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Serena StarTool

The fast track to high availability

Mainframe developers can create high availability applications with speed, accuracy, and efficiency using the Serena® StarTool® family. Pinpoint the source of application failures and optimize I/O performance to increase the uptime of vital enterprise-wide applications.


Automation speeds up time-consuming testing and debugging

StarTool product family
StarTool product family

  • Enhanced developer productivity
  • Reduced application downtime
  • Increased online application
  • Availability
  • Maximized I/O throughput

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A comprehensive environment for managing mainframe file types

Serena StarTool File and Data Management (FDM) offers:

  • Easy editing
  • Wide range of tools
  • Generation of safe test data
  • Simplified data security 

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Automate the complex process of diagnosing abends

StarTool Fault Analysis
StarTool Fault Analysis

Serena StarTool DA Batch offers:
  • Dump information storage, retrieval, and automatic analysis
  • Production of three kinds of dumps
  • Extensive "point-and-shoot" capability
  • Plain English displays of failure information

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Application tuning made easy

Serena StarTool IOO uses intelligent, industry-accepted rules of thumb to automatically tune I/O operations.

  • Improved productivity
  • Lowered costs
  • Application run times reduced by up to 50%
  • Support for VSAM, QSAM, BSAM, and EXCP datasets

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Operational Benefits

  • Applications run faster
  • Applications have higher uptime
  • Programmers are more productive

Development Benefits

  • Development efficiency increases
  • Applications improve
  • Test data generation is easy