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Protecting an Investment in OS/400
As the needs of the enterprise expand, the OS/400 platform must be able to integrate its business process data
with other systems and applications. This requires a comprehensive solution to meet the challenge of
application automation across heterogeneous environments. Most mainframe environments are the hub of IT
operations, and the investment in this infrastructure is a substantial part of the overall computing budget.
Workload Automation, combined with the OS/400 adapter, allows IT managers to leverage their investment in
the mainframe infrastructure by expanding its processing power across the entire enterprise.
Furthermore, IT organizations can no longer afford to manage data processing among these applications
manually, especially in the face of increased business demands for efficiency and competitive advantage. By
automating internal batch jobs, distributed workflows, business intelligence reporting, and sophisticated alerts
management, efficiencies are realized and complex services are executed faster with minimal down time.
Because of these imperatives, many organizations have turned to Workload Automation to fill the gap between
the OS/400 platform and their Windows, UNIX, Linux, OVMS, and z/OS environments, as well as to increase
the manageability of their OS/400 environment.
Batch and On Demand Processing – The adapter is designed to accommodate batch and on demand job
processing on the OS/400 platform, providing comprehensive support for the traditional date and time
scheduling model, as well as complex event and dependency-based processing.
IT Policy Alignment – Each job group can contain several job definitions that enable detailed control and error
recovery procedures. These procedures make it possible for IT staff to follow documented best practices
consistently. Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) processes in the areas of request fulfillment,
incident management, and change management can be supported, with interfaces and integration techniques
available for a range of ITIL-oriented operations environments,
Event-Driven Processing – In addition to time- and date-based scheduling, the adapter can dynamically
introduce jobs and entire business processes into a mainframe environment when triggered by business events
from a wide range of application adapters and platform-supported agents.
Flexible Monitoring and Alerting – Cisco Workload Automation Adapter for OS/400 allows users to view and
manage alerts within the scheduling system. Alerts can be automatically sent to email-enabled devices for
anytime, anywhere status connectivity and can be configured to initiate process recovery steps. Automated
actions are extensive and can be easily defined. They include sending an email message to the appropriate
owner, generating a message to the central console, or triggering an incident report to an IT support technician
via the appropriate ITIL-oriented operations systems.
Robust Security and Audit Capabilities – Security policy, and changes to it, are tied to enterprise security
management tools and processes. For example, access can be controlled in the areas of scheduling