Syncsort MFX 2.1 + ZPSaver Suite

John RedaSr. Director, Mainframe Support & Services

November, 2014

Agenda

Challenges of Today’s Mainframes

NEW - Syncsort MFX 2.1

NEW – ZPSaver Suite & ZPCompress

Getting More Value from Your zIIP Engines

Estimating ROI & Savings

Q&A

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Addressing Today’s Mainframe Challenges

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How to reduce software costs?

How to reduce processing times to

meet SLAs?

How to save mainframe

processing?

How to leverage zIIP engines?

How to optimize them?

How to manage resources?

How to defer hardware upgrades?

How to identify potential

processing savings?

How do I keep up with

legacy data & applications?How to securely access &

distribute mainframe data?

The Need for Faster, More Efficient Mainframe Solutions

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Mandates to Contain Mainframe Costs

Offloading to zIIP engines can reduce costs quickly and with very little effort

Focus on most expensive operations for a bigger impact: Sort, Copy, Compression

Offloading Mainframe Processing to zIIP

Savings alone are not enough

Increase raw performance

Leverage latest advancements to drive greater efficiencies & reduce elapsed times

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Do You Know Syncsort?

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• Syncsort provides fast, secure,

enterprise-grade software spanning “Big

Iron to Big Data”

• 50% of all mainframes run Syncsort

software

• Fastest sort technology in the market• Most trusted 3rd party mainframe software

• Over 40 years of innovation:• 25+ issued & pending patents

• Large global customer base• 12,000+ deployments in 80 countries and

serving 87 of the Fortune 100

• 1,500 mainframe customers

• First-to-market, fully integrated approach

to Hadoop ETL

Our customers are achieving the impossible, every day!

Key Partners

Syncsort MFX Product Line – Fastest Performance. Lowest Footprint

High-performance sort for System zMFX for z/OS

Reduce costs by offloading Copy & SMS Compression work to zIIP processorsZPSaver Suite

Perform up to 8 simultaneous sortsMFX PipeSort

High performance, transparent replacement for SAS’s PROC SORT

MFX PROC SORT

Unmatched support/services to meet an organization’s most critical technical and business needs

Platinum Services

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ZPCopyZPCompress

NEW

Release 2.1

Syncsort MFX – The Fastest, Most Efficient Sort. Period!

Syncsort MFX for z/OS:

Performance Comparison

Reduces Total CPU Time by 30 - 40%

Reduces Elapsed Time by 20 - 40%

Optimizes resource use

Exploits advanced system functions

Utilizes dynamic parallel processing to reduce elapsed time

Syncsort MFX Customers Achieve Significantly Faster Sort Performance and System Throughput at Lower Costs

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Syncsort Products Provide Tight Mainframe Integration

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CommunicationsI/O Devices

Mainframe Hardware

User-written Programs

MFX for z/OS

ZPSaver Suite

Ironstream

PipeSort

Utilities

Typical Mainframe Infrastructure

Operating

System

MFX

PROCSortISV Products

DL/2

DB, OLTP &

Middleware

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Syncsort MFX 2.1 – Better Performance, Better Savings

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Higher Productivity• More data manipulation functions such as field type

comparisons and parsed field identification

• 64-bit addressing for exits – E15, E32, E35 – and

invoking programs

Faster Performance• zHPF integration reduces elapsed time by up to 15%

• Enhanced OPTMODES Automatically tune performance

based what is important to YOU (ET vs CPU)

• Optimization for zEC12, zBC12 and z196 models

Syncsort MFX 2.1 – Better Performance, Better Savings

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Easier Installation & Deployment• Specify installation options in SYS1.PARMLIB• Greater flexibility. Support for multiple sets of options if

required by LPARs

Support for NEW ZPSaver Suite!• Move COPY & Compression workloads

to zIIP engines

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New ZPSaver SuiteShift Critical Copy & Compression Workloads to zIIP Processors

ZPCopyOffload Copy processing to zIIP processors

SMS ZPCompressOffload SMS compression work to zIIP processors

Syncsort MFX 2.1High performance sort, merge, and copy. Offload to zIIP engines. Save

significant CPU time while reducing total elapsed time.

ZPSaver Suite

Syncsort MFX 2.1 Provides Foundation for ZPSaver Suite

ZPCopy: A New Architecture for MFX COPY

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Shift COPY processing to zIIP Engines

Reduce Copy-related TCB CPU time by

up to 99%

Achieve up to 25% faster elapsed times

PLUS…

Completely Transparent to users and

existing COPY applications

Introduced on Sept, 2013

ZPCompress – Offloading SMS Compression to zIIP

Compressing mainframe data is critical to

contain costsBUT…

Compression can be VERY expensive too!

CPU costs vs. Storage costs

ZPCompress Can Help!

High-performance SMS compression running on zIIP processors

Reduce up to 90% of TCB CPU time for SORTs and COPYs of compressed data

No control card / JCL changes required

Meet or exceed performance SLAs

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Get More Value from zIIP Engines with The ZPSaver Suite

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Sub-capacity Pricing

Hardware upgrades

MSU-capped LPAR

Hosting / OutsourcingChargeback

Reduces billable CPU and contains overall software costs

Delays hardware upgrades as data volumes increase

Supports more work and frees up capacity

Results in lower fees and bills

Batch Window

Meeting SLAs & batch window reduces risk and associated costs to the business

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