For an automation tool at no cost, other than your time/resources, take a look on the cbttape at TSSO - it works with z/OS, is free, and does some of what OPS does - perhaps most since you can write your own rexx for it. Balance the cost of your time/resources with the cost of a vendor product and as usual ymmv.
Good luck Lionel B. Dyck <sdg>< Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are." - John Wooden -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Gibney, Dave Sent: Thursday, February 6, 2020 8:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Downsizing? - OPS? The direction is clearly set. My z/OS 2.1 installation is heading for a sunset, sometime in the next several years. The Student Systems were ERP's to cloud systems not quite a decade ago. The remaining (HR/Financial/Etc.) are scheduled for migration to Workday (again, in cloud) July 1. There is still archive/historical data that wasn't moved and more that isn't moving. There is a need/plan to run reduced/read-only for an as yet undetermined time. We moved our 4 LPARs (Production, Development, 2 sandboxes) to a MFaaS provider at the end of 2017. Part of the plan is to reverse the path we took from 1 LPAR to 4 LPARS, back to 1 LPAR. Now, I need to plan to reduce the footprint expenses. In particular, we probably won't be renewing ISV contracts. I have z/OS alternatives to some (DF/SORT, DFSMSrmm, etc.) And, z/OS is part of the MFaaS contract. Although we do plan to consolidate LPARs and reduce the overall footprint. Which brings me to my question and request for advice. Given the constraints (free or native z/OS 2.1) what alternatives to CA-OPS would the community recommend. I know there's some in the firehose that is www.cbttap.org<http://www.cbttap.org>. I eventually need to leave WSU (in about a year) with a system that can coast 3 to 7 years with minimal skilled care. Dave Gibney Information Technology Services Washington State University ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
