Directors of IT operations are under pressure to control or reduce mainframe operating costs while maintaining service levels to the business. Most have invested in automating mainframe monitoring and have realized savings from it.

To control zSeries operating costs, IT organizations need to be much more aggressive and strategic in their mainframe management efforts. They need to go beyond automating mainframe monitoring, to automating and integrating all aspects of mainframe performance management.

This paper describes how BMC® MAINVIEW® from BMC Software uniquely delivers aggressive and strategic performance management and optimization.