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OPTIMAn

The Reliability You Know. The Experience You've Been Waiting For.

Overview

OPTIMAn: Performance, Cost and Capacity Analytics on IBM Z

OPTIMA  is a 21CS product that runs entirely on IBM Z. It collects SMF data from your z/OS systems as it is written, turns it into performance, cost and capacity measurements, and forecasts what your workload will need next. Ask it a question in plain English, run a what-if against your own history, and push the results to whichever reporting tool your organisation already uses.

  • Hub-and-spoke or stand-alone, all as z/OS started tasks: nothing to stand up off platform, SMF collection zIIP-eligible
  • Forecasting, what-if analysis and workload simulation to validate capacity decisions before spending
  • Built for capacity planners, performance analysts and systems programmers, with TFP and 4HRA chargeback for the people who own the bill
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Specifications

OPTIMAⁿ

Model level

Historical data and customisations carry across from your existing platform.

z/OS Levels

Platform

z/OS 3.1 or later on every system in scope: hub, spoke and stand-alone. Runs on any IBM Z hardware that supports the required software.

Architecture

Stand-alone or multi-system hub-and-spoke. Hub, spoke, SMF Extractor, DataMover and Continuous Collector all run as z/OS started tasks. No distributed or off-platform server component unless Prismⁿ or Prism AI is added.

Subsystem and Hardware Dependencies

DB2

Db2 V13 or later on the hub or stand-alone system. A dedicated Db2 subsystem is strongly recommended.

Java

IBM 64-bit Java 21 on hub and spoke systems for automated data gathering.

Log streams

One DASD-only or coupling-facility log stream per SMF Extractor and per Continuous Collector. Any log stream shared across a sysplex must be coupling-facility based.

Required Authorizations

Security

Db2 SYSADM for initial install only; DBADM for ongoing administration. Privileges granted through RACF groups (LRL, LRLSYS, LRLUSER by default) or directly to user IDs.

Installation roles

z/OS systems programmer, Db2 administrator (SYSADM), RACF administrator, OPTIMAⁿ administrator (DBADM).

User Interface

What they need for UI

Linux, Windows, or z/OS USS for the Prismⁿ web application on Apache Tomcat 11 or a compatible server, running Java 21.

Prism AI

Optional offline container bundle with AI agent plus Postgres 17 with pgvector. Supports x86-64 Linux or IBM s390x only and requires a reachable LLM endpoint.

Languages

Languages

English with fully translated Japanese panels.

Downloads

Migrating to OPTIMAn

Move to OPTIMAn without starting over. Your historical data and customizations come with you.

BUSINESS VALUE

What changes when the whole team can see the mainframe

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    Stop issues before they cause downtime

    Root-cause analysis finds problems at the warning stage, before they become outages or SLA breaches.

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    Plan ahead and defer hardware spend

    Historical trends show where the environment is heading, so you right-size capacity and justify upgrades with evidence.

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    Lower and predict mainframe cost

    Consumption visibility exposes the drivers behind licensing spend, so MLC becomes a cost you can manage and forecast.

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    Eliminate blind spots

    One view across every LPAR, sysplex and subsystem. One trusted source of truth for the whole Z environment.

     
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    Free your specialists for higher-value work

    Any team member pulls their own reports, so scarce experts focus on optimisation instead of requests.

     
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    See it against your own SMF data

    A 30-minute demo, or a product preview on a sample of your workload.

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