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zPulse · by Technical Storage

Thirty years of z/OS expertise, in one app

zPulse reads your RMF, CMF and DCOLLECT reports on your own premises, and our z/OS experts read it with you. Disk, tape, CPU and space, in one place.

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clients rely on our studies
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measuring mainframe storage since
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Discover zPulse

Mainframe performance, made clear.

Thirty seconds, sound on: what zPulse does with your RMF, CMF and DCOLLECT reports. Disk, tape, CPU and space in one app, on your own premises.

Expertise + software

An application, and the people who wrote it.

Most tools stop at the chart. We have analysed z/OS storage for thirty years, and zPulse is what we built to do it. You get both: the software that runs every night, and an expert who tells you what the curves mean.

zPulse

zPulse, on your premises

  • Disk, tape, CPU and space studies from your RMF, CMF and DCOLLECT reports
  • Studies scheduled every day at the time you choose, a daily mail before the morning meeting
  • Installed on your own server: your data stays on site
  • Optional local AI summary of scheduled disk studies
Technical Storage

A Technical Storage expert, at your side

  • A free first study of your own data
  • One-off audits: performance, capacity, DASD and tape tuning, array migration
  • Recurring studies, reviewed and commented by an expert
  • Support and training included in the licence

Mode 1 · For storage engineers

Manual study

Choose a scope, start from the overview, drill down to the volume.

  1. Manual · 1

    Choose the scope.

    Pick the reports, the LPARs and the period: one day, several days added up, or two periods compared.

    • Single, accumulated or compared
    • RMF and CMF in the same study
  2. Manual · 2

    Start from the overview.

    One screen for disk, CPU and tape: what was busy, what was slow, and where to look first.

    • Disk, CPU and tape side by side
    • The worst first
  3. Manual · 3

    Drill down to the detail.

    From the overview to any of the 40 dashboards, then to the volume, the LCU and the quarter of an hour.

    • Hot devices ranked for you
    • Every chart exports to CSV
zPulseManual study› Overview› DASDDisk ActivityAverage SummaryHot DeviceCache DelayedHyperPAVI/O Topology FlowFront-End/Back-End

Mode 2 · For storage managers

Automatic study

Let the files pile up night after night. Every morning, one mail tells you what happened yesterday.

  1. Automatic · 1

    Let the files pile up.

    Every night your reports land in a folder. zPulse picks them up at the time you choose and adds them to a 60-day history.

    • Runs on your own server
    • Nothing to launch by hand
  2. Automatic · 2

    One mail, every morning.

    Before the morning meeting: yesterday at a glance, against the last 60 days, for disk, CPU, tape and space.

    • Sent through your own mail server
    • Charts inside the mail, nothing to open
  3. Automatic · 3

    Alerts that explain themselves.

    zPulse compares yesterday with its own 28-day baseline and flags what drifted. A local AI says why, in plain words, without leaving your site.

    • OK, WATCH or RISK, with the evidence
    • Reviewed by an expert if you wish
zPulseAutomatic study · PLEX1Every night at 02:00/zpulse/inbox/PLEX1Oct 01Oct 02Oct 03Oct 04Oct 05Oct 06Oct 07History53 / 60 daysTSZ0101I Study completed · 02:0406:00Your study, before the morning meeting.From zPulse · 06:02zPulse DASD AddInfo Report — PLEX1 — 07 Oct 20261.9 msAvg response, yesterday+12 %vs 60-day average3Volumes to look at60 days agoYesterdayDiagnostic · local AIWATCHPRD042 response time ×2.4 its 28-day median, 10:45–11:30IOSQ above baseline on LCU 00AC during the morning batchProbable causeA batch that misses the cache on PRD042.SuggestedSpread the batch over two ranks.

How we work together

Start with your own data. Decide afterwards.

No slide deck, no generic benchmark: the first thing we show you is your own system.

  1. 01Start here

    Free study

    Send us your RMF or CMF reports, or a DCOLLECT extract. An expert runs it through zPulse and walks you through the findings.

    • Secure upload, purged after 30 days
    • Optional anonymisation
    • Results call with an expert
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  2. 02One-off

    Audit

    A focused engagement on the question you need answered, with a written report.

    • Performance and capacity
    • DASD and tape tuning
    • Storage array migration
    See our expertise
  3. 03Ongoing

    zPulse + expert review

    zPulse runs your studies every night; a Technical Storage expert reviews them with you on a regular basis.

    • Disk, tape, CPU and space
    • Support and training included
    • Your data stays on site
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Four modules

Disk, tape, CPU and space.

The analyses of EADM, EATM and EAMC, now in one place, on a single data model, with history and scheduling.

In their words

What storage teams tell us

  • “The morning mail is the first thing we read. When something drifts, we see it before the users do.”

    z/OS storage manager · Private bank, Switzerland
  • “Their expert found the IOSQ problem in our own data in the first call. That is what convinced us, not the slides.”

    Capacity planning lead · Insurance group, Europe
  • “We ran the old tool and zPulse side by side for a month before switching. The history is now in one place.”

    Senior systems engineer · Public administration

Trust… but verify.

Vendors announce response times. We have measured them on real workloads since 1997, and zPulse now does it for you every night.Our motto since 1997

Get a free study of your own data

Send us an extract, we run it through zPulse, and an expert presents the results to your team. Free, and without commitment.