ASG Announces General Availability of ASG-TMON® Change Manager for CICS® TS Version 4.0

Leading-edge technology for automated management and maintenance of IBM CICS® Transaction Server (TS)

Naples (Florida) on 2 March 2007

ASG, an enterprise software provider to Global 5000 companies has announced today the general availability of ASG-TMON® Change Manager for CICS® TS and System Definition Auditor feature version 4.0.

This version includes tools that enable users to easily make modifications to tables across all CICS® TS and z/OS environments, securely managing and automating CICS table changes. This helps to reduce errors and improve productivity, significantly enhancing timely delivery to market.

The product provides secure, single sourced, centralised management of CICS® Transaction Server (TS) resource definitions for local and remote sites. It also creates a clear audit trail, improves quality with build-in edit checks, and reduces time spent by system programmers, cleaning up old CICS® TS system definitions with automatic Intelligence.

According to Ron Mullins, Vice President at The Northern Trust Company, “As The Northern Trust Company became a global company; we had development going on in India, London and Hong Kong. When Northern Trust became a 24/7 development, we initially planned to add more staff. But because we had ASG-TMON® Change Manager we were able to support our global development by substantially increasing our productivity without adding additional staff.”

ASG-TMON® Change Manager for CICS® TS offers customers a powerful tool for decreasing the time and costs associated with managing large CICS® TS environments while also automating change management of repetitive table management tasks.

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Founded in 1986, ASG is a privately held global enterprise software firm that provides a full range of software solutions in the Metadata Management, Applications Management, Operations Management, Content Management, Performance Management, Identity Management, and Enterprise Management. ASG is headquartered in Naples, Florida, USA, with more than 60 offices serving the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Asia/Pacific.