Unlock Cost Savings for your IBM z Systems Environment
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For many larger enterprises, the pressure to squeeze more performance out of existing mainframes, while avoiding or deferring major upgrades, is a top priority. Routine sort processing tasks such as sort, copy, merge, and compression take up a large and disproportionate share of CPU processing time and related mainframe resources. They are thus obvious areas to examine when seeking relief from mainframe cost and performance pressures. When evaluating potential solutions many organizations want to “try before they buy” to ensure strong ROI. We have developed tools to help you understand your batch processing and calculate your expected ROI. Watch this on-demand webinar to hear about: • How our Syncsort MFX solution drive cost savings • What a “try before you buy” evaluation looks like • How to analyze results for your specific situation
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Unlock Cost Savings for your IBM z Systems Environment
- 1. Unlock cost savings for your IBM z system environment Bill Hammond | Director, Product Marketing Alissa Margulies | Senior Sales Engineer
- 2. Housekeeping Webinar Audio • Today’s webcast audio is streamed through your computer speakers • If you need technical assistance with the web interface or audio, please reach out to us using the Q&A box Questions Welcome • Submit your questions at any time during the presentation using the Q&A box. If we don't get to your question, we will follow-up via email Recording and slides • This webinar is being recorded. You will receive an email following the webinar with a link to the recording and slides
- 3. Today’s topics • Mainframe customer priorities • Precisely can help • Predicting your benefits • Customer stories • Q & A 3
- 5. Mainframes host the most critical applications 71% 2.5 Billion $2.9 Billion 92 10 23 5
- 6. * Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 2023 ** Zetaly Mainframe Cost Control Blog post 6 Mainframes expenses represent between 20 and 40% of companies’ IT budget** 70% of sites think the biggest obstacle for mainframe acceptance is perception of being too expensive*
- 7. Optimizing SORT • Sort operations (SORT, MERGE, COPY) are very resource intensive: • Significant CPU cycles needed to sort records using sorting algorithms • I/O intensive – read input, read/write SORTWK, write output data sets Focus on reducing CPU time and I/O efficiency for sort operations 7
- 8. IBM zIIP engines IBM® z Integrated Information Processor (zIIP): • A purpose-built processor designed to operate asynchronously with the general processors in the mainframe to help improve utilization of computing capacity and control costs. • In use at most mainframe customers … up to 85% adoption* • zIIPs allow customers to purchase additional processing power without affecting the total million service units (MSU) rating • IBM does not impose IBM software charges on zIIP capacity, but charges apply when additional general purpose engines capacity is used Bottom line: • Once zIIPs are purchased they are used without any additional cost • Moving eligible workloads to zIIP reduces general purpose engine utilization and can save SW license costs • The big challenge is that most workloads are not enabled to run on zIIP * Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 2023 8
- 10. Syncsort MFX Over 50 years of continual development and enhancements Performance The high-performance IBM zSystems sort solution that delivers better performance and saves you money Proven Solution Improves sort performance while optimizing overall system efficiency zIIP Offload Sort workloads can be directed to the zIIP, thereby lowering the CPU time and costs Encryption Enhanced security and compliance with regulations such as GDPR 10
- 11. Reduced CPU time • Sort operations are resource intensive • Use less CPU time • Optimize job run times 11
- 12. Control MLC costs • Significantly reduces general processor operations • Allows sort work encryption to be completed on zIIP • Dramatically reduces CPU utilization and costs 12
- 13. Delay hardware upgrades • Delays hardware upgrades even as data volumes and workloads increase • Eliminates need for Capacity on Demand expenses 13
- 14. Meet SLA targets • Jobs complete faster • More work gets done 14
- 15. Justification for zIIP expenses • Offloads a significant amount of sorting workload to zIIP engines • Makes use of under-utilized zIIP engines 15
- 16. A powerful combination Syncsort MFX focuses on reducing CPU time and I/O activity for sort operations Syncsort ZPSaver zIIP-enables sort operations to control MLC costs and delay/prevent upgrades • Significantly reduces general processor operation • Makes use of under-utilized zIIP engines • Helps control MLC costs and delay/prevent CPU upgrades • Allows sort work encryption to be completed on zIIP, reducing CPU utilization dramatically and reducing costs • Sort operations are resource intensive • Syncsort MFX uses less CPU time than DFSORT • Syncsort MFX optimizes I/O better than DFSORT • Syncsort MFX encrypts sort work for required security and compliance • Faster execution means more work can execute in the same amount of time Syncsort MFX PipeSort reduces elapsed time for sort operations • Simultaneously executes up to eight differently sequenced sorts from a single pass of the input data • Uses advanced parallel sorting technology • Cuts total elapsed time by more than 50% compared to running separate sorts 16
- 17. Evaluating Syncsort MFX in my environment
- 18. Syncsort MFX key features • Dynamic Storage Management (DSM) monitors and dynamically controls sort performance and resource use • Dynamic sort work allocation technique acquires sort work as required during the sort step instead of allocating all anticipated space at sort initiation • Data Editing features perform a range of data manipulation functions without additional programming • Encrypts sort work data sets to provide enhanced security and compliance with regulations such as GDPR • Available Features • Syncsort ZPSaver - Offload 90% of your Copy, SMS Compression, and Sort CPU cycles to zIIP • Syncsort PipeSort - offers the fastest way of sorting the same file many times with different key sequences • Syncsort PROCSort - a high-performance, transparent replacement for the SAS-provided sort procedure PROCSort 18
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- 22. Customer stories
- 23. Leading telecommunication firm “Syncsort MFX allowed us to avoid a costly upgrade in capacity on demand and also lower software costs.” — Senior technical analyst O b j e c t i v e • Complete required billing work during the daily batch window without increasing mainframe hardware and software licensing costs C h a l l e n g e • 100% CPU during batch window • Jobs impacted and work not completing during batch window • How to fix the situation without costly upgrades S o l u t i o n • Syncsort MFX + Syncsort ZPSaver, the zIIP offload solution B e n e f i t • Immediate reduction in CPU time and elapsed time • Reduction in CPU time in batch window prevented increasing capacity on demand • Jobs completed in batch windows, avoiding impacting other work • Reduction in software cost due to a decrease in consumed MSUs 23
- 24. International credit card processor Found $1,500,000 in annual savings by deploying Syncsort ZPSaver O b j e c t i v e • Drive down mainframe costs via efficiencies such as zIIP offload, tuning, elimination of work or offload to distributed systems C h a l l e n g e • Cost of any software solution must be offset by hard dollar savings • Cost savings can be achieved by substantial reduction of MSUs in peak 4HRA window which occurs during batch processing • As CPU is freed in peak window latent demand moves in and negates savings S o l u t i o n • Syncsort ZPSaver showed average savings of 35 MSUs per hour in peak 4HRA window translating to an annual savings of $1,500,000 in MLC • A 2nd POC was underway to address the concern with latent demand by gradually lowering the defined MSU cap • The lengthy 2nd POC was cut short with offer of a special bundled price with the MFX renewal that lowered the justification requirements B e n e f i t • Reduction in mainframe MLC costs via zIIP offload during peak 4HRA window • Transparent to existing sort jobs; no changes needed • An easier justification and acquisition process within procurement cycle for the renewal 24
- 25. Major automobile manufacturer Efficiency gained with Syncsort MFX & Syncsort ZPSaver resulted in delaying a hardware upgrade for almost and entire year O b j e c t i v e • Extend trusted relationship with Precisely by exploring another solution, in addition to Syncsort Optimize IMS, to address cost reduction goals for mainframe environment C h a l l e n g e • Was tasked with reducing mainframe costs but had no spare manpower resources to dedicate to tuning projects • Growing workload and data volumes in batch processes were driving need for hardware upgrades • Under-utilized zIIP processors required post-acquisition justification of the hardware investment S o l u t i o n • Syncsort MFX + Syncsort ZPSaver transparently replaced IBM DFSORT as the system sort utility with little investment of systems programming time and effort • Reductions in both CPU and elapsed times in sort-intensive batch workload allowed additional work and larger files to be processed with existing capacity B e n e f i t • Capacity projections pushed hardware upgrade out by almost a year delaying both hardware and software upgrade expenses • Significant zIIP offload more than justified financial investment in specialty engines 25
- 26. Sort performance and tuning service We can help you… • Understand the factors that affect sort and system performance • Review and tune existing applications to meet your performance objectives • Learn how to keep your configuration tuned as their environment evolves 26
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- 29. Syncsort MFX • Offers a high-performance sort, copy, and join utility designed to exploit the advanced facilities of the z/OS operating system and IBM Z, including zIIP engines. • Can significantly reduce CPU utilization for sort operations and optimize I/O activity to reduce contention to control software costs and delay CPU upgrades • Frees up general purpose MIPS for handling increased data volumes and new workloads • Drive cost reduction strategies by delaying CPU upgrades and reducing software charges. 29
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- Mainframes are still the backbone for the biggest organizations in the world 71% of the fortune 500 rely on the mainframe for their mission critical transactional systems and they are present in every vertical from FinServ to Insurance to Retail. When talking to these organizations, it’s not unusual to hear that up to 80% of their corporate data originates on the mainframe and that business is growing. The mainframe market is expected to grow to $2.9 billion by 2025.
- CPU cycles used Potentially raises LPAR MSU total consumption Could result in increased pricing Takes CPU cycles from other critical workloads I/O intensive – read input, read/write SORTWK, write output data sets Typically take long to execute because storage devices are not as fast as processors I/O to a device is typically single-threaded Contention and bottlenecks can result when workloads compete for the same storage devices Long running workloads may impact dependent workloads down-stream MFX focuses on reducing CPU time and I/O activity for sort operations!
- Challenge: With CPU utilization peaking at 100% in the daily batch window when critical billing jobs were running, this telecommunications firm was seeing the performance of the jobs being impacted, along with an occasional inability to complete all jobs within the window. They were looking at an impending upgrade which they simply didn’t want to budget for or take on. Furthermore, their 4-Hour Rolling Average (4HRA) MSU peak utilization was creeping upward driving MLC costs up with it and they had to find a solution to reduce software costs by reducing MSUs in that peak period. Solution: The company took advantage of a free Precisely SMF analysis to get a projection on how much they could save in terms of MIPS (and ultimately MSUs and MLC costs), and in elapsed time within their batch window, with Precisely’s industry-leading sort and zIIP offload solution ZPSaver. A flexible analysis, tailored to their specific needs, was performed to provide them with a clear picture of where ZPSaver could produce savings in general CP utilization, as well as reduce elapsed time, providing a justification for purchase. One analysis was done for all systems during all times of day, in another a refined analysis focused on the 4HRA peak window, and finally an analysis of several days where 100% CPU utilization was hit during the batch window was performed. Results This comprehensive analysis projected results that were astounding with an average savings of 72.4% in CPU time along with an 11% savings in elapsed time within their current batch window. After a quick install the company saw an immediate reduction in CPU time and elapsed time. Most critical was the reduction in CPU time in the batch window which provided additional head-room to stay within current LPAR caps and prevent increasing capacity on demand which would result in higher costs. Not to mention that critical jobs completed on time without impacting other workloads. They also benefited from a reduction in software costs due to a decrease in the MSUs consumed by sorting operations in the 4HRA peak window, and also are confident they can delay a processor upgrade which they saw as inevitable prior to deploying ZPSaver. Precisely ZPSaver is saving them money within their IT budget while improving operational efficiency. The mainframe team stands out in their IT organization for leveraging ZPSaver’s ready-to-implement innovations to address operational challenges and provide capacity for new opportunities.
- The CIO of a US credit card processor, delivered a mandate to her Systems Operations and Administration Division – drive down mainframe costs. She wanted to see it done via efficiencies such as zIIP offload, tuning, elimination of unnecessary workloads or moving z/OS workloads to distributed systems. Luckily for the Sys Ops and Admin team who supported a sort-intensive batch process, Precisely had recently developed ZPSaver, a value-add to MFSort for offloading a very significant amount of sorting work to zIIPs. This solution was the only one that did not involve programming resources. The team did have to do their due diligence to confirm the cost savings but a POC demonstrated an average savings of 35 MSUs per hour in the peak billing window.
- A North American automotive equipment manufacturer had completed a successful Syncsort Optimize IMS (formerly DB/2) POC and a that implementation was underway when they heard about MFSort for z/OS & Syncsort ZPSaver from the Precisely team as another way to address their mainframe cost reduction goals. The Systems Manager was tasked with reducing mainframe costs but didn’t have the programming resources to dedicate to tuning projects. When he heard MFSort & ZPSaver could transparently replace DFSORT, use significantly less CPU time and elapsed time and make use of under-utilized zIIP engines, he was in. Based on the trusted relationship he had built with Precisely he moved ahead with licensing the MFSort & ZPSaver bundle after just a brief POC. He was able to show an immediate reduction in monthly software license charges and capacity projections showed an expensive hardware upgrade could be pushed out by a year.