An Inventory System Designed Specifically for the Data Center
The Hardware/Software Inventory System (H/SIS) is an extremely flexible and comprehensive information system designed to facilitate documenting and managing a companys hardware and software assets. The information tracked includes financial, vendor, technical, physical/logical configuration, administrative and contractual details. H/SIS supplies complete and timely data allowing for more effective planning, configuration management, and cost control.
H/SIS is a highly cost-effective solution to inventory and configuration management, offering more flexibility, functionality, and value than competing mainframe or client/server-based products. DCMS H/SIS is also very easy to install, configure, and use! The learning curve for system administrators and users is very short; usage is highly intuitive and self-explanatory; extensive online help screens and tutorials are available with a single key stroke.

H/SIS Feature Summary

H/SIS allows you to:
Quickly review and report on your hardware/software inventory, component relationships, configuration, connections, and financials.
Easily allocate and control costs, plan for lease renewals and acquisitions, perform cost analysis and comparative pricing.
Simplify such tasks as locating equipment and features, re-configuring and installing equipment, determining port and cable usage, managing network addresses.

Expedite hardware problem resolution by providing detailed information on configuration and component relationships, cabling, equipment location, vendor, telephone maintenance coverage, and engineering change level.
Expedite software problem resolution by providing software product information including component, version, release, maintenance level, and vendor technical support contact.

Accomplish even more than what is listed above!
Action item dates provide for timely management of lease renewals, preventative maintenance, software expirations, and other time critical events.
H/SISs online mass change/delete capability eases database maintenance.
A sophisticated online search facility provides the ability to quickly retrieve a single item or groups of items by specifying combinations of values from a list of over 40 unique system and user-defined indexes.
Complex data searches are extremely fast due to the unique H/SIS database structure.

A variety of predefined reports provide for financial reporting and component relationship information.
A powerful and easy-to-use interactive Report Writer Facility allows H/SIS users to quickly produce additional reports, tailored to their specific needs.
The selected data may be downloaded to a PC for further processing.
Managers and supervisors have instantaneous access to information for answers to questions such as: Who has a CAD terminal? My group is being charged for which hardware and software components? Dont we have an an extra 486 around here somewhere? What hardware features and software are on my project leaders desks PCs? Whats the real total cost of our server networks including software and hardware?

Installation and customization is fast and easy. Most tables come pre-loaded and require few modifications.
A completely tailored and fully usable system, ready to load inventory data, can be configured in a single day.
The learning curve for users and system administrators is very short, usage is highly intuitive and self explanatory, extensive online help screens and tutorials are available with a single key stroke.

H/SIS provides a seamless interface with DCMS PM/RS (Problem Management and Reporting System) to automatically pass information to the PM/RS incident record to show the person to contact, phone number, vendor, device connections, version, release, Fmids, maintenance coverage, etc.
Access to the H/SIS data base is available to PM/RS users with a single keystroke.

Operating Environment for H/SIS
H/SIS is available for any processor that supports the z/OS or OS/390 operating system environments. H/SIS utilizes ISPF/Dialog Manager (DM) and ISPF/Program Development Facility (PDF). VSAM is used as the basis for the DCMS proprietary DBMS. H/SIS supports all versions and releases of z/OS, OS/390, ISPF and VSAM.