Hunter Engineering Finds Hidden Benefit in New Centerfield Technology iSeries Tool

The iSeries staff at Hunter Engineering of Bridgeton, Missouri was pleasantly surprised after installing a new iSeries performance metric reporting tool developed by Centerfield Technology, Inc of Rochester, Minnesota.

Rochester, MN (PRWEB) August 2, 2005 -- The iSeries staff at Hunter Engineering of Bridgeton, Missouri was pleasantly surprised after installing a new iSeries performance metric reporting tool developed by Centerfield Technology, Inc of Rochester, Minnesota:

Scott Struif, Software Development Manager:

We bought delta/TRACKER to analyze what indexes are actually being used by the optimizer, so we can get rid of the ones we dont need. However, we also used an additional included report ands, in the first 10 minutes of using the product we were able to free up 25% of disk space.

One of the reports showed us we had 89GB worth of log files in IFS directory /QIBM/UserData/OS400/MGTC/service.

I scheduled a QShell script to run periodically to clean out that directory:

QSH CMD('find /QIBM/UserData/OS400/MGTC/service -name "*.log" -mtime +30 -exec rm -f ;)

Great product!"
Using a series of low-overhead collection utilities feeding a sophisticated analytical iSeries database, delta/TRACKER supplies essential data collection, analysis, and reporting functions intended to help IT administrators and managers monitor, control, and communicate about operational status in new and better ways. The application of delta/TRACKER yields a rich set of over 50 reports that track activity and changes over time -- providing better information for making proactive decisions about database and system maintenance.

In this new world of ported, cross-platform applications, huge databases, and rapidly growing historical data, we see more need for iSeries shops to automate SQL performance reporting, especially those operations that need to maintain and improve performance without increasing staff size," says Elvis Budimlic, Centerfield Technology Development Director. Given the fact that Hunter Engineerings wasted disk space was in the IFS, an area of the system with less visibility, Im not surprised that delta/TRACKER report was so useful."

Starting at $3000 per iSeries server, a maintained delta/TRACKER license includes the services of Centerfield Technology development staff, which will create additional custom reports as specified by customers, and then ship out the new reports to the entire delta/TRACKER install base as they are developed.

About Centerfield Technology
Maximizing your iSeries business investment, Centerfield offers IBM ServerProven® system/application tools and utilities that ensure high availability, performance and access to an organizations business critical information. Products help companies deploy, enhance and manage mission-critical applications and iSeries operations with a toolset focused on performance, security, user management and control. The company has quickly grown to become the leading software vendor providing solutions to the complex problem of managing query and SQL-intensive environments worldwide.

Centerfield Technology is located in Rochester, Minnesota, USA. For more information call +1-507-287-8119 or visit www.centerfieldtechnology.com.

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