z/OS Hosts

A z/OS host is any z/OS (mainframe) system on which CA Vantage SRM (with its GMI component) has been installed. The Windows Client communicates with z/OS hosts through TCP/IP. You can request z/OS system and storage management status information and initiate actions using TCP/IP.

The Windows Client provides enhanced editing and printing facilities, and lets you export data from z/OS hosts to other Windows applications for further analysis and reporting.

From the Windows Client, you can perform storage administration and manage objects related to storage management. You can filter and sort any object using any combination of attributes. For example, you can filter, sort, and view the data sets in each storage group, application group, or even the entire system, as if they resided on a single virtual volume.

On the z/OS mainframe, the Windows Client displays data graphically through the user interface. It also compliments the online facilities with logging options and historical analysis reports for any time period you want to examine.

CA Vantage SRM on a z/OS host provides generalized threshold monitors for all objects. With the Windows Client you can automate responses to various conditions and schedule the time of the response. You can implement a system-managed storage environment in which CA Vantage SRM automatically takes the actions you specified. You can also perform ad-hoc storage management by using the realtime actions available directly from the Windows Client.