Disk analysis and management

DASD-Plus delivers diagnostics, analytics, reporting for disk including iASP. Monitor disk resources with automatic and continuous disk spike monitoring, IFS management, cleanup, file reorgs & manage temp files.

DASD-Plus Alert offers real time-spike detection, notification services, and data collection of root cause information. It detects disk-consuming objects that operators might miss, and immediately notifies them of potentially disastrous problems. Detailed disk analysis and reporting and accurately forecast future disk requirements.

DASD-Plus Chart creates graphical displays of your reported results for quick at-a-glance analysis.

DASD-Plus is an advanced System i management tool. It provides both strategic and tactical tools to assist in managing your enterprise-wide System i disk resources. Strategic solutions relate to tracking, analysis, forecasting, and reporting on disk utilization, while tactical solutions involve reclaiming, organizing, and optimization of disk space.

A uniquely designed tool, DASD-Plus handles all of these issues, automatically. Using your criteria, it automates the mundane, but critical tasks of managing disk space on local and remote System i systems. It provides greater machine throughput and performance, definitive cost-savings, and the ability to forecast future DASD requirements. All of this products routines are parameter-driven, with the flexibility to dictate how much and when System i processor time is spent doing housekeeping tasks.

Strategic and tactical

Detailed, accurate analysis of disk usage
•   Track everything that is stored on your DASD enterprise-wide
•   Analyze usage by library, file, user, group, total disk, or any user-driven criteria

Comprehensive disk utilization and forecasting reports predict growth
•   Variance reports show what happened, when, and where
•   25 Built-in standard reports plus easily defined custom reports

Central, automated management of unlimited remote System is
•    Automated, rules-based functionality
•   "Set it and forget it" operation

"What if" function
•   Shows what objects can be removed
•   Simulates the resulting savings

Disk management function
•   Allows reorganizing and reclaiming of library, file, spool and document space based on user-defined criteria
•   Reorganize based on percentage of deleted records
•   Manage all queues by status and age
•   Clear saved/unsaved log and journal entries based on age
•   Clear empty or superceded files
•   Delete replaced or reclaimed objects
•   Reorganize documents by change date

Load and use
Installs complete with ready-to-run jobs that will save you time and effort in the proactive management of your disk resources.
•   No languages to learn or support
•   Maintaining and customizing takes minutes, not days.