Social Security Administration, Office of Acquisition and Grants, 1710 Gwynn Oak Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland 21207-0696

70 -- HIERARCHICAL STORAGE MANAGER ADD ON PRODUCTS DUE 081197 POC Marcia Friedman Katz Tel: 410-965-9477 The Social Security Administration (SSA) is seeking sources who can provide additional information about add on software product(s) that enhance DASD Management and the use of IBM's Hierarchical Storage Manager (HSM). SSA has already researched available product literature and is requesting detailed responses to specify product offerings to meet the following requirements: 1. Monitor DASD and tape usage by application (or other filter group) in active and migrated status. Provide a mechanism for tracking approved vs. used allocations and issue warning messages for applications that have over allocated beyond approved limits. This mechanism should be able to replace an in-house Accounting Report that reflects a base allocation amount for each project/application group with additions for current usage plus future estimates. The "checkbook" format of this report shows deposits (returns, future requirements) and withdrawals (new allocation requests) for each project/application group; 2. Perform Space Utilization Monitoring across Storage Groups and Volumes; 3. Generate a wide range of pre-formatted detail and summary reports that can be sorted in many different ways. Allow for the creation of ad hoc reports using logic such as AND/OR statements that can narrow the selection criteria to specific conditions; 4. Maintain and analyze historical trending data, perform "what-if" scenarios and other functions related to capacity planning; 5. Monitor BCDS, MCDS and OCDS entries. Provide detailed and summary reports with flexible sorts and filters on the CDSs. Execute actions that trigger cleanup or FIX CDS commands. Show the cumulative number of recalls for each dataset (to indicate possible thrashing), the number of backup versions for each dataset, and identify datasets for each HSM tape; 6. Monitor migration and recall activity. Display separate and combined views of the total amount of data migrated to ML1 and ML2 as well as the amount of data recalled from ML1 and ML2; 7. Alter Management Classes, select or report on Management Classes without forcing a recall of each dataset that matches the Management Class criteria. Allow for Management Classes to be overridden in specific cases; 8. Perform threshold management with Alerts and Automatic Migrations; 9. Monitor and report on Allocated vs. Used Space on volumes and/or Storage Groups. List capacity maximums, allocated space, "free" space, and used space across defined groups of volumes. Offerors should specify their specific products and detail how they will meet each requirement. Vendors capable of providing software product(s) with the above required characteristics are invited to submit complete information, product descriptions, pricing, brochures, and GSA schedules, if applicable, about their product. Interested parties must respond in writing within 15 calendar days from the date of this publication. Please refer to MFK97HSM. THIS IS A REQUEST FOR PRODUCT INFORMATION ONLY! This is not a request for proposal (RFP). No contract award will be made on the basis of responses received; however, this information will be used in SSA's assessment of capable sources. The Government does not intend to pay for information received. REQUESTS FOR COPIES OF A SOLICITATION WILL NOT BE HONORED OR ACKNOWLEDGED. (0206)

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