Multiterm Features
- Complete multi-session management for IBM z Series mainframes – IBM® z/OS®, z/VM® (also, GCS and CMS Access option), and z/VSE®.
- NVAS replacement option; Capable of replacing other legacy z/OS session managers.
- Lightweight with low costs, especially compared to competing solutions.
- Customizable user profiles; End-user support facilities (Help Desk).
- Screen print facility; Scroll back through screens.
- Record and playback keystrokes.
- Menu-driven message sending system.
- Terminal lock facility lets users password protect their terminal and session while away.
- Easy interface to popular security packages: ACF2™, Top Secret®, and RACF®.
- CMS Access Option allows sites running z/OS or z/VSE to access z/VM.
Multiterm is a lightweight NVAS replacement option to consider
Use Multiterm to replace your z/OS session manager and save. NVAS (IBM® Tivoli® NetView® Access Services) is just one of these legacy session managers.
Multiterm Details
Multiterm is the premier session manager for IBM z Series mainframes with z/OS, z/VM (with GCS and CMS Access options), and z/VSE.
Support personnel can use powerful online features to connect with users who need help, directly viewing and solving problems, regardless of the user’s application or location.
Multiterm allows users to simultaneously activate as many z/OS mainframe sessions as needed. A single key stroke switches sessions. Dynamic session switching and menu access to applications allow users to rapidly acquire different applications as needed.
The Help Desk features of Multiterm allow support personnel to guide users through their problems no matter where that user is–across the room or across the country. Here are just some of the help desk commands:
- Watch–this gives support a real-time view of the user’s terminal.
- Peek–allows the support person to scroll back through the user’s history screens to find a problem and fix it more quickly.
- Take–enables support staff to work with a user’s session at their own terminal.
- Give–sends the session back to the user.
Need an NVAS Replacement?
Depending on your shop’s requirements, Multiterm, our multi-session management solution for the mainframe, may serve your organization well as an NVAS alternative.
With our award-winning, SDS technical support, we’ll be there to help you with the transition, but it shouldn’t be a difficult process. If you have any questions about replacing NVAS or moving away from your existing IBM z Series session manager, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
Environment, System Requirements
Multiterm takes only about an hour to install! It operates with 327x or compatible terminals – SNA or non-SNA, local or remote, and including ASCII terminals with protocol converters. Here’s a breakdown of platform-specific requirements/specifications:
z/OS
- z/OS/ESA
- IBM ACF/VTAM and VSAM
- Five cylinders of 3380 disk space, or equivalent
z/VM
- Runs as a disconnected virtual service machine.
- Sessions go to terminals through logical device support
- Requires z/VM/ESA
- One virtual service machine
- Five cylinders of 3380 disk space, or equivalent
- Support for CTCA connection, optional
- Virtual memory needs vary
- Can interface with the SMSG facility of z/VM
z/VM with CMS Access Option
- Provides z/OS and z/VSE sites with access to z/VM
- Operates as a z/VM service machine
- Connects to Multiterm by a virtual CTCA defined in z/VM
- Requires z/VM/ESA
- One virtual service machine
- Five cylinders of 3380 disk space, or equivalent
- A CTCA or 3088 device
Datasheet
z/VSE
- Requires z/VSE/ESA
- IBM ACF/VTAM and VSAM
- Five cylinders of 3380 disk space, or equivalent
Free Demo/Trial
We offer individualized product demonstrations by request. Your organization can also try SDS Software on your system for 30 days, free of charge.
Contact SDS
Phone: (800) 443-6183
Phone: (763) 571-9000
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