Formerly EADM
Disk
Response time by component, hot volumes, cache, FICON channels, I/O topology.
- SMF 74.1
- SMF 74.5
- SMF 78.3
- SMF 73
- SMF 42
zPulse · by Technical Storage
zPulse reads the RMF and CMF reports, DCOLLECT extracts, tape catalogues and VEHSTATS files you already produce, on your own server. One application replaces EADM, EATM, EAMC and 18 ControlCenter tools, and a daily mail is waiting before the morning meeting.
Guided tour · 2:24 · with sound
Six real zPulse screens from an anonymised CMF study, explained by a performance engineer: what each chart measures, and what should make you react.
One app for EADM, EATM, EAMC and 18 ControlCenter tools
Disk, Tape and CPU carry the analyses of EADM, EATM and EAMC. The ControlCenter tools that were ported are listed by name below, each with a link to its card in the catalogue.
| Before | In zPulse | What carries over |
|---|---|---|
| EADMEasy Analyse Disk Mainframe | Manual and scheduled studies on RMF and CMF reports, the DASD AddInfo and DCOLLECT mails, and the AddInfo tools. | |
| EATMEasy Analyse Tape Mainframe | Tape catalogue studies, the standard report, tape performance and VEHSTATS mails, and the tape tools. | |
| EAMCEasy Analyse Mainframe Check | CPU screens by LPAR, the CPU MSU mail and the TS AddInfo EAMC tool. MIPS views need MIPS files written by EAMC. |
EADMEasy Analyse Disk Mainframe
EATMEasy Analyse Tape Mainframe
EAMCEasy Analyse Mainframe Check
| ControlCenter tool | zPulse tool | Module | Reads and notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| TSChannelFICONAnalyzer | Disk | Channel CSV | |
| TS CFW Utilization | Disk | RMF or CMF report | |
| TS Cleaner | Disk | Utility: cleans a CMF or RMF report | |
| TS IO Interrupts % TPI | Disk | RMF or CMF report | |
| TS.AddInfo (Reader) | Disk | AddInfo folder, 7 views in one tool | |
| TS.AsyncCache | Disk | RMF or CMF report | |
| TS.Dcollect | Disk | AddInfo DCOLLECT files, 6 tabs | |
| TS.FiconMonitoring | Disk | RMF or CMF report | |
| TS.LcuSsidAssociation | Disk | RMF or CMF report | |
| TS.OpenExchange | Disk | RMF or CMF report | |
| TS.SSIDAnalyzer | Disk | Read/Write-by-Hour CSV | |
| TS.VolumeDataSharing | Disk | RMF or CMF report | |
| TS Big Data Analyze | Disk | Compare_Analysis CSV | |
| TS.Analyze426 | Disk | CMF Dataset Activity report only | |
| TS.LparAnonymizer | Disk | Narrower: CMF and RMF .txt files only | |
| TS.AddInfo.EAMC | CPU | MSU files; MIPS views need MIPS files from EAMC | |
| TS.TapeAddinfo (V2) | Tape | Tape _Period files | |
| TS.TapeMountAnalyzer | Tape | RMF or CMF tape report | |
| TS.VehstatsReports | Tape | VEHSTATS files, 10 tabs | |
| TS.VirtualTapeIoActivity | Tape | RMF or CMF tape report |
TSChannelFICONAnalyzer
TS CFW Utilization
TS Cleaner
TS IO Interrupts % TPI
TS.AddInfo (Reader)
TS.AsyncCache
TS.Dcollect
TS.FiconMonitoring
TS.LcuSsidAssociation
TS.OpenExchange
TS.SSIDAnalyzer
TS.VolumeDataSharing
TS Big Data Analyze
TS.Analyze426
TS.LparAnonymizer
TS.AddInfo.EAMC
TS.TapeAddinfo (V2)
TS.TapeMountAnalyzer
TS.VehstatsReports
TS.VirtualTapeIoActivity
A few ControlCenter utilities have no zPulse equivalent today, for example Balancing Datacenter, K-SET Oracle detection and the SLS report reader. EATC, EADO and RTD z/OS are not part of zPulse either. Tell us which ones you use.
Already an EADM, EATM or EAMC customer? See how to migrate
Four modules
The dashboard of a study has up to 40 report screens: 16 for DASD, 8 for CPU, 10 for WLM and 6 for DCOLLECT. Space is the set of DCOLLECT studies. Each module has its own page, with the reports it produces and the files it reads.
Formerly EADM
Response time by component, hot volumes, cache, FICON channels, I/O topology.
Formerly EATM
Tape catalogue capacity, virtual tape mounts and response time, TS7700 VEHSTATS statistics.
Formerly EAMC
MSU used, R4HA, LPAR activity, WLM workloads and service classes.
DCOLLECT studies
Allocated and free space, fragmentation and defrag score by LPAR, storage group and volume.


Manual and scheduled studies
A study reads your files and opens a dashboard of report screens. You can drop .txt, .zip or .rar files in a new study, or schedule it to run every day on a folder.
SINGLE
A study on a single file. The simplest way to look at one set of reports.
ACCUM
Several files in one study, such as several days or the LPARs of a sysplex, with aggregated reports and a day-by-day axis.
COMPARE
Exactly two files, A and B, compared on a common HH:mm axis.
Export
A disk study downloads as a PDF of charts with the worst-volume tables. The charts export their data as CSV.
The results of a scheduled study are files and mails. The application shows its configuration and its status, not a results dashboard. A study is scheduled once a day, at one time.

The daily mail
Each scheduled study can send mails by Report Family. The charts are in the body of the mail, with no attachment, and the period covered is in the subject.
Disk
I/O and response time components by time slot, a worst-volume table, sections per filter (LPAR, VOLSER, STOGROUP, LCU), and native, hourly or daily granularity.
CPU
One mail per configuration and time slot, with three charts per LPAR: average MSU, sum of MSU and maximum R4HA.
Space
Allocated and free space by LPAR, allocated space against fragmentation index per volume, and an optional table of the 20 worst volumes.
Tape
Active and scratch volumes and capacity in GB, by tape type. It is not sent when there is no new catalogue file.
Tape
Tape I/O stacked by LPAR and response time components, with an LPAR filter and native, hourly or daily granularity, from RMF or CMF.
Tape
CPU, disk, TVC cache and other charts for each TS7700 cluster, with an optional aggregated cluster.

I/O response time by hour (ms), stacked by component
Previous days: average response time (ms)
The mail charts up to 60 previous days.
| Volume | Resp (ms) | IOSQ (ms) |
|---|---|---|
| DB2L03 | 0.61 | 0.12 |
| DB2L07 | 0.52 | 0.09 |
| PRD104 | 0.47 | 0.04 |
Period: 7 Oct 2026 · Charts are in the body of the mail, with no attachment.
Tools
Open a report or a folder in a tool and get charts and tables on one subject: channels, cache, mounts, MSU, space. Here are eight. The catalogue lists all 25, with the file each one reads.
From TS.AddInfo Reader (ControlCenter)
Opens a whole AddInfo folder at once in 7 views: Volume Summary, Front-End/Back-End Summary, I/O Summary, I/O Detail, Worst Volume Daily, LPAR Repartition and Leaderboard.
From TSChannelFICONAnalyzer (ControlCenter)
Channel utilisation, read and write MB/s, and FICON and zHPF operations per second, in 8 modes, for all LPARs or one.
From TS.SSIDAnalyzer (ControlCenter)
Cache read and write hit rates and the random and sequential split, by SSID and overall, in 7 modes including statistics.
From TS.Analyze426 (ControlCenter), CMF only
I/O by dataset, job or volume, over 24 hours or as the sum of 15-minute intervals, with detail per volume, worst-dataset charts and CSV export.
From TS.Dcollect (ControlCenter)
Allocated and free space for all LPARs, per LPAR and for one LPAR, the 50 volumes with the highest variability, and fragmentation index by storage group and by volume, in 6 tabs.
From TS.VehstatsReports (ControlCenter)
TS7700 statistics in 10 tabs: Analyze Settings, Read Write, Read Write Compare, AVG CPU Util, Mounts, Cache Total, Cluster Overview, Cache Throttling, Physical Mounts and Virtual Drives.
From TS.VirtualTapeIoActivity (ControlCenter)
Virtual tape I/O stacked by LPAR, with the Resp, Disc, Iosq, Pend and Conn components.
From TS.AddInfo.EAMC (ControlCenter)
MSU used, weights and defined capacity per CPC over time, in 5 tabs including MIPS.
Four of the 25 prepare or load data: TS Cleaner, TS LPAR Anonymizer and the two DCOLLECT imports. Nine need files written by a scheduled study, or by the former EADM, EATM or EAMC. Each card of the catalogue says which.
Optional local AI
For scheduled disk studies, a statistical engine computes signals from your DASD data, and a small language model running on your server turns them into sentences.
What it is not: it covers scheduled disk studies only, Ollama and the model are installed separately, and the model has 4 billion parameters. It rephrases computed signals. It does not correlate across LPARs, and it does not replace an expert.

Installation and security
zPulse is installed on your premises. There is nothing to install on z/OS.
An installer sets zPulse up as a Windows service that runs around the clock, so scheduled studies start on time. PostgreSQL is installed first. Windows only: there is no Linux or macOS version.
Open the same interface in a browser on the server, which listens on the server itself by default, or in the portable desktop application, which guides the first launch.
A request code tied to one machine, an activation code in return. The server needs no internet access. Trial, annual and lifetime licences exist. Support and training come with the licence.
zPulse sends no telemetry. The only outgoing traffic is the mail it sends through your own SMTP server and, if you enable the AI, calls to Ollama on the same machine.
FAQ
RMF and CMF reports as text files, DCOLLECT extracts, tape catalogues (DFSMSrmm, CONTROL-T/M and CA-1) and TS7700 VEHSTATS files. You can drop .txt, .zip and .rar files. Nothing is installed on z/OS.
No. zPulse reads the printed RMF and CMF reports, which you produce from SMF with your usual jobs. It has no raw SMF parser.
It reads a text extract of DCOLLECT data with columns separated by semicolons, not the raw DCOLLECT file. The defrag report also needs the FREXT and FTRKS columns. Ask us for the extraction procedure.
A Windows server and a PostgreSQL database. The installer sets zPulse up as a Windows service, and you open the interface in a browser on the server or in the desktop application. There is no Linux or macOS version today.
Nowhere. zPulse runs on your server and sends no telemetry. The only outgoing traffic is the mail sent through your own SMTP server and, if you use the optional AI, calls to Ollama on the same machine.
Activation is offline and tied to one machine: you send a request code and get an activation code back. Trial, annual and lifetime licences exist.
Yes. Disk, Tape and CPU carry the analyses of the three products, and zPulse reads the same kind of RMF and CMF reports. The zPulse history starts at its first run. MIPS views need MIPS files written by EAMC. See the migration page for the steps.
It depends on the size of your report files and on your server, so we do not quote a fixed time. Scheduled studies run unattended at the time you choose.
No. It is optional and runs on Ollama on the same server. It covers scheduled disk studies, writes a text file in the report folder, and does not replace an expert.
Yes, with a free study: send us an extract and a Technical Storage expert runs it through zPulse and walks you through the results. Trial licences also exist; ask us about the terms.
Send us an extract. A Technical Storage expert runs it through zPulse and walks you through the results.
zPulse is what Technical Storage built to do its own studies, after thirty years of z/OS storage work. An expert reads the results with you when you want a second opinion. How we work with you