Increased Performance, Reduced Load Time

While bolstering your tableBASE applications to be even faster, the real value comes from near-zero table load times at application startup or IPL, increased table maintenance utility, and significantly reduced risks involved with table data updates. Loading dozens or hundreds of tables from DASD takes time, especially if they are large. Where an IPL can mean many minutes, or even hours of initialization time, tableBASE Process Manager allows for instantly available tables, fully indexed and ready to use. If your outage costs are $250.00 per second, and it takes one minute to load your table data each day, tableBASE Process Manager can save your business $15,000.00 per business day.

Improved Table Change-control Workflow

While tableBASE provides dramatic improvements to mainframe application throughput performance, maintainability can be daunting in large, complex systems. Standard tableBASE table refreshing is powerful, but can occur in the middle of a transaction (many organizations will only allow refreshes during downtime for this reason). Also, standard table refreshing is sequential—if you have 300 related tables, they are refreshed sequentially, which can be time-consuming. Many organizations use a separate LPAR for testing of table changes, which adds an extra expense to the process, along with another layer of complexity. tableBASE Process Manager introduces a suite of new features that will make this process much easier to manage through automation, and a new structure that obviates the need for extra LPARS dedicated to testing tables. tableBASE Process Manager also allows for significant improvements to your data change control workflow. Your production and update environments can be on the same LPAR, and can use exactly the same naming conventions. Table updates can be performed in the background while transactions are being processed. Updated tables can then be switched in real time, into the production environment without the need for restarting, and without interrupting current transactions. Users will not be affected by data updates.

Multi-LPAR Operation

It is possible to use tableBASE data on multiple LPARs within a Sysplex, but it is a precarious management task. With Read-Write tables, it can be a challenge to maintain data consistency across LPARs. There are methods to ensure data consistency, but you're likely introducing significant overhead, and defeating the tableBASE inherent performance advantage. With tableBASE Process Manager, you can organize your Read-Only data on a single LPAR, multiple LPARs, or all of your LPARs in a Sysplex. In this way, you can ensure that data used on different LPARs is guaranteed to be consistent. tableBASE Process Manager provides an immediate ROI, and continues to add value indefinitely in increased utility, maintainability and flexibility.