Director is a powerful solution for i5/OS environments that can provide unprecedented systems management, optimize high availability installations, free up unnecessarily used DASD and improve the performance of your System.

Director delivers immediate and significant benefits:

Disk Space Recovery
Free up valuable storage thus extending time before additional DASD is needed

System Efficiency
Reduces overhead of CPU and other components by optimizing objects and even optimizing accessing of database records

HA Optimization
Improve efficiency and performance of HA systems

Visibility and Management
Improves overall visibility of objects and usage; alleviates Systems Management by automation, simplification and ease of access to object and user information

Far more than simply a monitoring product, Director provides a wealth of System Management and Optimization functionality while leveraging autonomic computing fundamentals to reduce the need for human intervention and improve overall efficiencies.

Optimize and Manage Files and Objects – Use iTera Director to

• Map every iSeries object
• Reorganize all physical data
• Optimize logical file usage
• Compress/Clear/Resize objects
• Maintain complete object cross-reference
• Track and analyze object growth
• Thereby allowing you to improve performance, free DASD and achieve immediate ROI
• All while users are still online

Simplify Management of System Resources and Objects
Automatically manage Message queues, Out queues and job queues. Manage spool files, including advanced functions for save/restore and archiving. Manage all objects at all levels , from hierarchical library group domains at a high level through to the granular management of specific objects at the
lowest level.

Simplify Activity Management

• Analyze resource usage and non-usage
• Analyze response times
• Track, monitor and report on jobs and users
• Monitor, track and manage system inefficiencies to better leverage IT assets
• Take control of your systems to proactively adjust resources to meet business needs
• All while users are stil online

Simplify Database Management and Performance
Reorganize-in-place to reclaim unused DASD. In addition, improve application performance by reducing the excessive disk I/O and memory utilization caused by the physical presence of logically deleted records.

• All while users are still online