SYSB-II case studies
See how SYSB-II can make batch part of your data-on-demand strategy and provide 24/7 availability to CICS applications while leveraging your existing investment in the IBM mainframe, application software, and file systems.
Standard Life ensures customer service and SLAs, reduces costs
The Standard Life Assurance Company of Canada, one of the leading companies in the financial services industry in Canada, provides asset management services to more than 1.3 million Canadians. To stay ahead of the competition, Stanadard Life wanted to provide customers with continuous availability from Web applications to data stored on the mainframe. See how Standard Life employed SYSB-II to achieve those goals and then discovered it could use SYSB-II to recover quickly from abends and improve performance of batch programs to reduce costs.
Standard Life provides continuous availability, shortens recovery time (PDF)
TIAA-CREF shortens nightly batch window, automates recovery, and more
TIAA-CREF is a Fortune 100 financial services company with more than $435 billion in combined assets under its management. When the organization recognized new opportunities to grow the business, it also had to find a way to offer concurrent access to data by both CICS and batch programs. Discover how TIAA-CREF incorporated SYSB-II to help manage transaction volume, shorten the nightly batch window, and automate recovery from abends to achieve business goals.
TIAA-CREF increases application availability, reduces recovery time and costs (PDF)
McJunkin uses SYSB-II to accelerate service for major contracts
McJunkin Red Man Corporation is a national distributor that delivers key parts and supplies to the largest energy and processing industry companies in America. It needed to process EDI orders from its largest customers faster than once per hour. See how McJunkin implemented SYSB-II to meet its 30-minute order-fulfillment obligations and keep CICS available to online users during batch processing, without making code changes or many process changes.
McJunkin meets SLAs by running batch more frequently (PDF)
University provides data on demand
Ball State University students wanted 24/7 availability to CICS applications, and they didn't understand why they couldn't have it. The reason: IT had to take CICS applications down for hours to run batch. Ball State University deployed SYSB-II, a VSAM file-sharing solution that allows batch files to run while CICS applications remain available. See how Ball State University kept its existing infrastructure and also provided 24/7 availability to CICS applications for its service-oriented architecture (SOA) initiatives.
How BSU provides data on demand and 24/7 availability to CICS applications (PDF)
Hanes Industries increases availability to CICS applications
Hanes Industries was using SHAREOPTION 4 to update its inventory application through batch. The problem arose when CICS would hold a resource that the batch process needed, and in turn, the batch process would hold a resource that CICS needed.
Hanes Industries increases CICS application availability
Office Depot reduces batch processing
Restrictions in Office Depot's distribution application permitted only one warehouse at a time to batch process orders. Furthermore, each process only allowed for about 800 orders to be batch processed in one step. With only one batch process allowed to run at a time and each taking 15 to 20 minutes, the last CSC in line was pressed for time to get the orders fulfilled.
How Office Depot minimizes batch windows
Maritime Life provides IBM mainframe access without closing files
Each day, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Maritime had to take down its Individual Insurance Administration System for batch processing, preventing employees from making changes to customer policies. Now it doesn't. See how SYSB-II, the VSAM file sharing solution from H&W, made IBM mainframe access available without closing files.
Maritime Life provides access the IBM mainframe without closing files
Yellow Technology Services, Inc. runs batch updates without restricting IBM mainframe access
Yellow's comprehensive maintenance control and management system worked beautifully—except that the required daily updates and batch processing meant extending daily application downtime for up to 45 minutes. See how SYSB-II allowed Yellow to run its daily reports and update files while the IBM mainframe remains up and running.
Yellow runs batch updates during the day without restricting IBM mainframe access
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