MAINVIEW® for CICS

Key benefits

Business challenge

Proactively managing and automating the CICS enterprise can be challenging. It requires tools that are tightly integrated with other products in your environment to save time and improve productivity. Data centers need the capability to use a single tool for monitoring, management, alert notification and automation for CICS and CICSPlex environments.

BMC Software solution

The MAINVIEW for CICS product from BMC Software brings new capabilities to CICS system management by linking advanced automation capabilities with performance management for traditional CICS and Parallel Sysplex environments. It offers improved availability, recoverability, and service for all users. Through its tightly integrated components, troubleshooting is quick and easy. MAINVIEW increases CICS availability by providing:

MAINVIEW for CICS is fully integrated with:

Parallel Sysplex support

MAINVIEW for CICS provides a comprehensive, cost-effective solution for CICS system management in a CICSPlex environment. Everything is included at one price – no extra cost upgrades or hardware are required. MAINVIEW for CICS also offers advanced Sysplex-ready management capabilities

Single System Image (SSI)

MAINVIEW offers Single System Image to effectively manage your environment – no matter how many regions or separate images it contains.

Improved availability

MAINVIEW for CICS offers a highly integrated approach to manage and automate your enterprise by providing advanced, comprehensive problem-solving capabilities. It increases throughput and optimizes availability.

Enhanced productivity

MAINVIEW for CICS increases productivity and minimizes training with a consistent user interface for all MAINVIEW products. It uses multi-window capabilities and point-and-shoot navigation to start solving CICS application performance problems right away and to access other MAINVIEW products. And it pinpoints multi-subsystem application trouble spots.

Application tracing

MAINVIEW for CICS provides application tracing to capture application requests and the associated responses, and converts this data into useful information. You can view the trace detail online or through batch reports.

Time-saving CICS analysis

MAINVIEW for CICS provides an at-a-glance overview of transactions running in a CICSPlex or a single CICS region and shows how each transaction is using CICS resources. It tracks and records the response time of each CICS transaction and displays an overview of the percentage of elapsed time spent in an individual CICS component during the transaction life cycle. MAINVIEW for CICS breaks down the total transaction count and average response time by CICSPlex, CICS workloads, or CICS region. It displays wait or usage times as a percentage for all major suspend categories defined by CICD.

Rapid problem solving

MAINVIEW for CICS solves problems quickly with integrated hierarchical views and hyperlinks to related information. It provides the ability to move throughout the CICS environment to access more detailed information and take corrective actions to solve performance problems. You can also move directly to other MAINVIEW products in the enterprise to investigate and resolve cross-system performance problems. MAINVIEW for CICS offers an intuitive menu system to minimize the number of commands and allows users to access information quickly.

MAINVIEW for CICS provides automatic detection regarding:

Comprehensive CICS solution

MAINVIEW for CICS is the most comprehensive solution available for monitoring and managing CICS. It supports all CICS releases, alleviating time-consuming migration issues from one CICS level to another. It provides more features and functionality with less overhead than other solutions.

The BMC Software MAINVIEW AutoOPERATOR™ for CICS and Energizer for CICS products provide even more automation, management, and tuning services to ensure that your CICS environment operates optimally.

Software requirements

Builds on the power of MAINVIEW

Industry-leading customers in all major markets worldwide have used the MAINVIEW solution to manage their CICS systems. MAINVIEW for CICS 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.

About BMC Software

BMC Software, Inc. [NYSE: BMC], is the leading provider of enterprise management solutions. The company focuses on Assuring Business Availability® for its customers by helping them proactively improve service, reduce costs and increase value to their business. BMC Software solutions span enterprise systems, applications and databases. Founded in 1980, BMC Software has offices worldwide and is a member of the S&P 500, with fiscal year 2002 revenues of approximately $1.3 billion. Visit http://www.bmc.com to learn more.

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