Operations Management

ASG Operations Management solutions make the most challenging IT environments easier to manage. ASG provides a comprehensive portfolio of market leading product solutions in all key facets within operations management. ASG solutions simplify both the complex day-to-day and longer-range operational tasks for operations decision makers and IT administrators in both the mainframe data center and distributed IT environment.

ASG’s broad range of solutions are categorized into Workload Automation/Scheduling, Workload Enablement/JCL Management, and Workload Analysis and Planning.

Workload Automation/Scheduling Solutions

• ASG Distributed Workload Automation for critical workload automation status to support business service management

• ASG Enterprise Workload Automation for multi-platform service level management of workload scheduling and execution across the entire IT enterprise

• ASG-OpsCentral for centralized management of enterprise scheduling workloads

• ASG-Zack for automated systems and event management

• ASG-Zack/VSE for automated console management

• ASG-Zebb for automated job restart/rerun system

• ASG-Zeke for z/OS and VSE enterprise event scheduling

• ASG-Zeke Agents for extending the power of ASG-Zeke to the enterprise

• ASG-Zena for distributed workload management and process automation

Workload Enablement/JCL Management Solutions

• ASG-Cortex-Prep for job setup, restart, and rerun functionality

• ASG-JCLPREP for analyzing JCL and enforcing JCL standards and syntax

• ASG-JOB/SCAN for comprehensive production JCL management

• ASG-Outbound Enterprise for open-platform file transfers

• ASG-PRO/JCL for advanced production JCL management

• ASG-Zara for automated tape management

Workload Analysis and Planning Solutions

• ASG-Cortex-Pdb (Production Database) for documenting application objects and attributes

• ASG-Cortex-Plan for automating job planning, scheduling, and monitoring

• ASG-DOCU/TEXT for comprehensive production JCL documentation

• ASG-INFO/X Enterprise for comprehensive production asset management

• ASG-Workload Optimization Suite for comprehensive workload analysis and forecasting

• ASG-Workload Analyzer for precise workload analysis

• ASG-Workload Planner for graphically presenting complex scheduling details