Ongoing Advantages of TurboTune Optimization
TurboTune® is not just as a one-time tuning utility. It’s a strategic performance and sustainability platform.
The benefits of consistent optimization:
- Guaranteed Access Path Integrity
Benefit: Ensures that access paths remain stable and optimal over time.
Why It Matters: In high-volume environments, even minor changes in access paths can lead to substantial performance degradation. TTSQL provides ongoing visibility and recommendations that prevent performance regressions, saving time, money, and internal troubleshooting effort.
Peace of mind that Db2 queries are consistently performing as expected — no surprises after a package rebind before promoting programs to production.
- Continuous Dataset Health Monitoring
Benefit: Proactively identifies emerging inefficiencies (e.g., CI splits, index skew, excessive extents).
Why It Matters: Workloads change. Without continual oversight, optimized datasets degrade over time. TurboTune acts as a real-time health check on VSAM structures, ensuring sustained performance and fewer emergency fixes.
Think of it like a wellness plan for your datasets: prevention, not just cure.
- Reduced DBA Workload
Benefit: Automates tedious, high-risk tuning analysis.
Why It Matters: Your DBAs and systems engineers can spend their time on high-value projects instead of troubleshooting performance issues or analyzing SQL behavior manually. TTSQL handles the “heavy lifting” — surfacing the exact actions needed, backed by data.
Free up senior staff from spending weeks decoding access path behavior.
- Operational Consistency & Auditability
Benefit: Transparent and repeatable processes that are easy to document and justify.
Why It Matters: In regulated industries or government environments, you need to prove that system changes are controlled, justified, and safe. CPS tools provide detailed recommendations and logs that simplify internal reviews, change board processes, and audits.
Compliance and IT governance teams love it just as much as the performance team.
- Protection from Cost Creep
Benefit: Prevents silent cost increases tied to unoptimized workloads.
Why It Matters: Even a small drift in CPU usage can result in significant increases in Monthly License Charges (MLC). CPS tools help agencies and enterprises lock in savings and avoid future budget surprises.
You wouldn’t tune a piano once and expect it to stay perfect forever. Mainframes are no different.
- Strategic Visibility for IT Leaders
Benefit: Gives CIOs and IT ops teams actionable insights into system behavior.
Why It Matters: Visibility into workload behavior, access path volatility, and dataset health enables better decision-making around scaling, investment, and modernization priorities.
It’s not just about tuning — it’s about seeing and steering.
- Faster Problem Resolution
Benefit: Provides historical performance context and clear diagnostics.
Why It Matters: When issues arise, teams waste time trying to isolate root causes. With CPS tools, your team can quickly compare before/after states, access path changes, and dataset volatility, reducing mean time to resolution (MTTR).
When a performance issue hits, your team isn’t starting from scratch — they’re starting with a map.
- Support for Agile DevOps Cycles
Benefit: Seamlessly supports CI/CD or iterative deployment cycles by flagging regressions or inefficiencies introduced by new changes.
Why It Matters: In hybrid environments where legacy and modern platforms interact, TTSQL ensures each release doesn’t accidentally degrade performance, maintaining confidence in rollout cycles.
Your DevOps pipeline gets guardrails for mainframe performance — every release is safer.
- Knowledge Retention in High-Turnover Environments
Benefit: Codifies system behavior and tuning decisions that would otherwise be held by individuals.
Why It Matters: Mainframe teams are shrinking, and institutional knowledge is walking out the door. CPS tools preserve tuning logic, patterns, and optimization history, so new teams can pick up where others left off.
Turnover doesn’t have to mean starting over.
- Integration with Strategic Modernization Planning
Benefit: Surfaces workload patterns and data structures that are best candidates for replatforming or refactoring.
Why It Matters: When organizations begin evaluating modernization options, CPS tools provide baseline performance insights to guide which systems to retain, optimize, or migrate.
Your modernization decisions are backed by real usage data — not assumptions.
- Low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
Benefit: Minimal resource overhead and long-term operational savings.
Why It Matters: Because the CPS platform is lightweight, non-invasive, and doesn’t require software installs or agents, it delivers value without burdening IT infrastructure or staff.
It delivers results without dragging your team down or requiring capital upgrades.
- Organizational Alignment Across Silos
Benefit: Provides a common language between ops, performance, ESG, and finance teams.
Why It Matters: By quantifying tuning in cost terms, CPS tools allow cross-functional teams to align around shared metrics and performance goals.
Ops gets speed. Finance gets savings. Everybody wins.
- Future-Proofing Against Regulatory & Licensing Changes
Benefit: Helps adapt to changes in IBM licensing models and reporting mandates.
Why It Matters: As mainframe licensing evolves (e.g., tailored-fit pricing) , CPS ensures you’re already, optimizing, and ready to adapt.
Stay one step ahead of the curves and cost shifts.
