Is Your Company Vulnerable?

Every iSeries (AS/400) has a “Window of Vulnerability”. The Window of Vulnerability exists between the last backup and the next backup (usually nightly). How is a company vulnerable during this time period? Any changes to objects during this “Window” isn’t archived. File journalling doesn’t address this issue, it only archives file data, not objects and object attributes. Mirroring technology doesn’t address this issue. High-availability systems doesn’t address this issue. A company is vulnerable in 3 distinct ways: Time, Money, Resources

Time
Researching problems takes time. Usually the most critical research takes place when time is most limited.
Money
Time is money. When employees and contractors spend valuable time researching problems that occur during this window of vulnerability, it costs your company money.
Resources
When an employee is wasting time researching and correcting problems, they are not working on their regularly assigned tasks.

Suppose a problem occurs (for any number of reasons) that results in the necessity to restore from backups. Once the objects are restored from the backup media, they are only as current as when the backup took place. What about any changes that took place during the day to the objects? File journalling will solve the problem for the file data, but what about changes to objects such as data areas, job descriptions, programs, etc.? What about the attribute changes to a file, program or any other object?

UndoIT is a real-time object audit and archiving system that closes the "Window of Vulnerability" for your company.


Has something like this ever happened in your company?...
Scenario #1:
An employee signs onto a production machine to research a problem that was reported by one of your users. While researching the problem, the employee updates a data area to aid in running a particular report he is looking into. Later he signs off, forgetting to reset the data area.
Later that day, several users call the support center to report that some processes aren’t running correctly. After researching, you realize that the data area is the culprit. You ask the employee what the original values were prior to updating them, but he can’t remember.
Options:
• Restore from backup, OR
• With UndoIT, you simply use the WRKOBJHST command to display all users who have modified the data area, and you quickly see what the original attributes were prior to the update. You restore the data area values, which solves the user’s problem.		 Scenario #2:
As a developer you create and re-create programs, files, etc. many times during the day. One morning, you were updating a source member in PDM and after renaming a few, you removed some others. Later that day you realized that one of the removed members contained a subroutine that you really would like to copy into your current source.
Options:
• Restore from backup, OR
• With UndoIT you simply type SNAPSHOT and enter the name of the removed member. After viewing the member, you choose to restore it into the library of your choice. Once restored, you copy the subroutine into your current code.		 Scenario #3:
As a system administrator you periodically are required to perform administration on files. This sometimes involves making copies, performing CLRPFM, CPYF, etc. You have a variety of “working” copies of files in your own personal library.
One afternoon you realize after several copies and deletes, that you inadvertently deleted a file that you have just created this morning and populated with data throughout the day.
Options:
• Re-create the file and data (No backups available), OR
• Type UNDO and undo the delete of the file. Alternatively, you can use the SNAPSHOT command to view the archived file, then, if necessary, you can restore the file to a library of your choice.
Personal Computers (PCs) have had the capability to “UNDO” for years. Now this powerful capability is available to any iSeries or AS/400 user. UndoIT closes the “Window of Vulnerability” for companies by providing a powerful, instantaneous archive of vital changes and deletions to objects.

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