SENTINELn

See Every Change. Control Every Outcome.

Let the watchguard protect your z/OS data sets. Real time monitoring, automated backup recovery, proactive reporting and member-level access is all one tool away with SENTINELn.

Investing In The Future

Data Set Protection Retooled and Reimagined

SENTINELn is a robust change management solution designed to monitor, track, and restore z/OS data sets with absolute precision. With built-in recovery, a dynamic user interface and audit readiness, your teams can confidently program without compromising critical z/OS data sets.

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Why SENTINELn Is Different

See Every Change. Every Time.

Total control and awareness of your z/OS system.

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    Automated Backup Control

    Automatically captures member-level backups, maintaining a history of versioned resources to improve data protection and control. 

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    Real Time Monitoring and Recovery

    Tracks real-time changes to critical system and application software. Seamlessly roll back changes and restore data backups. 

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    Manage Member-Level Access

    Controls library modifications by limiting access to designated members, ensuring only approved users are permitted to make changes. 

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    Documentation of Changes

    Enables users to record the purpose of updates made to critical members of protected resources, creating a clear audit trail that supports accountability and thorough change documentation. 

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    Auditing and Integrity Verification

    Generates detailed reports, ensuring the integrity of your production data sets and load libraries.

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    Automation Pipeline Integration

    Command-line interface enables seamless integration with automation pipelines. Teams can automate processes faster, improve reliability, and scale operations with confidence.

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Turning Data Set Modification Into Tracked Solutions

  • The Challenge

    Tracking System Errors

    If something goes wrong in system configuration, time is of the essence to restore system integrity.

    The Solution

    SENTINELn's real-time monitoring creates backups at the moment change are made. If issues arise later, you can easily backtrack through a member's history, restore to a known stable point, and immediately get the systems back up and running. Then, SENTINELn's audit capabilities pinpoint the exact change that caused the outage.

  • The Challenge

    Awareness of System Updates

    For organizations comprised of globally dispersed teams of systems programmers, it can be hard to tell what changes are occurring and when data sets are modified.

    The Solution

    Beyond recording all updates at the time they are made, SENTINELn captures snapshots of the state of critical data sets at a given point in time. These snapshots can be compared to show what members were changed between two points in time. For example, this can be used to watch for changes in SYS1.* datasets week to week.

  • The Challenge

    Controlling Data Set Access

    Specific data sets must be locked down; however, an edit needs to be made. Opening the whole data set is too permissive.

    The Solution

    SENTINELn allows a designated user or group to temporarily check out and modify a single member at a time while the rest of the data set remains locked. Checkouts support comments, allowing users to document the reason a specific member was checked out.

     

  • The Challenge

    Complex System Configuration Onboarding

    For new systems programmer trainees, understanding the full scope and details of a system’s configuration is a substantial undertaking, made more difficult by insufficient documentation.

    The Solution

    SENTINELn allows comments at the time of update and records them in the member’s version history, enabling each change to be examined in isolation with clear context for why it was made.

    See How SENTINELn Will Safeguard Your Organization

    Learn how SENTINELn protects your data sets with real-time change tracking, automatic backups, and side-by-side comparison all in one intuitive platform.

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