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ASG-Zara™
for Automated Tape Management

ASG-Zara is a cost-effective, online media management system. Zara secures, audits, and monitors valuable IT data in an OS/390® environment, while providing real-time access to tape management data.

With Zara’s easy-to-use formatted screens, its simple operating commands, and its online customization features, your technical staff will quickly master the system. Zara vigilantly protects critical data through retention, interactively tracks data for administration and reporting purposes, offers real-time robotic support, and provides sophisticated vaulting functions. In addition, Zara tracks the physical location and data set contents for every volume, determines the status of tapes, and performs database maintenance.

Zara’s spectrum of functions gives an organization greater control of its tape libraries. After JCL has called all the data sets, Zara stores information about tape cartridges. Zara also identifies media that should be scratched for reuse and data sets or volume numbers that should be protected. Zara tracks archived data, whether it is stored on-site or off-site. With this tool, your staff will enjoy access to in-house and off-site information, presented as online displays and hard copy reports.