how to manage mlc costs to optimize the mainframe

How to Manage MLC Costs to Optimize the Mainframe

Introduction to

BMC Mainframe MLC Cost Management

The Mainframe: Powerful, Trusted, and Growing…

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What Drives Mainframe Costs?

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Mainframe MLC Cost Management Activities

Tune or MovePeak Workloads

Dynamic Workload

Capping

OptimizeSubsystem

License Charges

Cost Driver Awareness

AdvancedContract

NegotiationStrategies

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Paying15% Less

Paying15% more Maturity Model for MLC Management

MLC Savings

MLC Cost Management Activities

Tune or MovePeak Workloads

Dynamic Workload

Capping

OptimizeSubsystem

License Charges

Cost Driver Awareness

AdvancedContract

NegotiationStrategies

Using multiple MLC saving strategies can save 15-30%

BMC Intelligent Capping BMC Subsystem OptimizerBMC Cost AnalyzerBMC Mainframe MLC Cost Management


BMC Digital Enterprise Management is a set of IT solutions designed to make digital business fast,

seamless, and optimized from mainframe to mobile to cloud and beyond.

DIGITAL ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT

Digital Enterprise ManagementDEM is a set of IT solutions designed to make digital business fast, seamless, and optimized from mainframe to mobile to cloud and beyond.

Optimizing Mainframes for Digital Business

BMC empowers IT to optimize their mainframes for digital business through innovative solutions designed to manage mainframe data, infrastructure and costs in a fast changing digital enterprise.

Data Infrastructure Cost

Gear up for unstructured data and the extreme data volumes and performance requirements.

Shift to a dynamic infrastructure monitoring and management approach that will automatically adapt to changing patterns and volumes.

Aggressively optimize MLC costs. From cost transparency to dynamic capping and subsystem optimization to reduce subsystem instances that drive license costs.

BMC Optimizes Mainframes for Digital Businessfor Competitive Business Advantage By“BRINGING IT TO LIFE”


BMC Intelligent Capping 2.0

BMC Subsystem Optimizer 2.0

BMC Cost Analyzer 2.0


• Understand drivers of peak resource usage• Forecast and track MLC budgets• Model cost impact of changes to MLC• Improve resource usage with capping that

protects the most critical work • Optimize subsystem license costs by

separating MLC software

BMC Intelligent Capping 2.0BMC Subsystem Optimizer 2.0


Reporting and Forecasting MLC• Understand drivers of peak resource usage• Forecast and track MLC budgets• Model cost impact of changes to MLC software• Understand batch application

impact

BMC Cost Analyzer5-10% Savings


BMC Cost Analyzer 2.0NEW in 2.0:• Extends its insight into workloads

and specific batch jobs• Pinpoint the drivers of peak resource

usage with a more granular view of the impact of specific workloads and batch jobs on MLC costs

• Understand possible impact to MLC costs of moving or adding batch jobs

Dynamically Control Peaks• Dynamically reduce MLC costs with automation• Reduce peak 4-hour rolling average • Avoid business risk to high priority workloads• Balance increases in capacity with reductions • Experience cost-aware capping

BMC Intelligent Capping5-10% Savings


BMC Intelligent Capping 2.0

NEW in 2.0:• Patent-pending cost-aware capability• Changes made in capping only lower MLC

costs• Protection of workloads running through

Subsystem Optimizer• Other usability enhancements

Optimizing MLC Software License Costs

• Optimize subsystem placement to reduce MLC costs• Lower business risk of subsystem failure• CICS-to-DB2 and CICS-to-IMS DB separation• IMS TM-to-DB2 separation

BMC Subsystem Optimizer10-30% Savings

IMS TM CICSIMS DB


BMC Subsystem Optimizer 2.0NEW in 2.0:• Reduce MLC costs by separating IMS

Transaction Manager (IMS TM) from DB2• Separate CICS and DB2 when using IBM MQ

shared queues • Support for IMS 14• Lower business risk of subsystem failure

Driving Down Resource Peaks

Lowered peak 7% MLC Savings 9%

6-month ROI

A Growing U.S. Insurance

company

Rolling Back Monthly Costs

Lowered MLC Bill 20%

to 2013 levels

6-month ROI

A Major U.S. Transportation

company

Meeting the Need

“It’s encouraging to see a company introducing

products that help customers manage MLC

costs.”

- Director, Mainframe Operations

A Major Global Insurancecompany

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