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BMC MAINVIEW for IMS Online

 

Business Challenge

IMS, the world's fastest and most popular database and transaction management system, has evolved into the open distributed client/server and object-oriented environment that today encompasses web technologies. Processing a common workload in this multi-system environment presents unique challenges in systems management and performance monitoring. As the IMS environment has become increasingly complex, organizations need a solution to monitor and manage all IMS activity, regardless of the IMS configuration or the number of systems involved.

Business Need

  • Costly IMS systems outages need to be prevented
  • Organizations must ensure that critical applications are available and performing at optimum level
  • IMS problems need to be identified and resolved before they can impact end-user service levels
  • Reliable, comprehensive data monitoring is needed to help prevent undetected performance bottlenec
  • IMS performance must be well monitored to ensure that changes do not affect data access speed

Our Solution

MAINVIEW for IMS Online offers the number one solution for managing and monitoring IMS workloads. It helps organizations achieve their goals by ensuring the availability, performance, and throughput of mission critical IMS business applications. It simplifies IMS management by providing the same interface for managing traditional implementations and sophisticated data-sharing groups, such as Parallel Sysplex. MAINVIEW for IMS Online also helps to identify and correct IMS system problems easily and effectively.

Key Features & Benefits

  • Serves as a single solution for managing traditional and data sharing environments
  • Quickly identifies and resolves IMS systems
  • Provides abundant, detailed information about all IMS resources and activity
  • Integrates with MAINVIEW for OS/390, DB2, CICS, IP, VTAM, and MQSeries using a single interface
  • Is easy to install, customize, maintain, and operate

 DOCUMENTATION 
Brochure
  • BMC Educational Services (pdf)
  • BMC Database Management for IMS (pdf)
  • MAINVIEW for z/OS Brochure (pdf)
  • BMC Mainframe Solutions (pdf)
  • BSM Overview Brochure (pdf)
  • Business Service Management - Put Business Before Technology - Russian (pdf)
Datasheet
  • BMC System Performance Family for IMS (pdf)
  • MAINVIEW for IMS (htm) (pdf)
Success Story
  • USI streamlined and automated its newly consolidated enterprise, using BMC MAINVIEW products (pdf)
White Paper
  • Cost Savings vs Cost Effectiveness: BMC Software Customers Underscore the Value of IMS Management Solutions (pdf)
  • BMC MAINVIEW Advantage - 2005 (htm) (pdf)
  • Analyzing Transaction Response Time Using BMC MAINVIEW for IMS (pdf)
  • Swing into Business Service Management - Seven Strategies (pdf)
 
 
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Related Links
White Paper: "Taming Complex Transaction Management - System Management in a Rapidly Changing World"
Article Reprint: NetworkWorld
Article Reprint: Computerworld
 



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