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BMC MAINVIEW for DB2

 

Business Challenge

The demands and complexity of today's business environment present organizations with a great challenge to stay in control. Ensuring that e-business applications are available dramatically magnifies this challenge. The increasing demand on data warehousing for data-intensive decision support and business intelligence needs has spurred the evolution of DB2 to become a powerful database server. But the need for high-availability data sharing, increased parallel processing capabilities, and extended options for distributed access also increase the complexity of managing DB2 environments.

Business Need

  • Increase ROI and remain competitive while containing software costs
  • Consolidate legacy and new technologies without adding additional staff to manage
  • Ensure continuous availability of e-business applications
  • Maximize system performance to help avoid unnecessary and costly hardware upgrades

Our Solution

MAINVIEW for DB2 provides the most comprehensive, user-friendly set of monitoring and management tools available for DB2. It is built to meet growing demands and continuous availability challenges. It lets you consolidate legacy and new technologies, turning information into the knowledge needed to manage business. It delivers new functionality to satisfy the business demands for volume and availability. MAINVIEW for DB2 provides a variety of features including full data-sharing support, tuning wizards, customizable displays, multiple displays on one screen, and extended I/O analysis.

Key Features & Benefits

  • Manages all DB2 implementations from the simplest to the most complex DB2 configurations
  • Provides a single interface to take proactive control of the DB2 environment
  • Provides the most comprehensive, user-friendly set of monitoring tools available for DB2
  • Manages any number of DB2 systems across multiple locations
  • Monitors DB2 to catch degradation, issue early warnings and drive automation to manage exceptions

 DOCUMENTATION 
Brochure
  • BMC Software & IBM: Engaged In Your Success (pdf)
  • BMC Business School Course Catalog (pdf)
  • MAINVIEW for z/OS Brochure (pdf)
  • BMC Educational Services (pdf)
  • Business Service Management - Put Business Before Technology - Russian (pdf)
  • DB2 UDB Family Reference Guide Book Version 8 (pdf)
  • DB2®9 for z/OS Reference Guide (pdf)
  • BSM Overview Brochure (pdf)
  • BMC Mainframe Solutions (pdf)
  • BMC Software Solution for PeopleSoft (pdf)
  • BMC Database Management for DB2 (pdf)
Datasheet
  • BMC System Performance Family for DB2 z/OS (pdf)
  • MAINVIEW for DB2 (pdf)
Success Story
  • Unisys West achieves 99 percent system availability and reduces IT management costs by 50 percent using PATROL (pdf)
  • USI streamlined and automated its newly consolidated enterprise, using BMC MAINVIEW products (pdf)
White Paper
  • Swing into Business Service Management - Seven Strategies (pdf)
  • DB2 Version 9 - A Perspective (pdf) (htm)
  • BMC MAINVIEW Advantage - 2005 (htm) (pdf)
 
 
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Related Links
Learn about the MAINVIEW education course
White Paper: "Taming Complex Transaction Management - System Management in a Rapidly Changing World"
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