Batch Magic

Batch Magic is a powerful application for tape and batch window tuning and capacity planning.

It enables you to understand all aspects of your z/OS tape workloads so that you can make wise tape hardware investments, optimise the use of your tape libraries, and monitor the load on your virtual tape systems.

It also enables you to model the performance of your workloads on VTS hardware (IBM only).

Use Batch Magic for the easiest way of tape and batch window tuning and capacity planning:

Tape Performance Monitoring

Easily see how your tape workloads behave over time, and how each workload stresses your tape environment.

Batch Window Tuning

Batch Magic allows you to see which workloads are running concurrently and to gauge how rescheduling will affect the overall performance in your tape environment. This allows you to make sure that there is minimal tape activity from other workloads during peak-recall periods and maximise tape drive availability for the high priority jobs.

Capacity Planning

Hardware is expensive, but Batch Magic will ensure that your upgrade decisions are well-founded.

You can determine if you need to add channels, and whether or not an upgrade to FICON would be beneficial, and determine the number of drives that are required in a library.

Identify the Heaviest Tape Users

Batch Magic show exactly which programs and batch jobs are using most of your tape resources, and at what time of the day or night they do so to determine whether jobs need to be scheduled differently.

ESCON to FICON Migration

Batch Magic can provide the insight to know whether the throughput requirements for your installation on a per-library basis justify a move to FICON. Batch Magic will tell you which applications use the most bandwidth, so that you can accurately decide if those applications really need the investment in FICON capable controllers.