Overview

Atrium Discovery v8.2 introduces the ability to discover IBM z/OS mainframes through its use of a z/OS agent. The mainframe partitions and related hardware details are discovered by the core discovery engine as described here while software on the mainframe is discovered using the Bulk Software Discovery pattern module.

Software Pattern Model

Pattern Trigger

The pattern triggers when the information about installed software has been retrieved and parsed by the z/OS agent.

SI Creation

Once the triggered the Mainframe pattern interprets the z/OS agent provided information further and creates a Software Instance for each identified software product.
 Mapping of software products is maintained within a table in the pattern module.

Clustered Software Identification

If the pattern determines that the identified software runs within an application cluster, an additional attribute is created '__clustered' and set to 'true'.

IMS Data Sharing Group

Utilising the __sysplex_name attribute on the SI, the pattern will create a SoftwareCluster that represents an IMS Data Sharing Group.