What's New

Please join us at CA-World and learn about our newest product offering in the presentation, MVS Solutions’ ThruPut Manager AE and CA 7 – A New Collaboration . Don't miss seeing our products in action with a quick Product Demo ==> ThruPut Manager AE with PCS.

Please join us at the IBM System z Technical University, and attend our presentation Reducing Your 4-hour Rolling Average - Safely and Legitimately.

Check out the details for the upcoming autumn tradeshows. We look forward to seeing you there.

See the new press release and technical highlights handout for information on the automated capacity management features of ThruPut Manager AE.

An entry has been added to reflect the support for sub-capacity pricing.

We are looking forward to attending SHARE in Boston this August. We'd be delighted to meet any existing customers and other interested parties who are also attending.

MVS Solutions has added a press release announcing the availability of ThruPut Manager AE with PCS.

The CA World 2010 entry now includes the presentation by Martin Wills, Using CA 7 Knowledge to Optimize z/OS Processing of Critical Paths.

CA May Mainframe Madness has been added to our tradeshows - our first virtual entry.

The Product Overview pages have been updated to reflect the content in the recently distributed Product Overview booklets.

Two new Product Overview booklets are available to give a comprehensive introduction of ThruPut Manager AE and ThruPut Manager AE with PCS.

IBM has published a new Redbook devoted to batch and Troy Coleman has written a thoughtful review of it - both links are provided.

See the IBM SYSTEMS MAGAZINE e-newsletter for an article on Martin Wills' experience with the IBM mainframe.

ThruPut Manager and Datacenter Savings has been added to our collection of white papers.

See the June News Bulletin for an Automation Edition update and other timely items, including a very eventful trade show.

ThruPut Manager and Production Batch explains the benefits of Automation Edition with TM/SLM from a production batch point of view.

See the white paper, ThruPut Manager and Dynamic Initiators, for details on how ThruPut Manager Automation Edition manages initiators.

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.

MVS Solutions announces the GA status of ThruPut Manager Automation Edition.

News Bulletin Volume 1 / Issue 2 highlights the recent Early Availability Program meeting with the participants and ThruPut Manager developers in Toronto.

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.

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.

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.

ThruPut Manager Version 6 Release 1.2 is now available, providing support for z/OS 1.8.

ThruPut Manager and Job Schedulers has been reformatted with clearer diagrams and tables.

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 production workload, regardless of the job scheduler deployed.

Have you outgrown Scheduling Environments? ThruPut Manager and Batch Routing details how ThruPut Manager can help you overcome the shortfalls in Scheduling Environments.

ThruPut Manager Version 6 Release 1.1 is now available, introducing Virtual Volume Staging and providing support for z/OS 1.7

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.

ThruPut Manager 6 is now generally available, with several enhancements that may be applicable to your datacenter.

The Product Overview page has been replaced to provide further information about ThruPut Manager 6 features and components.

Our Early Availability program for ThruPut Manager 6 (base product and current components) and the new TM/Drive Booking Services component is now underway.

Read about how TSYS uses ThruPut Manager to solve 14 major issues they identified.

On February 5, 2004, MVS Solutions Inc. announced ThruPut Manager 6 in a special customer webcast event.

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.

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.

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.

Innovative use of ThruPut Manager is described in Defer Your Next CPU Upgrade with ThruPut Manager.