Mainframe Storage at Nexio

Data Management within the IBM z/OS (Mainframe) environment – to ensure optimal I/O performance is achieved, data integrity is maintained, and data retention is secured

• Optimal configuration of 3390 and Open-V disks by configuring the correct RAID levels for different data workloads
• Disk Capacity Forecasting and Capacity Planning
• Disaster Recovery procedures and processes – to ensure that all critical data is replicated to the recovery site; and the restore of data.
• Maintenance of system software – keeping software version at the current support levels
• Problem management via Service Management and recovery of services as per the agreed Service Level Agreements
• Change Management – Planning and execution of system changes to minimise down-time of system components and ensure maximum availability of services
• Perform standby duties to provide support to Operations and Application owners
• Maintenance and exploitation of relevant monitoring tools.

The areas of expertise are as follow:

• DFSMS (IBM) – a Storage Management tool to assign various attributes to data sets and objects:
• This includes data retention, characteristics, placement of data, and data performance
• DFHSM (IBM) – a tool used to ensure efficient usage of storage resources
• Virtual Storage Platform (Hitachivantara) - Managing of Dynamic Provisioning storage pools and creation of 3390 disk and Open Systems Luns.