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NewEra Software planning support for IBM’s Health Checker

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Extract from announcement, September 16, 2005

NewEra Software, Inc., announced that it is planning to support the IBM Health Checker Framework. The Health Checker Framework, an integral part of IBM system availability assurance strategy, will first be delivered on September 30, 2005 as an integral part of z/OS V1R7.

IBM states the Health Checker Framework “provides a foundation to help simplify and automate the identification of potential configuration problems before they impact system availability.” IBM further states “the architecture of the framework supports checkers written by IBM, independent software vendors (ISVs), and users.”

From NewEra's perspective, the Health Checker Framework is being viewed as an enabler for thousands of System Inspectors currently available in its products, IMAGE Focus and IMAGE Sentry. Their System Inspectors are designed to validate the correctness, integrity and state of z/OS configuration components, most notably the Operating System and its subsystems JES, VTAM, and TCP/IP.