Getting started

In today’s business environment, data availability is crucial as information-processing capabilities evolve to better accommodate round-the-clock, global business operations.

Organizations relying on mainframe applications need the ability to create backup copies of databases with minimal interruption of business-critical application processing. Shrinking batch windows and growing batch workloads are becoming increasingly problematic for many users.

The XBM products work with selected BMC high-performance utilities to provide increased data availability. XBM also integrates with other BMC products to let you proactively manage system-wide performance and data availability.

Important

The XBM user interface contains options that are not used with the snapshot, monitoring, or IBM z Integrated Information Processor (zIIP) processing features of XBM. This space does not discuss these options.

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