We are so excited to announce the GA of IBM Z Backup Resiliency version 2.1! This has been a long-awaited release and includes key features that set the foundation for the future of resiliency within the IBM Z AIOps portfolio. IBM Z Backup Resiliency (IZBR) is an outstanding product that works to significantly enhance your organizations resiliency, while streamlining and automating key recovery processes. Looking at past and latest headlines, resiliency is a major buzzword we see all throughout the news. IZBR continues to eliminate resiliency barriers by offering a comprehensive view of your backup and recovery process, presented in a way that is easily understood, regardless of technical expertise.
There are 4 key results of this 2.1 release, each working to enhance the product for this current version, while also setting the stage for future amazing additions to the product.
1. Installation and Customization Improvements.
· The new z/OSMF configuration workflow provides a simpler installation and customization path tailored to the customer’s environment. The workflow not only provides an auditable process at install but helps to facilitate a quicker time for install, and in turn making the process more digestible for clients.
2. Database Re-Architecture: Replacing VSAM files with Db2
· The Db2 database provides greater scalability and reliability whilst providing a more efficient database framework to build Web UI functionality upon. For customers without Db2 (do not worry) VSAM files will continue to be supported in version 1.2.
3. Modernizing ISPF Data Visualization with New Persona-Based WEB UI
· The z/OSMF web application provides a customizable dashboard for checking and managing your resiliency status. Unique to each browser, the dashboard is made up of user configured tiles that can be configured to report on both critical files, and Db2 table space backups. Critical files that are without backup, and critical files that have been unexpectedly accessed (for auditing purposes), are tracked, and detailed information is available in the form of interactive tables. The overall backup percentage, also called the “Comfort Index”, is portrayed graphically for a high-level abstraction of site backup preparedness.
4. The Simplification of Architecture
· The SMF Extractor and TimeLiner integration reduces the complexity of the architecture, and product. The replacement of the current TimeLiner dataspace (DIV) with direct load into the Db2 database provides greater performance and scalability. Additionally, by using logstreams instead of data sets for the SMF extractor, the SMF analysis is now near real time
Resiliency is not going away and is only becoming more prevalent in an infrastructure. IZBR works to not only help you recover from a disaster quickly, but also works to better understand an incident in order to prevent it from happening in the first place.
We are thrilled to celebrate this new release and are excited to see how IBM continues to help our clients with resiliency!
Please register for our upcoming TechXchange webinar on November 19, 2024: https://ibm.biz/TechXchange-ZBR-webinar
Please tune in to our Z AIOps Podcast and the latest episode covering IZBR with speaker Rebecca Levesque from our partner 21CS: https://ibm.biz/Corner-ZBR