Mainframe Cost Optimization

• Understand what’s driving IBM mainframe software charges with the easy-to-use dashboards, intelligent discovery, and predictive analytics of Cost Analyzer for zEnterprise®.
• Easily identify key drivers of peak resource usage that contribute to MLC costs.
• Get insightful reports and model the cost impact of changes, while tracking and forecasting your software budget.
• Predict the costs associated with deploying new applications, selecting a new pricing model, or making changes to your workloads.

• Intelligent Capping for zEnterprise® helps you reduce and manage peaks to save on MLC costs without impacting service levels.
• Protect the most critical workloads from being capped and manage the cost of non-critical workloads.
• Reclaim unused capacity for significant savings.
• Confidently lower costs with patented cost-aware and importance-aware technology.

Subsystem Optimizer for zEnterprise® significantly reduces MLC costs while safely improving subsystem communication and failover capability to maximize availability.

• Move or isolate the most expensive MLC subsystems—like Db2, CICS, IMS, and MQ—and run them on separate logical partitions.
• Change the MLC math to drastically reduce costs using standard IBM APIs.
• Add an important failover capability that you don’t have today with any other solution to maximize availability.