About CA MIM

CA MIM for z/OS is the industry standard for sharing DASD, tape, and console resources safely and efficiently in z/OS and z/VM multiple-image environments. The product streamlines and automates many of the procedures involved in sharing resources and enables multiple-system sites to share data center resources across as many as 32 systems.

CA MIM performs the following functions:

Provides a single point for interfacing with all systems and peripheral devices
Enables multisystem sites to share DASD and tape devices across as many as 32 systems
Enables multi-image sites to share unlimited consoles across a MICplex of as many as 128 systems. (This feature is available when using the ICMF communication method.)
Provides resource and data integrity
Improves user service by providing device sharing among systems, which increases resource availability, job throughput, and hardware usage efficiency rates

CA MIM is designed for sites with two or more physical CPUs running z/OS or z/VM that want to share and consolidate resources safely and efficiently. CA MIM also provides these benefits to sites with a single CPU, logically partitioned systems, or as a guest under a z/VM host.

CA MIM exploits your basic or parallel sysplex environment for maximum performance, allowing you to share resources among any mix of sysplex and non-sysplex systems, including resources shared across multiple sysplexes.