IBM Data Mobility Services –Softek zDMF

1. Migrate datasets immediately without disrupting applications in
the z/OS mainframe environment
IBM Data Mobility Services –
Softek zDMF
Delivering a nondisruptive data migration Interactive System Productivity Facility
Highlights solution to help reduce your overall (ISPF) interface, Softek zDMF provides
storage costs—regardless of vendor and an alternative to time-consuming man-
■ Enables flexibility to immedi-
disk capacity ual dataset-level migrations. With the
ately migrate datasets across
Many IT organizations want to take capability to migrate groups of datasets
major hardware vendors and
advantage of the large-capacity vol- across major hardware vendors and
different disk capacities without
umes on today’s more cost-effective, between different disk capacities,
application disruption
high-performance storage subsystems, Softek zDMF helps you move away
but are faced with complex and disrup- from error-prone manual dataset-level
■ Completes DB2 data migration
tive data migrations that negatively migrations, avoid downtime that can
without application outage
impact their business applications. impact operations and service-level
to reclaim and redeploy
Because data conversion onto large agreements (SLAs), and reduce the
DB2 storage
volumes is time consuming and complexity of managing large migra-
involves long application outages, IT tions. And with an accelerated dataset
■ Automatically consolidates and
specialists across organizations recog- migration, you can reduce the cost of
migrates selected dataset
nize the need for tools that can help deploying new mainframe storage
extents of a multivolume
them move data with greater flexibility, while helping to lower IT labor costs
dataset, and offers a scheduled
efficiency and reliability at a lower cost and minimize lease and maintenance
divert option
while also enabling greater responsive- overlaps—all while virtually eliminating
ness to a dynamic marketplace. outages.
IBM Data Mobility Services – Softek Providing dataset-level migrations without
z/OS® Dataset Mobility Facility (zDMF) affecting application availability
host-based software is designed to This host-based software migrates
move critical allocated mainframe datasets nondisruptively across
datasets while helping to ensure your major hardware vendors and different
applications remain online and avail- disk capacities without disrupting
able. By using dataset grouping and applications—freeing you from manual
migration control through an online

2. dataset migration and potentially that can be used to support new busi- of manually issuing the DIVERT
speeding deployment of new storage ness expansion initiatives. Softek zDMF command. And, rather than a single
technology. Softek zDMF enables MOD software helps you increase system approach to data migration, zDMF
consolidation of any size, including growth by: allows you to migrate selected extents
MOD 3, MOD 9 and MOD 54, as well of a multivolume dataset. For example,
as Extended Address Volumes (EAV) ● Providing better UCB management if you have a dataset that occupies
capability. Through streamlining of to allow continued growth of more than one volume, you can migrate
closed dataset copying, Softek zDMF business-critical information only those extents that reside on a spe-
enables you to copy data for datasets ● Enabling immediate redeployment cific volume instead of migrating all
that are closed when migration begins, of source storage configuration to extents across all volumes. This capa-
allowing for faster migration of datasets accommodate growth and prevent bility can shorten migration time, cir-
not in use. Because Softek zDMF also unplanned additional hardware cumvent the need for additional storage
helps to simplify the pre-migration purchases and enable more efficient migration
process and provides the ability to ● Exceeding previous industry- management through automation.
immediately address unpredictable per- standard storage capacity of 65K
formance issues, you can see improved cylinders through enhanced EAV Why IBM?
performance and potentially lower costs functionality By integrating proven best practices
through improved storage efficiencies. ● Using nondisruptive migration and expertise from IBM with Softek
capabilities to sustain data integrity data mobility technology and tools,
Establishing effective UCB management and business service levels IBM can help you minimize the risks,
and extent consolidation ● Reducing the number of logical vol- costs and application outages associ-
Moving and consolidating datasets from umes on a device by consolidating ated with data migration. IBM has used
multiple smaller-volume subsystems to several small-capacity volumes onto Softek’s trusted data migration technol-
larger-volume subsystems can enhance fewer large-capacity volumes ogy in more than 1,800 migration
unit control block (UCB) management. projects. Today, more than 800 organi-
Additionally, Softek zDMF can complete Enabling a pending or scheduled divert zations worldwide rely on Softek tech-
an IBM DB2® data migration without option and selective extent migration nology to migrate more than a petabyte
application outage, enabling you to Softek zDMF helps you to either sched- of data every year.
immediately reclaim hundreds of UCBs ule a DIVERT command or set a “divert
when ready” option to allow automated
transition to the diversion phase instead

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