Organisations are struggling to achieve this end while simultaneously meet business‘ pressures to reduce costs without introducing increased risks.

The goVnr™ is a solution designed from the ground up specifically to eliminate human error and the effort involved in Mainframe LPAR management including IPLs and shutdowns. The goVnr™ enforces controlled and repeatable IPL and shutdown procedures, governed by an approval suite of profiles and processes.

Mainframe outages generally have the greatest impact to business and can effect a businesses´ reputation, and also represent lost business opportunity or even financial misstatement. IT Managers are therefore constantly pressured to meet business demands for high availability and audit ability of critical systems and applications. The goVnr™ delivers compliance through controlled processes including change and configuration management.

Key considerations when evaluating your need for the goVnr™ include the requirement to:

• Improve the risk profile of IT and Data Centre Operations
• Maintain and improve high service levels and availability
• Reduce unnecessary outages caused by human error
• Reduce the time taken to perform IPLs and Shutdowns
• Minimise the cost of managing IT environments
• Improve compliance levels
• Improve the level of audit and access capabilities
• Protect against the loss of mainframe intellectual property and site knowledge
• Improve the predictability and reliability of disaster recover procedures
• Reduce the reliance on and support of “Home Grown” development efforts
• Improve adherence to best practices (e.g. ITIL)
• Implement granular role based authentication and access control security
• Unify and simplify operations activities
• Improve visibility of mainframe activities
• Improve staff productivity by releasing technical staff to conduct more strategic duties
• Maximise mean time between failures
• Significantly reduce mean time to repair incidents

In addition to the supply of the goVnr™ product for Mainframe Governance, ISI can also provide Best Practise consulting for any Automation requirement.