Look at the invoice
The conversation starts with your current monthly recurring cost and the capacity it reflects. That establishes whether an analysis is worth running at all.
Your mainframe still
earns its place.
Does its invoice?
DWC-IT works with NeuroTune.ai and specialist mainframe partners to analyze IBM monthly recurring costs and z-series performance—identifying optimization opportunities without asking your team to build a tuning program from scratch.
01 — THE CHALLENGE
MIPS you need.
MIPS you need.
An MRC bill you
inherited.
The workload is still essential. The cost profile around it was set years ago, under different assumptions.
Monthly recurring cost on a z-series environment is driven by measured capacity, and measured capacity is driven by how work is scheduled, how data is accessed and where inefficiency has been allowed to accumulate. Very little of that is visible from the invoice.
Addressing it properly needs mainframe specialists with time available—two things most organizations do not have spare. Competent mainframe people are expensive and generally working at or above capacity, which is why this analysis is so often postponed rather than declined.
- × No internal bandwidth for a tuning program
- × Specialist skills scarce and costly to hire
- × Cost drivers not visible in the monthly invoice
- × Any change must not compromise required performance
02 — THE DWC APPROACH
Specialist capability,
Specialist capability,
borrowed not built.
Rather than asking you to assemble a mainframe optimization team, DWC-IT brings one. With our mainframe partners we apply NeuroTune.ai to the performance and cost data your environment already produces, then work through what it surfaces with people who have run these platforms.
- ✓ AI-assisted analysis combined with specialist review
- ✓ Offered on a contingent commercial basis
- ✓ No new headcount and no long implementation program
- ✓ Required performance treated as a constraint, not a variable
NeuroTune.ai × DWC-IT
03 — HOW THE PROCESS WORKS
A few man hours
A few man hours
of collection.
The effort asked of your team is deliberately small, and it is front-loaded. DWC-IT supplies the collection instructions; your staff run them.
Collect the data
DWC-IT provides instructions for VSAM and DB2 data collection. The tools monitor and report—they do not modify anything in the environment.
Analyze performance
NeuroTune.ai and the mainframe specialists examine the collected data for inefficiency and for the relationship between workload behavior and measured capacity.
Present the opportunities
You receive the optimization opportunities identified, the expected effect on cost and the performance implications of each one—before anything is implemented.
Implement and verify
Agreed changes are made with your team, and the result is measured against the baseline the collection established.
Your data stays safe
All collection tools are monitoring tools. They observe VSAM and DB2 activity and report on it; they do not alter data, workloads or configuration.
04 — A CLIENT EXAMPLE
What the analysis
What the analysis
found in one estate.
DWC-IT cites this engagement as an example of scale, not as a forecast. Every environment differs, and the only way to know what is available in yours is to run the analysis.
$1,000,000
Course-of-contract savings cited by DWC-IT for a client with a 1000 MSU machine, following an engagement using NeuroTune.ai. This is a single client example and not a guaranteed outcome.
Illustrative direction only · results vary by environment
05 — POTENTIAL BENEFITS
What an engagement
What an engagement
can put on the table.
Stated as possibilities, because that is what they are until your own data has been analyzed.
Lower recurring cost
Potentially reduce monthly recurring and monthly license charges by addressing what actually drives measured capacity.
Improved efficiency
Identify inefficiency in data access and workload behavior that has accumulated over years of change.
Performance preserved
Required performance is a constraint on the work. Savings that cost you throughput are not savings.
C-level visibility
A recurring-cost reduction shows on the balance sheet in a way most infrastructure projects cannot.
No hiring required
Specialist attention without adding permanent mainframe headcount or a multi-year internal program.
Low downside
The commercial model is contingent: no savings while maintaining performance means no fee for the optimization engagement.
06 — ENTERPRISE EXPERTISE
We were here for
We were here for
the first mainframe wave.
DWC-IT has been in enterprise technology since 1977, when mainframes and their peripherals were the business. That history is the reason this service exists: the platform never went away, and neither did the people who understand it.
IBM z-seriesMLC / MRC analysisVSAMDB2MSU capacityNeuroTune.ai
1977Enterprise technology experience, starting with mainframes
ContingentNo savings while maintaining performance, no fee
07 — START WITH THE INVOICE
Look at your MRC bill.
Look at your MRC bill.
Then talk to us.
A short conversation establishes whether an analysis is likely to be worthwhile in your environment. If it is not, DWC-IT will say so.