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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Note: This news release was first published by IBM. Click on the below link
to view the IBM announcement:
http://www.s390.ibm.com/s390da/applications/nbastco.html
A copy of the announcement appears below:
ASTCO Ltd. announces ASTUTE/UNIX Support Option in traditional OS/390 format
New Product Announcement
December 1998 -- Advanced Software Technologies Co., Ltd. (ASTCO Ltd.)
announces the availability of the ASTUTE/UNIX™ Support Option. Available as a
separate product or as an integrated component of ASTCO Ltd.'s flagship product, ASTUTE®,
the UNIX Support Option eases the implementation and maintenance of UNIX Support Services
by providing UNIX file and HFS management facilities in a format with which the
traditional OS/390® user is familiar.
Running as a batch job, started task, or from a TSO or ISPF session, the ASTUTE/UNIX
Support Option provides two areas of functionality and benefit:
 | UNIX File Management - ASTUTE/UNIX may be directed to scan all or part of the file
system hierarchy, select files or directories based on any criterion or combination of
criteria, and produce reports detailing any desired information about the selected items.
These customizable reports may be sorted by any item (or items), in ascending or
descending order. Subtotalling facilities may be applied to summarize information,
and preprocessing and string-generation facilities may be employed to easily generate data
or commands to process files or directories, enabling, for example, a UNIX file-usage
chargeback system to be easily set up.
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| HFS Management - ASTUTE/UNIX may be directed to interrogate all mounted HFS data sets,
select HFSs based on any criterion or combination of criteria (including allocation, UNIX
file utilization, OS/390 attributes such as tracks allocated, etc.) and produce reports
detailing any desired information about the selected HFS data sets. Subtotalling may
be used to produce aggregate usage reports, and preprocessing and string-generation may be
employed to specify actions to be taken, for example, when an HFS percentage-used value
passes a predetermined or calculated threshhold. This entire process may be
automated using ASTUTE/TRACKER's scheduler, history file, and trend-graphing support, to
track HFS usage over time, avoiding any problems that might arise when HFS data sets get
too full (ASTUTE/TRACKER is a component of the ASTUTE system). |
Implementers of UNIX Support Services will benefit greatly from ASTUTE/UNIX, through
the ability to easily gather and process information about UNIX files and directories, and
through the ability to easily gather and process information about HFS data set
utilization.
With ASTUTE/UNIX, those used to OS/390 data set processing and reporting methods can
easily and quickly adapt to UNIX Support Services files and directories.
For further information about ASTCO Ltd., please E-mail them at info@astcoltd.com, or telephone them at: 301-469-5429.
About Advanced Software Technologies Co., Ltd.
Established in 1983, ASTCO Ltd. specializes in DASD, data set, and catalog management and
recovery solutions for the OS/390 environment. ASTCO Ltd. has been an IBM S/390
Partner in Development since that organization's founding in 1995, and is an IBM Business
Partner.
Application: UNIX file and HFS management facilities
Software: ASTUTE/UNIX Support Option
Hardware: S/390® Enterprise Server
S/390 Partners in Development: http://www.ibm.com/s390/s390da
For More Information Contact:
Advanced Software Technologies Company, Ltd.
P.O. Box 10826, Rockville, MD 20850
Tel: 301-469-5429
FAX: 301-765-0106
Internet: info@astcoltd.com
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