System Performance for IMS
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System Performance for IMS
Key features
- Reduces the risk of costly outages
- Quickly identifies and resolves problems before they affect end-user service levels
- Simplifies systems management with a single tool to manage any implementation of IMS--from traditional configurations to sophisticated parallel sysplex clusters
- Delivers performance tuning, reporting, cost allocation, and automation
Business challenge
The enterprise server has evolved into the backbone of eBusiness. IMS drives not only legacy processing, but also client/server applications and web technologies. Globalization and eBusiness demand continuous availability. New technologies, coupled with growing data and the need for continuous availability, increase the complexity of managing IMS applications and systems.
In this highly complex environment, you need a simple way to monitor, measure, and manage IMS performance and utilization. You need to prevent problems before they affect users.
BMC Software solution
The System Performance for IMS solution simplifies IMS management. It
- Monitors and manages IMS systems and applications
- Clearly shows details about performance issues, systems, and workloads
- Provides a single interface for managing traditional implementations and sophisticated parallel sysplex (IMSplex) data-sharing groups.
- Identifies and corrects IMS system problems easily and effectively.
You define what to monitor and measure, so System Performance for IMS provides the information that you need to ensure continuous availability and optimal performance in your environment.
System Performance for IMS comprises the following products:
- MAINVIEW® for IMS Online
- MAINVIEW® for IMS Offline
- MAINVIEW® AutoOPERATOR™ for IMS
Maximize availability
System Performance for IMS improves system and application availability by identifying problems, notifying you of the problems, and enabling you to correct the problems before they cause an outage. System Performance for IMS monitors resource utilization and transaction throughput, and it pinpoints events that can cause outages.
Improve IMS performance
You need to know when transactions are not performing as well as they should. System Performance for IMS improves performance by detecting any degradation in workload throughput or erratic use of resources.
System Performance for IMS measures resource utilization of transactions and IMS itself. System Performance for IMS provides analysis tools that enable you to determine what is causing poor performance, so you can decide how to improve performance.
Preventing problems is far more effective than correcting them after they occur. To help you prevent problems before they cause outages, System Performance for IMS evaluates multiple conditions to determine if true exceptions exist or are emerging. It provides alarm messages with powerful capabilities to help you navigate to a detailed view of the conditions causing specific problem and preserves information surrounding an exception for subsequent analysis.
Resolve problems rapidly
Without System Performance for IMS, the first indication that you may have of a system problem is an irate user who is complaining about response time or even down time. When you get the call from the user, you may be forced to read batch reports to see why the response time is so slow.
With System Performance for IMS you can keep users satisfied. It proactively notifies you of situations that could cause slow down or outages. But it does much more than find potential problems--it also helps you quickly resolve those problems. You can react to events reliably and instantaneously, eliminating costly outages.
System Performance for IMS can issue commands directly to IMS or execute automation to carry out actions and conduct further analysis.
Manage IMS workloads
To manage and balance IMS workloads across multiple environments, System Performance for IMS continuously monitors the usage and availability of IMS resources and the activities of workloads. It issues warnings as soon as a problem is detected.
Report detailed performance and transaction history
To provide valuable information about your IMS environment, System Performance for IMS provides extensive details of each transaction that has been completed, presents extensive IMS activity information in real-time, and simplifies obtaining historical information.
System Performance for IMS provides tools for tracing application activity. It captures summary statistics of the execution of every transaction processed. It filters, captures, and identifies transactions that do not match expectations, and it provides detailed tracing capabilities to debug complex application performance problems.
System Performance for IMS provides extensive transaction-level reporting and analysis capabilities as well as performance and trend information. System Performance for IMS enables you to understand and maintain the balance between the volume of work and the capacity to process it.
Resource usage charge back
In a complex IMS environment, it can be difficult to find where IMS resources are being used. System Performance for IMS captures resource usage and delivers a customizable billing facility to charge customers precisely for the services they have used and provides a customizable charge-back structure.
MAINVIEW Explorer
MAINVIEW Explorer provides Web-ready GUI that enables you to see performance-related information and make informed decisions about enterprise server systems, subsystems, transactions, and workloads. MAINVIEW Explorer provides complete access to IMS and MAINVIEW products via a Web browser from any desktop. It uses charts, active status icons, trees, and other graphical displays to show non- technical personnel what is happening to the enterprise server system in terms that are easily understood.