Storage Management

Epic®

Tape & Disk Manager

Platform: z/VSE and VSEⁿ

Epic® is a powerful automated tape- and disk-management system that dramatically improves the performance of z/VSE data centers. Epic® provides reliable data security and a user-friendly online catalog management facility.

Some Key Features:

• The only tape and disk management system written specifically for the VSE environment
• Exploits new operating environment releases as they become available, and provides state-of-the-art storage management features and functions, such as its online catalog management facility
• By automating resource allocation, Epic® improves tape and DASD utilization without additional overhead
• Helps you manage storage media effectively and take full advantage of VSE
• Allows rerouting of temporary datasets to virtual disk, which saves time and reduces I/O
• Offers a batch utility that lets you create a dataset, automatically catalog it and modify the catalog
• Controls the allocation of tape drives and DASD so they are not assigned to a job until actually needed, leaving drives free for other partitions and CPUs

The Online Epic® Catalog Management System offers a comprehensive help system at both the function and field levels and allows users to

• Display and manage the EPIC catalog
• Define Epic dataset definitions
• Maintain the Epic system configuration
• Maintain Epic online user profiles
• Display Epic catalog statistic

Manages, secures, and reports on all aspects of a system’s storage resources—auditing features include

• Dataset status and usage reports
• Basic job accounting
• Activity logging by programs and partition
• Tape exception reports

Optional security features include

• Dataset lock, unlock, and release
• Password security protection
• Data encryption
• Emergency recovery

Epic® provides seamless support for these automatic tape library products:

• BSI OPTI-TAPE
• BUSTECH MAS
• Fundamental Software FakeTape™
• IBM 3494
• LCDD
• Optica zVT™
• TLS
• VTS
• STK Silo
• Sutmyn (formerly Memorex) ATL

Conversion Info:

Epic® replaces:

• Dynam/D Disk Management for VSE
• Dynam/FI File Independence
• Dynam/T Tape Management for VSE
• CA-EPIC
• SYSTEM MANAGER

System Requirements

Epic® supports all VSE/ESA releases from 1.4 through VSE.