SERENA Software Announces Enhanced IMS Suppor
7/23/01
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MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 23, 2001--SHARE Conference -- SERENA Software, Inc. (Nasdaq:SRNA), an industry-leading supplier of software that automates change to enterprise code and content, today announced expanded IMS support for its Serena(TM) StarTool(R) family of application availability products. Many enterprise customers continue to use IMS as the database of choice for mission critical applications, because of its ease of use and lower resource requirements. The extended support provided by Serena products is important to enterprise customers that have a large investment in IMS and are looking for the highest levels of availability.
"IMS continues to play a critical role at large organizations in supporting mission-critical business needs," said Dale Vecchio, research director at Gartner, Inc. "IMS tools such as Serena StarTool can help companies continue to manage the vast amount of legacy data installed in IMS databases. These legacy databases represent a massive investment to most organizations with significant business value."
Serena StarTool FDM, File and Data Manager, is extending its IMS support to include database access for IMS BMP regions, and Serena StarTool DA Batch, Batch Dump Analyzer, will now support IMS applications using DLI or BMP regions. The enhanced support will simplify tedious programmer tasks, as well as provide enterprise customers with more options, greater flexibility and the industry's most comprehensive functionality for managing mission-critical applications to improve overall organizational efficiency.
BMP support for Serena StarTool FDM provides a quick and easy way to fix problems and incorrect data in online databases. Without this timesaving feature, customers would have to create and/or run special, hard to use utility programs, then validate the change. Serena StarTool FDM simplifies and speeds this process, freeing up valuable IT resources to enable organizations to work faster and smarter.
Support for IMS in Serena StarTool DA offers customers an automated way to locate information in an IMS application dump, thereby reducing the time it takes to solve problems in IMS applications. By creating a mini-dump in the sysprint of a failing application, users have all the information needed to quickly resolve the cause of an application abend. For further debugging purposes, the user may use the StarTool DA Viewer with its point-and-shoot capability, to do lower level debugging.
Serena StarTool FDM and Serena StarTool DA are part of the Serena(TM) StarTool(R) family of products for application availability. Serena StarTool, along with the Serena ChangeMan(TM) product family for automating application changes, are integral components of Serena's eBusiness Infrastructure Change Management strategy and framework for delivering enterprise Change Management to improve the quality and reliability of eBusiness applications, speed time to market and reduce development costs. The StarTool product line is an alternative choice for solving programmer productivity problems in the most common tasks undertaken by developers.
"Serena recognizes that IMS still owns a majority of data on the mainframe," said Tony Stayner, VP of Marketing, SERENA Software, Inc. "We have listened to our customers and are proud to respond with the support that they need to support this mission-critical environment for faster time to market and competitive advantage."
Availability
Serena StarTool FDM 7.2 is immediately available. Serena StarTool DA Batch 6.1 is scheduled for availability in Q3.