Infotel Announces Artificial Intelligence Software Release in U.S. to Automate Db2 Maintenance Tasks

TAMPA, Fla., April 4, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Infotel, a leading global software vendor of data performance and optimization solutions for z/OS, today announced its newly upgraded iDBA-Online product is now generally available in the United States. iDBA-Online uses Artificial Intelligence to help automatically manage the most efficient maintenance schedule for IBM Db2. This new release brings more automation to Db2 maintenance, freeing up DBA resources for increased production. Additionally, through optimization of Db2 maintenance schedules, customers are seeing reductions of 5-10 percent CPU utilization from improved administration of these tasks.

"The sheer amount of data and the maintenance needed for optimization make Db2 a volatile and ever-changing environment," said Carlos Almeida business analyst at Tampa, Florida-based Infotel Corp. "A maintenance strategy that was set at the beginning of the month may not be viable after just a few days. This solution was designed to leverage AI and task automation to alleviate the chaos of maintenance for DBAs."

Db2 maintenance is essential for performance, recoverability, and optimized system resources. But every maintenance operation has a cost in terms of CPU and I/O and often these essential duties take too much of a DBA's time, eating away at his/her bandwidth to be performing more productive and innovative tasks.

Infotel's latest U.S. product offering addresses this critical budgetary dilemma for companies on IBM z/OS with Db2 and takes the guesswork out of maintenance duties by using Artificial Intelligence to automatically schedule maintenance in the most efficient way possible. iDBA runs in the background and consumes minimal resources while constantly receiving Db2 log data to analyze the most cost-effective way to schedule backups, reorgs and other Db2 maintenance tasks. The solution uses proprietary algorithms to combine SLAs, cost benefit analysis data, and business constraints set forth by clients to establish in real time, the optimum maintenance schedule. Maintenance schedules are dynamically updated and automatically executed to ensure compliance with SLAs and certify that every single operation has a positive ROI for the overall Db2 cost category.

Being able to dynamically evaluate the impact of Db2 maintenance with the ability to change schedules is essential for streamlining maintenance operations that maximize Db2 application performance and reduce z/OS operational costs. Intelligent automation allows the system to take over Db2 maintenance scheduling so DBAs can spend less time on manual analysis and scheduling allowing them to focus on more strategic, innovative ways to solve more pressing data problems.

Automation is a key component of all products from Infotel which was founded in 1979 and was first to market with a web-to-database product that played a key role in the development of e-commerce as it is known today. Infotel has also built a wealth of automation into its other mainframe optimization product DB/IQ, which automates SQL code quality assurance, and was also recently launched in the U.S.

To read more about iDBA-online and other automated mainframe software products visit infotel.com/us/mainframe-software or contact us directly at [email protected].

About Infotel

Infotel Corp., based in Tampa, Florida, is a software vendor and IT consulting firm specializing in data performance and optimization solutions for the Mainframe z/OS platform. For more than 40 years, Infotel has delivered proven solutions to help clients improve their data management systems. For more information on Infotel Corp., please visit https://www.infotel.com/us/.

SOURCE Infotel Corp