IBM Z® Storage Management Suite is a product bundle that storage administrators use to holistically manage and evaluate their z/OS® storage environment, covering everything from monitoring and allocation to catalog and HSM.

IBM Z Storage Management Suite provides extensive capabilities to monitor and manage z/OS storage hardware and software resources, including private, hybrid or cloud storage for z/OS.

The products included in this suite are:

• IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management
• IBM Tivoli Advanced Audit for DFSMShsm
• IBM Tivoli Advanced Catalog Management for z/OS
• IBM Tivoli Advanced Reporting and Management for DFSMShsm
• IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS
• IBM Z OMEGAMON® AI for Storage

Benefits

• **Monitor storage resources: **Monitor storage resources and manage key z/OS storage subsystems with flexible reporting, customizable intelligent alerts, detailed drill down and automated responses to quickly resolve problems.
• **Improve storage operational performance: **Improve z/OS storage operational performance with efficient operation of storage allocation controls. Use private, hybrid and public cloud storage for flexible, cost-efficient storage.
• **Identify and prevent storage issues: **Identify storage shortage issues and drill down to the root cause for resolution before they cause problems. Common responses to problems can be automated.

Products included in the suite

• **Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management: **A tool that helps prevent and reduce processing delays and interruptions that result when x37 abends and errors occur because there is insufficient disk space for a new allocation. 
• **Tivoli Advanced Audit for DFSMShsm: **Delivers a set of auditing commands that help support the health of the control data sets. It keeps your z/OS environment trouble-free with fast, accurate and flexible audits. With Advanced Audit for DFSMShsm, storage administrators can maintain efficient metadata environments and prevent temporary or permanent loss of data access.
• **Tivoli Advanced Catalog Management: **Delivers features to help you audit, diagnose, recover, manage and access your data assets, even in the event of unforeseen problems ranging from human errors to natural disasters.
• **Tivoli Advanced Reporting and Management for DFSMShsm: **Provides the management reporting needed to know what’s going on inside this critical subsystem.
• **Cloud Tape Connector: **Designed to quickly and efficiently allow you to write sequential files concurrently to tape/disk and to a private, hybrid or public cloud repository, without having to run extra backup utilities. 
• **OMEGAMON AI for Storage: **The comprehensive monitor for z/OS I/O subsystem performance and storage availability. The product combines comprehensive storage performance monitoring with a flexible, easy-to-use browser interface that helps you clearly understand storage conditions and help ensure optimal performance.