availability
Management

Middleware
Management

BSM helps you address critical initiatives

BSM INITIATIVES

Cloud Computing

Data Center Automation

IT Cost Transparency

IT Decision Support Automation

IT Governance, Risk, and Compliance

IT Service Management

Mainframe Cost Optimization

Proactive Operations

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Mainframe Cost Optimization Challenges

Application modernization
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Complexity can result in performance and

problem triage issues

Growing data & transaction volumes

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Failure to meet service expectations and

commitments

Efficient resource utilization

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Balanced use of general and lower cost

specialty processors

Mainframe skills risk

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Scarcity of experienced personnel and

company knowledge

BMC Helps You Optimize Mainframe Cost

Reduce mainframe
consumption and operating
costs
Use Intelligent Tools
Manage Performance
Exploit Specialty Processors
Manage Capacity

Mainframe
Automation
Capacity
Management
Middleware
Management
Data
Management

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Performance &
Availability
Management

Cost Optimization -- Use Intelligent Tools

Using the best tools available to support the
business and IT operations.
Requirements
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Minimize use of MIPs

Reduce peak period CP usage
Use new system and subsystem routines and
services
Automate processing dependencies

How BMC Helps

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Constantly upgrading products to minimize MIPs

usage
Exploit new services IBM introduces
Include intelligent processing to eliminate
unnecessary work (job execution)
Example: Large insurance company reduced
MIPs usage with conditional reorgs by 75%
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Cost Optimization -- Manage Performance

Manage performance through automated monitoring

and ongoing tuning of applications, eliminating
unnecessary spikes in processing
Requirements
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Improve performance
Automate monitoring and tuning
Reduce risk of runaway processing
Simplify and manage system proactively

How BMC Helps

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Automates performance monitoring across the

mainframe enterprise
Handles static and dynamic tuning of applications
Products designed to minimize MIPs usage
Example: Kastner & Ohler reduced MIPs consumption
of a DB2 application by 46% with SQL Performance
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Cost Optimization - Exploit Specialty Processors

Reduce monthly variable workload charges and

extend capacity through low-cost methods
Requirements
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Maximize use of zIIPs for processing IBM

authorized workloads
Free up central processing resources to support
increased business transactions

How BMC Helps

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Automatically offloads DB2 performance and

utility work to cheaper specialty processors
Models capacity use of zIIPs for maximum cost
reduction
Maximize current IT investments by exploiting
new technologies

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BMC zIIP Exploitation Commitment

Customers want us to zIIP enable our products

Customer Council Survey, January, 2011

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BMC zIIP Exploitation Results

BMC CMF Monitor and MAINVIEW for z/OS offload
significant work to zIIP
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Where BMC started with zIIP offloading

For 10 years, BMC MainView has been instrumental in

increasing efficiency and lowering operational costs.
With these zIIP-eligible z/OS monitoring tools, BMC Software is
yet again showing other vendors the way forward in mainframe
monitoring, said Thomas Heitlinger.
FIDUCIA has now offloaded 30 percent of its MainView workload
to the zIIP environment, reducing general purpose processor
utilization and saving a significant amount of money.
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Cost Optimization -- Manage Capacity

Optimize the balance between business

demand and low cost processing.
Requirements
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Improve use of specialty engines

Plan in terms of both cost and service
Forecast the impact on business
Identify problems before they happen

How BMC Helps

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What if modeling evaluates technology even

before acquisition if necessary
Balance use of specialty processors between
service requirements and cost reduction
Automatically model system growth including
business events
Easy-to-use modeling capabilities
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BMC Capacity Management for Mainframes

Specialty Engine Exploitation
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Modeling capabilities for specialty engines

All reporting tools report on the specialty

processors.

Explore benefits of moving work to specialty

engines

Model situations where measurement data

exists but the specialty processor has not
been installed

Cost-reduction Options
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Explore options to reduce costs through

workload balancing and bottleneck reduction

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Differentiators

Accurate Predictive Capacity Planning

Identify the resources that are needed, at the right time, at the right price

Faster resolution of SQL performance problems

Accelerates CPU cost reduction opportunities

Automated Storage Management

Dynamic allocation reduces storage footprint and related failures and outages

Innovative Architecture
Optimize resource usage dynamically leverage low cost processors
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Proof Points and Metrics

$ cost savings
ROI of $2.3M over 5 years via capacity productivity gains

% improvement in performance
23-45% improvement on average CPU time per SQL statement

% improvement in productivity
40%
in data access wait times during peak batch cycles
NA reduction
Auto Maker

% improvement in performance
40% reduction in MainView CPU Overhead using lower cost processors
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Summary
BMC offers its customers a holistic approach to mainframe cost
optimization
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Continuing to modernize products for minimal CPU usage and intelligence

processing

Managing performance continues to save MIPs usage by

Preventing performance problems that would consume MIPs unnecessarily

Using zIIP processors for part of monitoring work

Ongoing exploitation of zIIPs in more MainView, DB2 and IMS products

Effectively managing capacity of both specialty processors and central processors to
minimize the 4-hour rolling average (peak period)

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Questions?

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Predicting the Response Time Benefit

of Specialty Engines

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