New Products From Tivoli Enable Management of Business System Applications, Middleware Across Mainframe and Distributed Environments

Business Wire, June 2, 1998

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 2, 1998--

Offerings Extend MQSeries Management to OS/390; Enables Management of CICS and MQSeries Applications From a Single Interface

Tivoli Systems Inc, the world's leader in network, systems and applications management, today announced two new products that enable end-to-end host and distributed management for business applications using strategic middleware products such as IBM's MQSeries and CICS. For the first time, middleware can be managed as an interdependent component of mission critical business applications, allowing administrators to monitor the relationships between the application and the middleware layer as well as between the middleware products themselves.

The company announced new releases of its Tivoli Global Enterprise Manager and the Tivoli Manager for MQSeries as part of this integrated solution. The latest release of the Tivoli Global Enterprise Manager includes enhanced scalability features for managing large, complex application and middleware environments, as well as new tools that enable enterprises to quickly design and implement applications management using Global Enterprise Manger business system management view. The new Global Enterprise Manger version also has the capability to manage CICSplex computing environments through built-in integration with IBM's CICSPlex System Manager.

MQSeries is often employed by IT managers to handle the data flow between host and distributed applications. Release 2.0 of the Tivoli Manager for MQSeries extends MQSeries management to OS/390 environments, enabling customers to understand the business impact of end-to-end message throughput, channel availability and MQSeries diagnostics. In addition, Global Enterprise Manager 2.1 includes management of CICS, enabling applications that use both MQSeries and CICS spanning mainframe and distributed environments, to be managed by a single integrated product.

"Tivoli's new products are like giving IT managers X-ray glasses that let them peer into the applications and middleware layers of their systems," said Mike Turner, Tivoli's vice president of Applications Management Solutions. "Without these new solutions, IT managers are forced to use a disjointed management approach that obscures the view of how middleware products interact with other systems applications, leading to gross inefficiencies in detecting and correcting problems that occur in large enterprise-wide-applications."

"This announcement is validation of Tivoli's end-to-end business system management approach," said Alfred Spector, general manager, IBM Transaction Systems. "By combining Tivoli's robust MQSeries management solution with the business-centric view provided by Global Enterprise Manager 2.1, IT managers can get the best available management solution to quickly deliver ROI and total competitive advantage of their MQSeries networked applications."

By definition, middleware products such as MQSeries interact with other application components such as databases, application services, and even other middleware products. Managing MQSeries in isolation fails to provide vital information about the impact that system health has on these other components. Managing MQSeries in the context of the application and other critical system and database components provides a comprehensive view of the entire environment, improving problem detection, determination, automated correction and ultimately increasing application availability.

Tivoli Global Enterprise Manager 2.1

The Tivoli Global Enterprise Manager is the industry's first enterprise management solution that delivers true end-to-end business systems management. Global Enterprise Manager allows the users to quickly determine the status and business impact of any resource failure.

The latest version of Tivoli Global Enterprise Manager includes the Tivoli Module Builder, a tool that automates the creation of management-ready applications for in-house and commercial applications developers, providing IT users with a fast return on investment. Tivoli Global Enterprise Manager also provides a suite of graphical design tools for developing business system models, enabling IT users to quickly customize management views to match their mission-critical enterprise applications. In this matter, custom applications, packaged applications and middleware components can all be managed from a unified view, showing the relationships, data flows and interdependencies among business system components.

Tivoli Manager for MQSeries

Tivoli Manager for MQSeries provides comprehensive, life-cycle management of MQSeries networks including MQSeries deployment, configuration, operational control, availability and performance monitoring. In addition, Tivoli Manager for MQSeries manages MQSeries in context with its supporting operating system and network infrastructure, reducing problem detection, diagnosis, and correction times for MQ applications.

Tivoli's new MQSeries offering extends Tivoli's management of MQSeries to the OS/390 environment, providing administrators with a single, end-to-end view of the MQSeries network. Also included in the release is integration with Global Enterprise Manager, which provides logical topology views of the MQSeries network and allows MQSeries to be managed as one of multiple components that make up an enterprise business system.