Macro 4’s Application Availability suite of complementary solutions address each phase of the OS/390 application lifecycle to help organisations meet the growing demand for high quality, 24 x 7 service delivery – DUMPMASTER, fault diagnosis, INSYNC, data analysis and manipulation and TRACEMASTER, interactive program testing.
TRACEMASTER version 3.110 offers multi-user support for CICS applications along with browse/edit features for CICS Temporary Storage Queues and VSAM files in MVS and OS/390 environments. This new functionality increases operational efficiency by providing users with the ability to use their existing CICS environment to run program debugging without impacting on other users.
The new version of INSYNC, version 3.320, incorporates enhancements in all areas of the product and adds edit and browse functionality for users operating in an IMS/DC environment. This further extends the product’s applicability beyond the MVS batch and TSO/ISPF environments.
These significant enhancements further consolidate Macro 4’s position as a leading vendor in the Fault Management/Application Availability market space.
Roger Smith, Macro 4’s Product Marketing Manager, says:
Today’s IT managers are under increasing pressure to ensure that mission-critical applications are available 24 hours a day. Macro 4 has a proven reputation in the Application Availability market place and these latest enhancements to our solution further enable IT departments to meet today’s standard for service and maximum availability.
In line with Macro 4’s reputation as a quality, customer-driven, market-leading IT vendor, its Application Availability solutions offer favourable, flexible contracts and licensing as well as functionality to rival other vendor’s solutions without the cost burden – customers have experienced savings of up to 50% off existing fault management solutions.
CSC is a recent addition to Macro 4’s blue chip customer portfolio. Computer Sciences Corporation is one of the world’s leading consulting and IT services firms, helping clients in industry and government achieve strategic and operational results through the use of technology.
We require our software business partners to be flexible. Macro 4 offers solid products, attractive pricing and, most important, contractual terms that allow us to grow or change our computing infrastructure without penalty. This use of DUMPMASTER for the State of New York has expanded the CSC relationship with Macro 4 for our outsourcing clients, comments Tom Wielgosz, director, Global Resource Planning, for CSC’s Global Infrastructure Services Group.
