BMC Software has unveiled a major new offering in its Batch Impact Manager, which is said to reduce the time needed to resolve IT bottlenecks in batch environments, thereby enabling customers to deliver their business services efficiently.
The company claimed that its Batch Impact Manager offers the batch-processing tool that can predict problems and recommend ways to avoid them, and also provides ways to fix the issues completely. When a critical process fails, the BMC Batch Impact Manager alerts the IT staff, telling them what happened and also provides step-by-step instructions on various ways to resolve the problem.
The BMC Batch Impact Manager reportedly uses real-time and statistical information on job-execution times to predict when delays will occur, and provides recommendations for how to bypass them altogether. It works with the company’s CONTROL-M software, the workload automation product.
The company has also made updates to BMC CONTROL-M. The product now automates database processes. By integrating database transactions into the enterprise workload automation environment, the BMC CONTROL-M for Databases guarantees on-time processing and availability of business information, the company noted.
Bill Miller, president of mainframe service management at BMC, said: “The new BMC Batch Impact Manager expands on the strengths of the previous version. Now, instead of simply identifying delays or failures, it will tell our customers what they need to do to solve the problem. That’s a first for the industry, and it will dramatically improve our customers’ operational efficiencies.”
