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Syncsort MFX 2.1 + ZPSaver Suite
John Reda
Sr. Director, Mainframe Support & Services
November, 2014

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Agenda
Challenges of Today’s Mainframes
NEW - Syncsort MFX 2.1
NEW – ZPSaver Suite & ZPCompress
Getting More Value from Your zIIP Engines
Estimating ROI & Savings
Q&A
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Addressing Today’s Mainframe Challenges
How to securely access & legacy data & applications?
distribute mainframe data?
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How to reduce software costs?
How to defer hardware upgrades?
How to reduce processing times to
meet SLAs?
How to save mainframe
processing?
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How to optimize
them?
How to leverage zIIP engines?
How to manage resources?
How do I keep up with
How to identify potential
processing savings?

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The Need for Faster, More Efficient Mainframe Solutions
Offloading Mainframe Processing to zIIP
Mandates to Contain Mainframe Costs
Offloading to zIIP engines can reduce costs
quickly and with very little effort
Focus on most expensive operations for a
bigger impact: Sort, Copy, Compression
Savings alone are not enough
Increase raw performance
Leverage latest advancements to drive
greater efficiencies & reduce elapsed
times
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Do You Know Syncsort?
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• Syncsort provides fast, secure,
enterprise-grade software spanning “Big
Iron to Big Data”
• 50% of all mainframes run Syncsort
software
• Fastest sort technology in the market
• Most trusted 3rd party mainframe software
• Over 40 years of innovation:
• 25+ issued & pending patents
• Large global customer base
• 12,000+ deployments in 80 countries and
serving 87 of the Fortune 100
• 1,500 mainframe customers
• First-to-market, fully integrated approach
to Hadoop ETL
Our customers are achieving the
impossible, every day!
Key Partners

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Syncsort MFX Product Line – Fastest Performance. Lowest Footprint
MFX for z/OS High-performance sort for System z
Reduce costs by offloading Copy & SMS
ZPCopy
ZPCompress
ZPSaver Suite Compression work to zIIP processors
MFX PipeSort Perform up to 8 simultaneous sorts
High performance, transparent replacement for SAS’s
PROC SORT
MFX PROC
SORT
Unmatched support/services to meet an
organization’s most critical technical and business
needs
Platinum
Services
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NEW
Release 2.1

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Syncsort MFX – The Fastest, Most Efficient Sort. Period!
Syncsort MFX Customers Achieve Significantly Faster Sort
Performance and System Throughput at Lower Costs
Syncsort MFX for z/OS:
Performance Comparison
 Reduces Total CPU Time by 30 - 40%
 Reduces Elapsed Time by 20 - 40%
 Optimizes resource use
 Exploits advanced system
functions
 Utilizes dynamic parallel
processing to reduce elapsed
time
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Syncsort Products Provide Tight Mainframe Integration
 MFX
PROCSort ISV Products
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Typical Mainframe Infrastructure
I/O Devices Communications
Mainframe Hardware
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User-written Programs
 MFX for z/OS
 ZPSaver Suite
 Ironstream
 PipeSort
Utilities
Operating
System
 DL/2
DB, OLTP &
Middleware

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Syncsort MFX 2.1 – Better Performance, Better Savings
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Higher Productivity
• More data manipulation functions such as field type
comparisons and parsed field identification
• 64-bit addressing for exits – E15, E32, E35 – and
invoking programs
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Faster Performance
• zHPF integration reduces elapsed time by up to 15%
• Enhanced OPTMODES Automatically tune performance
based what is important to YOU (ET vs CPU)
• Optimization for zEC12, zBC12 and z196 models

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Syncsort MFX 2.1 – Better Performance, Better Savings
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Easier Installation & Deployment
• Specify installation options in SYS1.PARMLIB
• Greater flexibility. Support for multiple sets of options if
required by LPARs
Support for NEW ZPSaver Suite!
• Move COPY & Compression workloads
to zIIP engines

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New ZPSaver Suite
Shift Critical Copy & Compression Workloads to zIIP Processors
Syncsort MFX 2.1 Provides Foundation for ZPSaver Suite
ZPSaver Suite
ZPCopy
Offload Copy
processing
to zIIP processors
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SMS ZPCompress
Offload SMS
compression work
to zIIP processors
Syncsort MFX 2.1
High performance sort, merge, and copy. Offload to zIIP engines. Save
significant CPU time while reducing total elapsed time.

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ZPCopy: A New Architecture for MFX COPY
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Introduced on Sept, 2013
 Shift COPY processing to zIIP Engines
 Reduce Copy-related TCB CPU time by
up to 99%
 Achieve up to 25% faster elapsed times
PLUS…
 Completely Transparent to users and
existing COPY applications

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ZPCompress – Offloading SMS Compression to zIIP
Compressing mainframe data is critical to
contain costsBUT…
Compression can be VERY expensive too!
CPU costs vs. Storage costs
ZPCompress Can Help!
 High-performance SMS compression
running on zIIP processors
 Reduce up to 90% of TCB CPU time for
SORTs and COPYs of compressed data
 No control card / JCL changes required
 Meet or exceed performance SLAs
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100%
80%
60%
40%
20%
0%
Offload to zIIP
TCB CPU ET
Comp on CP Comp with ZPCompress
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Get More Value from zIIP Engines with The ZPSaver Suite
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Sub-capacity
Pricing
Hardware
upgrades
MSU-capped
LPAR
Hosting /
Outsourcing
Chargeback
Reduces billable CPU and contains
overall software costs
Delays hardware upgrades as data
volumes increase
Supports more work and frees up
capacity
Results in lower fees and bills
Batch
Window
Meeting SLAs & batch window
reduces risk and associated costs
to the business

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