Catalog Information Manager (CIM)

New procedures like disk mirroring may minimise physical catalog failure possibilities, but the potential danger of logical mistakes (created by software faults or third party products) still exists.

Routine works such as renaming of disk, removing or joining of catalogs take time and are often troublesome, and therefore reside at the bottom of a Storage Managers to-do list.

CIM can do all this

• Simple installation and integration into your catalog concept
• Significant performance advantages over all other catalog management solutions
• Optimises IDCAMS but uses mainly the DFSMS or internal z/OS system facilities
• Fast, secure and problemless backup and recovery
• Online reporting of all catalogs and catalog information
• User friendly ISPF interface