What's New

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May, 2008
News & Events
The ThruPut Manager Orientation is now offered over two 1-hour sessions: Automation Edition: Operational View and Automation Edition: Conceptual View. Consider joining one or both of these.
April, 2008
News & Events
The IBM System z Technical Conference, in Dresden, Germany, is added to our list of tradeshows.
April, 2008
News & Events
MVS Solutions is offering four new Web-based Training Sessions starting April 22.
March, 2008
News & Events
MVS Solutions is offering a ThruPut Manager web-based orientation once a month, starting April 1. 
February, 2008
News & Events
Nine ThruPut Manager User Groups have been planned throughout 2008.
February, 2008
Articles and Paper
See the white paper, ThruPut Manager and Dynamic Initiators, for details on how ThruPut Manager Automation Edition manages initiators.
January, 2008
News & Events
SHARE and AFCOM presentations have been added to our events for this year.
December, 2007
Articles and Paper
The z/OS Batch Management Series, written by Jose Danobeitia, provides insight and background into the creation of the ThruPut Manager product. This will be of interest to readers who would like a deeper understanding of the product.
November, 2007
News & Events
MVS Solutions announces the GA status of ThruPut Manager Automation Edition.
November, 2007
News & Events
MVS Solutions will be attending CA WATS, for the first time, as well as SHARE where we will be participating in a presentation highlighting users' experience with TM/SLM.
November, 2007
News & Events
News Bulletin Volume 1/ Issue 2 highlights the recent Early Availability Program meeting with the participants and ThruPut Manager developers in Toronto.
October, 2007
News & Events
Parts 1 and 2 of The Future of z/OS Batch Service Management Seminar is being presented in four cities in November and December.
September, 2007
News & Events
The first edition of the MVS Solutions News Bulletin contains recent ThruPut Manager news, in particular, a report on the Early Availability Program for TM/SLM.
June, 2007
News & Events
MVS Solutions will be exhibiting at SHARE, z Expo, AFCOM, and Gartner this summer and fall.
May, 2007
News & Events
Both Part 1 and Part 2 of The Future of z/OS Batch Service Management web seminar series will be repeated in June. Register now.
March, 2007
News & Events
MVS Solutions introduces The Future of z/OS Batch Service Management web seminar series, which focuses on batch service from the point of view of the manager who needs to negotiate service levels and followup with their internal clients.
February, 2007
News & Events
The JAL & Beyond course details, and new tradeshow presentations have been added.
February, 2007
Articles and Papers
In Strategic Software Solutions for Batch, Jose Danobeitia, MVS Solutions' president, presents his thinking on what makes a product "strategic" from the point of view of the four main stakeholders, and discusses how ThruPut Manager meets this criteria.
December, 2006
News & Events
See the list of Winter events MVS Solutions will be participating in.
September, 2006
Product Updates
ThruPut Manager Automation Edition is now shipping with the Early Availability of TM/Service Level Manager. New and revised literature/documentation is also available, including a Graphs and Charts Sampler.
September, 2006
Product Updates
ThruPut Manager Version 6 Release 1.2 is now available, providing support for z/OS 1.8.
September, 2006
News & Events
Gartner Symposium ITxpo has been added to the Fall Tradeshow Schedule as well as MVS Solutions' presentation information at IBM Expo.
June, 2006
News & Events
CMG has been added to the Fall Tradeshow Schedule.
June, 2006
Articles & Papers
ThruPut Manager and Job Schedulers has been reformatted with clearer diagrams and tables.
May, 2006
News & Events
Please see the Fall Schedule for the tradeshows MVS Solutions will be attending.
May, 2006
Articles & Papers
After the recent Computer Associates and Cybermation announcement, MVS Solutions issues a press release to affirm their direction with TM/Production Control Services. This product automates batch service management for prodcution workload, regardless of the job scheduler deployed.
January, 2006
News & Events
Plan to join us at one of the many Regional User Groups offered this Spring.
January, 2006
News & Events
The Spring 2006 Web Training Sessions include some of the popular sessions from the past and the new topic Using System-Level Limiting.

As well, the in-depth JAL and BEYOND course is offered in April.

January, 2006
News & Events
Join MVS Solutions at AFCOM or SHARE this spring where presentations will be delivered at each.
January, 2006
Articles & Papers
Have you outgrown Scheduling Environments? ThruPut Manager and Batch Routing details how ThruPut Manager can help you overcome the shortfalls in Scheduling Environments.
September, 2005
Product Updates
ThruPut Manager Version 6 Release 1.1 is now available, introducing Virtual Volume Staging and providing support for z/OS 1.7
April, 2005
News & Events
Our Services
We are pleased to announce a new education service, the ThruPut Manager Web Training Sessions. These sessions will deal with individual topics of interest to our customers. They are each one hour long and there is no cost to join. Check out 'Our Services' for more information on these sessions and other available training or 'News & Events' for a current schedule.
November, 2004
Product Updates
ThruPut Manager 6 is now generally available, with several enhancements that may be applicable to your datacenter.
August, 2004
Product Overview
The Product Overview page has been replaced to provide further information about ThruPut Manager 6 features and components.
June, 2004
Product Updates
Our Early Availability program for ThruPut Manager 6 (base product and current components) and the new TM/Drive Booking Services component is now underway.
May, 2004
Success Stories
Read about how TSYS uses ThruPut Manager to solve 14 major issues they identified.
February, 2004
"Product Update"
On February 5, 2004, MVS Solutions Inc. announced ThruPut Manager 6 in a special customer webcast event.
September, 2003
Articles and Papers
How We Successfully Converted to WLM-Controlled Initiators details one shop's conversion from an unruly JES2 job initiator structure and related batch management issues. Available by special request.
August, 2003
Articles and Papers
ThruPut Manager and Job Schedulers explains how ThruPut Manager and job schedulers fit together. It discusses their roles within the job execution process, and includes a detailed comparison to clarify the relative strengths.
April, 2003
Success Stories
Energy Company Generates Bright Idea tells how Southern Company, the electric and gas utility, saved $115,000 using the ideas of one of their systems analysts and the power of ThruPut Manager.
January, 2003
Articles and Papers
Innovative use of ThruPut Manager is described in Defer Your Next CPU Upgrade with ThruPut Manager.