MainView® for DBCTL
Key features
- Saves investment costs and simplifies systems management with a single tool to manage any implementation of DBCTL
- Provides proactive control by quickly and easily identifying and resolving DBCTL systems management problems before they impact end-user service levels
- Delivers DBCTL monitoring, performance tuning, reporting, cost allocation and automation
- Provides a clear path to show details about performance issues, systems and workloads
- Reduces the risk of costly outages
- Is easy to install, maintain and operate
Business challenge
IT organizations must provide proactive control of their DBCTL environments. They need to identify and solve DBCTL management problems before they impact the end user. Managing DBCTL implementations also requires an intuitive tool that is easy to install, maintain and operate.
The BMC Software solution
The MainView for DBCTL product from BMC Software removes the complexity that surrounds the management of DBCTL. It is tightly integrated with MainView for CICS to provide a complete picture of the IT environment.
This solution is based on proven technology of the MainView product family and can be deployed rapidly. It satisfies the expanding DBCTL systems management requirements.
MainView simplifies DBCTL management by providing the same interface for managing traditional implementations or data-sharing environments. Its flexibility and ease of use make MainView attractive to all levels of IT support, reducing the demands on a highly skilled technical force. And, MainView is easy to install, maintain and operate.
Key functions and benefits
- Keeps DBCTL in harmony with workloads
- Interweaves action services from AutoOPERATOR™
- Quickly discovers DBCTL performance problems
- Detects degradation instantly
- Determines exceptions immediately
- Achieves rapid problem resolution with integrated action services
- Obtains detailed performance and transaction history
- Traces applications easily
- Analyzes trends and recovers costs
- Delivers immediate value
- Provides rapid installation
- Builds on the power of MainView
Keeps DBCTL in harmony with workloads
- Performs constant surveillance of the DBCTL environment by continuously monitoring the use and availability of DBCTL resources and the activities of workloads
- Monitors the interaction with other subsystems, such as DB2* or MQSeries
- Issues warnings as soon as a problem is detected
- Offers an easy-to-use solution with full analysis capabilities to rapidly determine the cause of poor performance or abnormal circumstances
Interweaves action services from AutoOPERATOR
The AutoOPERATOR product option provides the automated, proactive edge to detect situations as they emerge and the ability to determine their cause before they become significant problems. By exploiting the synergy with AutoOPERATOR for IMS, reaction to events can be performed reliably and instantaneously, eliminating costly outages.
Quickly discovers DBCTL performance problems
- Allows operations and systems programming departments to understand and maintain the balance between the volume of work and the capacity to process it
- Uses refined and effective sampling techniques combined with true measurements of transaction response times to depict an accurate reflection of workload profiles
- Provides users with a breakdown of response time into processing components and delay factors
- Identifies resource constraints and pinpoints bottlenecks
Detects degradation instantly
- Offers highly efficient monitoring technology to continuously sample workload activity and resource use
- Detects any degradation in workload throughput or erratic use of resources
- Offers options to drill down to extensive levels of detail in each problem area
Determines exceptions immediately
- Uses a powerful, integrated exception-generation engine to deliver access to performance information provided by MainView
- Accesses multiple conditions to determine whether true exceptions exist or are emerging
- Provides alarm messages with powerful point-and-shoot capabilities to automatically help IT staff navigate to a detailed view of the conditions causing specific problems
- Preserves information surrounding an exception for subsequent analysis
- Presents extensive data to AutoOPERATOR as a set of variables, extending the power of performance automation
Achieves rapid problem resolution with integrated action services
- Empowers authorized users to perform dynamic tuning functions
- Resolves queuing problems caused by insufficient message regions with a simple line command assigning the class to an idle region
Obtains detailed performance and transaction history
- Presents the vast wealth of DBCTL activity information in real-time and is backed by extensive historical reporting capabilities
- Simplifies obtaining historical knowledge by issuing a command to change the time frame from the current time to a designated point in history
In a DBCTL environment, where the difference between good and poor performance is measured in tenths of a second or less, it is not always easy to determine user transaction problems in real-time.
MainView for DBCTL:
- Provides extensive details of each completed thread, which can be retained and recalled online
- Filters, captures and identifies threads that do not match expectations
Traces applications easily
- Offers detailed tracing capabilities to help debug complex application performance problems associated with the execution of particular transactions
- Provides abundant information in chronological order on each type of call to DL/I, DB2 or MQSeries
- Includes details such as elapsed time, return codes and I/O information
Analyzes trends and recovers costs
- Uses an event collector to generate and externalize comprehensive data on user and transaction activity
- Includes a performance reporter component that uses records to augment DBCTL log data
- Allows users to obtain extensive reports on user and system activity and database performance
- Provides reports to verify whether service level agreements are being met and to understand long-term trends and changes in overall behavioral patterns of the DBCTL system
- Delivers a billing facility to charge customers precisely for the services they have used
Delivers immediate value
- Single solution – Manages traditional and Parallel Sysplex environments
- Unparalleled integration – Is integrated with MainView for MVS, DB2, CICS, AutoOPERATOR and PATROL® for MQ, using a single interface
- Extensive detail – Abundant information on all DBCTL resources and activity
- Unprecedented tracing – Provides information on every call, return code and timing
- Advanced automation – Reacts to events when they occur and examines performance data
- Alarm management – Monitors multiple situations before raising an alarm
- Database performance – Offers unique views for monitoring database activity and response times
- Delay avoidance – Decompresses performance pictures to identify areas to conduct analysis
- Dynamic tuning – Modifies the status of displayed DBCTL objects
- Easy navigation – Directs access to the most frequently used detailed information
Provides rapid installation and security
- Installs quickly with the BMC Software AIM or CPO installation mechanism to deliver a complete pre-built SMP/E environment and simple panel-driven customization
- Typically allows for installation and customization to be completed within a few hours
- Provides views that can be customized and tailored to suit individual site requirements
- Offers sample automated solutions to common availability problems for out-of-the-box deployment
- Allows views, services and commands to be fully secured through easy-to-administer internal product security features or through an external security manager such as RACF or CA-ACF2
Automates DBCTL with AutoOPERATOR
The powerful AutoOPERATOR Rules Processor can react to address messages received from DBCTL and exception messages from MainView for DBCTL.
- Uses a rules processor to issue commands directly to DBCTL or drive REXX to carry out actions and conduct further analysis
- Uses an automation engine that has full access to the data available from MainView
- Drives other MainView functions, such as starting a trace or modifying monitor attributes
- Includes displays of DBCTL objects that support action services to modify the status of an object
Simplifies the look and feel of DBCTL with MainView Explorer™
The MainView Explorer product:
- Provides complete access to DBCTL and other MainView products via a Web browser from any desktop
- Uses charts, active status icons, trees and other graphical displays to show non-technical personnel what is happening to their OS/390 systems in terms that are easily understood
- Shields users from the complexity of OS/390 by plugging directly into the MainView databus performing the complicated analysis for them and by providing direction on any actions that should be taken
- Contains a Web-ready GUI that gives a wide range of users the ability to see performance-related information and make informed decisions about OS/390 systems, subsystems, transactions and workloads
- Allows customers to extract information from their OS/390 environment and bring it to the desktop, freeing them from the limitations of OS/390 manipulation and reporting capabilities
Builds on the power of MainView
Industry-leading customers in all major markets worldwide have used the MainView solution to manage their DBCTL systems. MainView for DBCTL is part of the MainView product family, which offers closely integrated solutions and advanced functionality for monitoring, managing and automating traditional and Parallel Sysplex environments.