August 5, 2024
To: WatchTower Customers
From: The Broadcom WatchTower Team
Subject: General Availability Announcement for WatchTower Application Profiler
On behalf of Broadcom, we appreciate your business and the opportunity to provide you with high-quality, innovative software and services. As part of our ongoing commitment to customer success, we are pleased to announce the General Availability (GA) of the following WatchTower Platform™ Application Profiler (AP4z).
WatchTower Application Profiler discovers applications running on the mainframe and provides visualization of the application flow and key associated metrics. The WatchTower Application Profiler accelerates problem diagnosis, identifies opportunities to improve performance and optimize resources, as well as de-risk modernization efforts.
How WatchTower Application Profiler Assists with Mainframe Operations:
● Application Optimization - Designed to monitor the execution of large business workloads, WatchTower Application Profiler's capability discovers the application flow, collects data, and reveals insights about application behavior allowing for business services to obtain desired results. With the benefit of wide monitoring, it highlights the most used and resource intensive programs and allows you to estimate potential savings from upgrading old compiler versions. Furthermore it provides a baseline for the ROI comparison to drive business decisions.
● Impact Analysis - The information collected by WatchTower Application Profiler enhances the efficiency of support and change control teams. This information also benefits application development, performance analysis, capacity planning, security, and operations teams. By highlighting significant inefficiencies, it enables targeted optimization efforts that would be too costly or risky on a large scale. This prioritization reduces costs and risks, increases the likelihood of success, and accelerates the return on investment for optimization and modernization projects.
● Modernization - WatchTower Application Profiler visualizes and identifies actual relationships between programs, modules and applications. Additionally, the WatchTower Application Profiler aids in assessing the status of an application portfolio, allowing you to estimate potential savings from projects like compiler migrations, and more precisely track progress during project execution. It identifies unused programs and highlights the most-used and resource-intensive ones. Due to increased visibility, dependency mapping and baseline it reduces risks inherent in modernization efforts.
● Troubleshooting - When issues arise, the WatchTower Application Profiler helps quickly identify the dependencies of the problematic programs, visualizing the entire program call tree and ensuring the right teams are contacted immediately. Aiding in finding the root cause, it allows teams to assess module level CPU trends, unexpected program runs, version changes and which programs changed their behavior. This ability to focus on business impact directs resolution efforts more effectively.
The WatchTower Application Profiler provides mainframe operations and optimizations experts with otherwise unavailable insights. These insights are crucial for understanding how application assets are utilized and for defining the scope of optimization and modernization projects. Lightweight design ensures minimal overhead, allowing continuous monitoring of the entire application portfolio. This helps build a long-term history of program usage, performance behavior, and inter-relationships.
We have included a Product Brief that details the features and highlights of WatchTower Application Profiler.
You can download your copy of WatchTower Application Profiler under WatchTower, where you can also utilize the case management system. To install your product, follow the installation procedures in the WatchTower Platform documentation.
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