Res Suite and its products:

RES Suite is comprised of over 20 complimentary and synergistic products, based on a central repository that collects very detailed levels of “Knowledge” about the IT environment and makes it available for systems governance, operations, automation, quality control, engineering of applications software and data management.

The RES Suite products are multiplatform: they are able to provide solutions on virtually all systems including z/OS mainframe, Linux, UNIX and Windows

The expertise available through the RES organization is in perfect alignment with the RES Suite products which are geared towards the support of the IT Management Enterprise. This ensures the optimization of the processes and systems governance for all areas of business including:

  • Strategic Direction and IT Management
  • Change Management and Quality Assurance
  • Application Management
  • Facility Management
  • Data & Data Quality Management
RES Solutions

 

Strategic Direction and IT Management

‘Having a Repository of knowledge that provides detailed, comprehensive information about system components across the enterprise, supplies IT management with an essential instrument of support for strategic decisions. Decisions such as substituting or deleting an obsolete or inefficient component or moving an existing application to a lower cost platform or even the review for the on-going provision of AM contracts deemed too expensive in relation to their quality, can now be made with a greater awareness and certainty of the outcome. In this area RES Suite provides solutions that effectively support IT management in their decisions about the evolution of their systems.

Solutions for the areas of Process Engineering and System Governance:

        • Docet/MP (download brochure) (download flyer)
          A detailed and efficient database for the knowledge and documentation of the entire IT systems environment.DOCET MP provides documentation, cartography and impact analysis related to the IT assets, both for mainframe and open systems.
        • Wic/MP
          A sophisticated dashboard for the knowledge and control of information systems.
        • QA-Me (download brochure)
          A system for the measurement of applications software that enables the assessment of the quality and of the cost of the management of applications based on a set of various metrics.

 

Change Management and Quality

The introduction of automated tools for the management of the change in the lifecycle of applications has reduced the defects caused by errors generated when moving new releases of the software through the different environments. Nevertheless, errors still occur on objects not supported by current change management tools, such as Scripts, JCL and DDL. Added to this are the errors typically encountered from incomplete analysis of the quality of new or modified code.

Res Suite, with its included quality control capabilities, its identification of obsolete objects and its change lifecycle support, can be interfaced with the most popular automated change management tools to effectively provide answers on these and other issues.

Solutions for Process Engineering area:

        • J-MAN (download brochure)
          This tool provides automatic management of Job Control Language (JCL) and batch processing (validation, quality, generation of cloned copies, automatic changes, migrations from different environments, …..) insuring efficient performance, optimization of processing and reliability.
        • DDL Changer (download brochure)
          Manages the life cycle of DDL (Data Definition Language) and is able to automatically make changes to the source DDL objects as they move through the change life cycle.
        • ARPA (download brochure)
          A product for the identification and archival or deletion of obsolete information system components. Can significantly reduce the cost of application maintenance and/or facility management.

Solutions for the System Governance area:

        • HplQA (download brochure)
          A sophisticated tool for the automated quality control of applications software. HplQA helps reduce costs and optimize programs, resulting in a higher standard of performance.
        • PE/QA
          Standards enforcement, quality control and detection of errors in batch scripts, JCL and scheduling nets.
        • DB/IQ QA e DB/IQ QA+
          Produced by InSoft Software GmbH of Germany and distributed in Italy by RES, these tools make it possible to monitor the quality of static and dynamic SQL. They integrate with other RES tools and are able to identify inefficiencies, high CPU consumption and poor performance for access to data in DB2 applications.
        • RES-IAD (download brochure)
          Information in real time concerning end-point Software and Hardware, for improved control of license compliance and business service resulting in a reduction in costs.
        • QA-Me (download brochure)
          A system for the measurement of applications software that enables the assessment of quality and the cost of managing applications based on a variety of metrics.

 

Application Management

A series of tools that are oriented to the issues of productivity and quality of work for those staff involved in applications development which enables users to operate more efficiently through access to a knowledge repository which provides additional detail to information about applications that can result in reduced cost and effort in Application Management.

Available for the mainframe platform running z-os with DB2, along with all platforms in the IT environment, Docet/MP, Wic, Docet IAU, JADe and UpTown/MP provide a robust solution for this important area of Information Systems.

Solutions for the Process Engineering area

        • Docet IAU – Impact Analysis Utilities
          A powerful tool for identifying, within a group of system components, where to apply changes that could have multiple impacts on the software.
        • JADe/MP (download brochure)
          A tool for the automatic design and generation of batch scripts, JCL and batch schedules.
        • UpTown/MP (download brochure)
          Provides complete autonomy for users to execute and manage batch processes along with the related customization parameters.

Solutions for the System Governance area

        • Docet/MP (download brochure) (download flyer)
          A highly detailed and efficient data base for knowledge and documentation of the entire information system environment. Docet/MP is able to provide complete documentation, topography and impact analysis of the corporate IT assets for both the mainframe and distributed systems (LUW).
        • WIC/MP
          A sophisticated dashboard that provides access to knowledge of and control of the information system.

 

 

Facility Management

The efficiency of batch processes has always been very important to mainframe-based systems. It is equally important now to those batch processes being run on distributed platforms. The Res Suite tools, through their ability to automatically generate batch scripts and batch scheduling networks, have the ability to correctly respond to various automatic functions for rerun/restart features, anticipate possible delays in execution and identify critical paths in the processing environment. The Res Suite tools for this area ensure consistent quality results and excellent coverage of even the most widespread and complex environments.

Solutions for the Process Engineering area

    • J-MAN (download brochure)
      This tool provides automatic management of Job Control Language (JCL) and batch processing (validation, quality, generation of cloned copies, automatic changes, migrations from different environments, …..) insuring efficient performance, optimization of processing and reliability.
    • JADe/MP
      A tool for the automatic design and generation of batch scripts, JCL and batch schedules.
    • Re-Engineering (download brochure)
      Improves the performance and quality of batch processing networks by increasing parallelism and providing automation for the rerun/restart operations.

Solutions for System Governance area:

    • Docet/MP (download brochure) (download flyer)
      A highly detailed and efficient data base for knowledge and documentation of the entire information system environment. Docet/MP is able to provide complete documentation, topography and impact analysis of the corporate IT assets for both the mainframe and distributed systems (LUW).
    • WIC/MP
      A sophisticated dashboard that provides access to knowledge of and control of the information system.
    • Ws-Planning (download brochure)
      A tool that provides the ability to monitor and predict the performance of a batch production environment. It is essential for the advanced understanding of what will happen in the next production processing window and to help identify possible impacts on the service against any delays in processing.
    • CPF (Critical Path Finder) (download brochure)
      A solution that provides the ability to identify and reduce the critical paths in batch processes.

 

Data & Data Quality Management

Enterprise Data Manager is a family of innovative products from the Res Suite that combines ease of use and maximum efficiency. It is designed as an architecture that can operate on all platforms from z/OS with DB2 to systems based on Oracle, SQL/Server, DB2/UDB, SQL/Server or MySql. Enterprise Data Manager provides the user with a knowledge repository and advanced technology that makes it possible to provide improved response to the need of Data Management and Data Quality.

Solutions for the areas of Process Engineering and System Governance

    • EdMan (download brochure)
      A robust solution of Data Knowledge & Quality that provides the best knowledge of the corporate IT assets to control and restore the quality of data.
    • EdMan DLC (Data Life Cycle) (download brochure)
      Archival, Storage and Refreshing, providing an efficient solution that keeps in check the growth of corporate data bases and a reduction of the costs for managing the lifecycle of data.
    • DAISY (download brochure)
      Daisy is a product for Subsetting data, that ensures reduced implementation times and the absolute consistency of the functional references between different entities.
    • DAISY DM (download brochure)The process of Data Masking (DM) often accompanies that of Subsetting. Daisy DM is able to work either independently or jointly with Daisy as a single, efficient process with very little effort.